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Museum collection. (2) Rare diptera from Scotland, including (a) 

 Laphria flava, two males from Nethy Bridge ; (b) Chomasyrphus 

 sccBvoides, new to the fauna of Great Britaiu, from the Mound, 

 Sutherland, where it was common on Umbelliferae under fir trees in 

 a damp wood, one female also being taken on the path up Cairngorm, 

 near Glenmore Lodge; (c) Microdon devius ; (d) Chilosia chrysocoina Skt 

 mountain-ash blossom, Nethy Bridge; and (e) Stomphastica flava, two 

 males from Golspie, September, 1900. — Mr. H. K. Donisthorpe 

 exhibited (1) a specimen oiDnisilla canalicidata with the dead body of a 

 Myrviica in its mouth, captured at Chiddingfold on July 17th; (2) 

 specimens of Myrvwdonia collaris and its larva taken in Wicken Feu 

 with M. Imvinodis in August, 1900. — The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited 

 a remarkable hermaphrodite of the bee Podalinus [ = Anthophora) 

 retusm, in which the male characters were confined to the left side of 

 the head and genitalia, the right side of the thorax and the abdominal 

 segments. The antennae and hind (pollinigerous) legs were those of a 

 female, and the genitalia half of each sex. — Dr. Chapman exhibited 

 beetles of the genus Orina, and remarked on the fact that while some 

 were viviparous others were oviparous, in some cases of the former 

 the larvfe being developed in the ovaries. — Mr. H. J. Elwes exhibited a 

 collection of Lepidoptera from Greece, taken this season in conjunction 

 with Miss Fountaine, in the Morea and in the Parnassus region. He 

 remarked that the country about Athens was much dried up and 

 overrun with goats and herds, and that therefore the lepidopterous 

 fauna there was poor. On the south side of the Gulf of Corinth, 

 however, the Pieridi were well represented, and out of eight European 

 species seven were taken in three weeks. The spring and summer 

 broods of Pieris krueperi this year were flying together — an unusual 

 occurrence, possibly due to the rainy spring. Among other notable 

 species, albinos of Colias heldreichi (female) were taken, G. rhamni var. 

 farinosa, and Lycmia ottomanus, while Mr. Elwes further expressed his 

 opinion that a Lycsena taken as a var. of L. semiaryus was a distinct 

 species. Miss Fountaine mentioned in connection with these exhibits 

 that Colias heldreichi swarmed on Mount Kelmos from 4000 to 7000 

 feet ; and Mr. Elwes remarked that Miss Fountaine was the first 

 British collector known to have captured this insect. — Mr. H. H. May 

 exhibited a variety of Strenia clathrata taken on the South Downs, in 

 which the ground colour of the wings was of a uniform dark chocolate 

 brown, not unlike Syrichthus alveolus on the wing. — Mr. F. Enock 

 exhibited a male bee, Stelis aterrima, one of the bees parasitic in the 

 nests of Osmia fulviventris, usually considered a rare insect. The 

 specimen was taken on August 14th, 1900, hi a garden at Holloway. 

 Mr. Enock announced that be had also taken O./ulviventris, its host, 

 in the same metropolitan locality. — Papers were communicated on 

 " Descriptions of new species and a new genus of South American 

 Eumolpidag, with remarks on some of the genera," by Mr. M. Jacoby ; 

 and on "Lepidoptera Heterocera from Northern China, Japan, and 

 Corea" (Part IV.), by Mr. J. H. Leech, B.A., F.Z.S., &c.— C. J. 

 Gahan and H. Rowland Brown, Hon. Sees. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 June 28th, 1900. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, President, in the chair. Mr. Kemp 



