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and markings went, but which, when the insect was alive, were so 

 closely applied to each other as to look like one normal wing, till by 

 blowing between them, or in some other way, they were separated. 

 — Mr. F. Merrifield, some pod-like galls found on a terebinthine shrub 

 in the limestone region of Auvergne. — ^Mr. Norman H. Joy, the black 

 variety of Bledius tanrus, Germ,, taken at Wells, Norfolk, August, 1904 ; 

 Bledius femoralis, Gyll, from Wokingham, Berks, — a species that has 

 not been taken in the British Isles for over fifty years ; Polydrusus 

 sericeiis, Schall., from Hampshire; Nenraphes carinatns, Mul., from 

 Bradfield, near Reading ; a small form of DyscJiiriiisjxditus, Dej., taken 

 by Canon Fowler at Bridlington, and himself at Wokingham ; and a 

 Ehizotror/us (? species) taken in some numbers flying by day near 

 Streatley, Berks, August, 1904. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, some preparations 

 of the scent of male Pierine butterflies, and read a note descriptive of 

 the same. — Mr. H. Turner, living examples of the larva of Phoro- 

 desma smaragdaria, which he had met with in some numbers on the 

 Essex marshes while searching for Coleophorid larvffi. He also con- 

 tributed notes on tlie life-histories, and exhibited living larvae and 

 cases of several Coleophorids, including C. vihicella, a species only 

 recorded from a few English localities. Mr. Gilbert J. Arrow read a 

 paper on " Sound Production in the Lamellicorn Beetles." Professor 

 Christopher Aurivillius, F.M.Z.S., communicated a paper on " New 

 Species of African StriphnapterygidtB, Xutodontidce, and CkrysapalonidcB 

 in the British Museum." Mr. A. H. Swinton communicated a paper 

 on " The Droughts and Weather, and Insect Increase and Migration." 

 Mr. E. Ernest Green communicated a paper on " Some New Mosquitoes 

 from Ceylon," by Frederick V. Theobald, M.A. — H. Rowland-Beown, 

 Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 July lith, 1904. — Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Stouell exhibited two series of Triphmia fimbria, one of light forms 

 and the other of dark forms, bred in two successive years from New 

 Forest larvs ; and a series of Lcclia ccenosa from various old collections. 

 — Mr. Enock, on behalf of Mr. Newman, living hybrid larvfe from male 

 Notodonta ziczac and female N. dromedariiis, with typical larvae for 

 comparison. — Mr. Priske, examples of the Coleoptera Apoderm coryU, 

 PJiyiichites (Bqiiatus, and Otiorrhynchus sulcatus, all from High 

 Wycombe. 



July 28th. — Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Percy Richards, of Kingston Hill, was elected a member. — Mr. 

 Enock, for Mr. Newman, exhibited a cocoon of Eutricha quercifolia, in 

 situ. — Mr. Edwards, specimens of VolucelU bombylans and F. pellucms 

 from Leatherhead, taken at the Field Meeting on July 9th. — Mr. West 

 (Greenwich), a large number of insects collected at Great Yarmouth 

 from June 13th to 25th, comprising eighty-four species of Coleoptera, 

 eighteen species of Hemiptera, and three species of Teuthredinidae. 

 Among the Coleoptera were Donacia dentipes, D. thalassina, D. simplex, 

 D. vulgaris, D. sericea, Galeruca calmariensis, Polydrusus confusiis, and 

 Scirtes hemisphcericus. Among the Hemiptera were PlagiognatJms puli- 

 carius, P. saltitans, and the rare Pcecilocyfus vulneratns, a species 

 recently added to the British list. 



