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Entomological Society of London. — June 5th, 1901. — The Eev. 

 Canon W. W. Fowler, M.A., President, in the chair. — Mr. G. C. 

 Champion exhibited a male specimen of Odontaus mobilicornis, one of 

 the rarest of British beetles, captured at Woking on May 28th, Mr. 

 Donisthorpe said that the same species had also been taken this year 

 at Bournemouth by Mr. and Mrs. Jackson.— Mr. R. McLachlan ex- 

 hibited four specimens of a curious bug of the genus Henicocephalus, 

 received from Mr. G. V. Hudson, of Wellington, New Zealand; he 

 thought the genus, although of very wide distribution, had not pre- 

 viously been noticed in that country. Mr. Champion said that Henico- 

 cephalus was generally recognized as a type in itself of a family, and 

 Mr. Kirkaldy that it was much commoner than generally supposed. It was 

 probably only an aberrant form of the Keduviidte having no stridulating 

 apparatus on the presternum. — Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited a series of 

 Smerinthus tilice, bred during May, 1900 and 1901, including one male 

 specimen having the right upper wing banded, the left wing with the two 

 ordinary spots ; a banded female ; a male with only one spot ; and a 

 richly coloured female. — Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited imagines, cocoons, 

 pupa-skins, and also water-colour sketches of larvae, reared and drawn 

 by Miss Frances Barrett, at Buntingville, Pondoland, South Africa, 

 including He^peria keitloa, Leucaloa eiigraphica, Liparis pulverea, Leno- 

 dora tnontana, Trahele ochroJeuca, Chilena prompta, Braura lif^niclusa, 

 Ejitricha pithyocampa, Dulichia fasciata, Porela sobria, PJianidophora 

 phedonia, Sphingomorpha chlorea {monteironh) . — Dr. A. Jefferis Turner 

 exhibited specimens of Australian wood-boring Lepidoptera belonging 

 to four different families. They included — Pyralidae : Duddiana 

 xyluryctis. Turn. Gelechidae : Cryptophasafiaoolineata and C. hemipsila, 

 Turn., Maroga mythica, Meyr., M. setiotricha, Meyr., Uzucha borealis, 

 Turn. CossidsB : Diuigeona actinias, Turn., Xylentes pulchra, Pioths., A'. 

 viacleayei, X. nephocosma, Turn. Hepialidse : Chaiagia mirabilis. Roths., 

 C. ramsayi, Scott, and C. cyanochlora, Lower. — Mr. H. Goss exhibited, 

 for Mr. Ernest Ardron, of Colombo, Ceylon, two specimens of a species 

 of Phy Ilium (Phasmidas). They bore an extraordinary resemblance to 

 leaves. He also showed three varieties of the male of Melitcea cinxia, 

 which he had taken on May 27th and 28th at Niton, Isle of Wight. — 

 Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited two new genera and species of 

 Coleoptera, recently described by him in the Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 from Rio Janeiro. One belonged to the aberrant Prisnidfe (Puthuceru^ 

 wagneri] ; the other [Tetraphalerns wagneri) belonged to the Cupesidae, 

 and was remarkable for the form of its head. He also exhibited male 

 and female of the curious Scarabseid, Glyphoderes sterquilinus, West., 

 from North Argentina. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited a glove 

 burnt by discharges of formic acid in the nests of Formica rufa. In 

 connection with the apparatus exhibited at the last meeting to deter- 

 mine the strength of this acid, Professor Poulton said that the dis- 

 charges collected in the tubes fluctuated greatly in strength, the 

 strongest yielding a proportion of sixty to seventy per cent, of 

 anhydrous acid, a drop of which placed by Mr. Holroyd on the back 



