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April 26th.— Mv. W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Eowden, of Kingston Hill, was elected a member. Mr. Buckstoue 

 exhibited specimens of Triphcena fimbria , bred from ova ; the larvae had 

 been fed exclusively on cabbage. Mr. Turner, Longicorn Coleoptera : 



(1) Saperda popahiea, taken by Mr. Day at Carlisle; (2) Rha(jium 

 bifasciatHDi, from the New Forest ; (3) Clijtiis vujsticiis, from Brockley ; 

 (4) C. arietis, from Lewisham ; together with larvaB of (1) CaUimorpha 

 dominula, from Deal, where they were comparatively scarce ; (2) 

 Bomhyx quercus, hom'Ded^., on garden rose ; f3j Pericallia syringaria, 

 from Bexley. Mr. Moore, a Kaflir necklace made of ants' "eggs " ; these 

 so-called eggs are really the encysted pupte of a species of Coccid, of 

 subterranean habits, belonging to the genus Margarudes. Mr. Lucas, a 

 specimen of the dragonfly, Synrpetriwi vxdgatum, a male, taken by Mr. 

 Hamm, of Oxford, at Torquay on Aug. 15th, 1899 ; this is the second 

 authenticated British specimen. Mr. Adkin, a fine bred series oiFyiigonia 

 fuscantaria, from Lewes ova, and stated it was easy to breed when 

 sleeved. Mr. Clark reported that he had received ova of Gonepteryx 

 rhmnni which had been found deposited on the stems of the buckthorn. 

 Mr. Harrison reported having seen a dragonfly, Lihelhda quadrimaculata , 

 on the wing at Easter, 



May 10th. — The President in the. chair. Mr. Adkin exhibited a 

 series of Cahera e.vanthemaria, showing variation in the relative positions 

 of the transverse lines. 



May 24<A. — The President in the chair. Mr, Clark exhibited a 

 sawfiy cocoon of a most delicate fibrous structure. Mr, Enock 

 gave a series of interesting notes, illustrated with admirable lantern- 

 slides, on various incidents in insect life, including (1) a long series of 

 slides showing all stages in the closing of the wings in the earwig ; 



(2) a series showing the gradual unfolding and growth of the wings in 

 Papilio machaon ; and (3) all stages in the emergence and hardening 

 process of JEschna cyanea. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



KuHLGATZ. FAne neiie Plata spidinen-Gattung aus Deutsch Ost-Afriha mit 

 geiveihar tiger VerUingerung der Jwja beim Mdnnchen sowie iiber einige 

 der ndchsten Verwandten dieser neuen Gattung (S. B. Ges. Naturf. 

 Freunde, Berlin, 1900, pp. 120-135, figs. 1-3). [Rhynchota.] 



Herr Theodor Kuhlgatz describes an extraordinary Coptosomatine 

 (Cimicidse), closely allied to Platnspis, from German East Africa, 

 which he terms FAapheozygum goetzei, gen. et sp. n. In the male the 

 juga (the lateral portions of the dorsal part of the head) are enormously 

 elongate, being much longer than the thorax and abdomen together ; 

 each jugum is forked near the apex. Such an appearance is common 

 enough among Coleoptera, but in Rhynchota very rare. The female 

 is normal in structure, though an abnormal specimen of this sex is 

 figured, in which the left jugum is distinctly longer than the right ; 

 this the author considers may perhaps be an hermaphrodite. The 

 paper concludes with an analytical table Of the eleven genera of the 

 Plataspis group. — G, W. K. 



