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which I believe to be by far the best plan for all larvse which do not 

 enter the earth to pupate ; and if Mr. Oldaker has not tried that plan, 

 I would suggest that he should do so next time he has ova of these 

 two or any other "thorns." — (Rev.) Chas. F. Thornewill ; Calverhall 

 Vicarage, Whitchurch, Salop, Jan. 7th, 1903. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Februari/ Ath, 1903. — Pro- 

 fessor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. (President), in the chair.— 

 The President announced that he had appointed the Rev. Canon 

 Fowler, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S. , 

 and Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., as Vice-Presidents for the 

 Session 1903-1904.— Mr. T. Ashton Lofthouse, of the Croft, Linthorpe, 

 Middlesbrough, was elected a Fellow of the Society. — Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman exhibited two male specimens of Orina tristisyar. smaragdina, 

 taken at Pino, Lago Maggiore, on May 30th, 1902, still ahve ; and 

 living larvfe of Crinopteryx familulla, second generation, bred from the 

 egg at Reigate, the parent moths having been taken at Cannes in 

 February, 1901.— The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited, with drawings of 

 the abnormal parts, an hermaphrodite of Eucera longicornu, Linn., 

 showing one female antenna normal, and one male antenna remarkably 

 shortened and with the joints greatly dilated ; the clypeus and labrum 

 one half white (the male character), and the other half black as in the 

 female. In the abdomen and legs the female character predominated, 

 but one half of the apical segments and genitalia seemed to be male. In 

 the discussion of hermaphroditism which followed. Dr. Sharp stated that 

 Father Wasman had announced the discovery that in certain Diptera, 

 parasites of Termites, the individual commences its imago life as a male, 

 and ends as a female — a phenomenon entirely new to entomology, 

 though paralleled in some other groups. — Mr. R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 

 exhibited a living example of Chnjsopa vulgaris, showing the manner 

 in which this species, which is ordinarily bright green, assumes a 

 brownish colour, the abdomen being often marked with reddish spots 

 in hibernating individuals. — Mr. W. J. Lucas submitted specimens of 

 Miris calcaratus, and some fruit of a grass, swept up together by Mr. 

 W. J. Ashdown, on the canal side near Byfieet, on July 14th, 1902. 

 The similarity of form and colouring constituted a probable case of 

 protective resemblance. — Major Neville Manders exhibited two speci- 

 mens of an undescribed species of Atella from Ceylon ; and remarked 

 that it was a very local insect, only found in the Nitre Cave district, 

 one of the localities most remote from civilization in the island. It 

 was probably a well-marked local race of A. aleippe, but easily distin- 

 guished from any known species of the genus by the apex of the fore 

 wing being entirely black. — Mr, F. B. Jennings exhibited British 

 specimens of two species of Hemiptera-Heteroptera, viz. two females 

 of Drymus pilipefi, Fieb., a rare species of the family Lygaeidje, which 

 were found among dead leaves on a hillside near Croydon in September, 

 1901 ; and the black aberration of Miris lavigatus, L., recorded by him 

 in the E. M. M. for 1902. The species of Miris and the allied genus 

 of Capsidee, Megalocercca, are ordinarily grass-green, or pale yellowish. 



