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like Pyrale from South America. — Mr. Step, specimens and a series 

 of photographs of the growth and development of the Myxogaster, 

 Brefeldia maxima found by him at Horsley, and a cluster of oak 

 galls Gynips kollari from which birds had systematically extracted 

 the tenant larvae. — Dr. Hodgson, long series of varied forms of 

 M. aurinia of many localities. — Mr. West called attention to the 

 drawer of the Society's type collection which he was exhibiting, and 

 to which, while rearranging, he had added some sixty species of 

 Coleoptera from his own collection. — Mr. Priske showed a number 

 of slides illustrative of the life-history of the glow-worm, which Mr. 

 Main and he were observing, and read notes on what they had done 

 so far. — Mr. Lucas read a paper: "Notes on the Natural Order 

 Neuroptera," and showed a large number of lantern slides to 

 illustrate his remarks. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Bep. Secretary. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Annual 

 Meeting held at the Eoyal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, 

 December 19th, 1910, Mr. E. Newstead, M.Sc, F.E.S., Vice- 

 President, in the chair. — The Eeports of the Council and Hon. 

 Treasurer were read and adopted, and the following members w-ere 

 elected as officers and Council for the ensuing year, viz. ■ — President, 

 S. J. Capper, F.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents, W. J. Lucas, B.A. ; C. E. 

 Stott; Claude Morley, F.Z.S.; P. F. Tinne, M.A., M.B. ; Geo. 

 Arnold, M.Sc. ; Treasurer, Dr. J. Cotton ; Secretaries, H. E. Sweet- 

 ing and Wm. Mansbridge ; Librarian, F. N. Pierce ; Council, E. J. B. 

 Sopp, F.E.Met.S. ; Wm. Webster, M.E.S.A.L; Wm. Mallinson ; 

 W. T. Mellows ; L. H. Lister ; G. M. Taylor, M.A. ; C. B. Williams ; 

 E. T. Cassal, M.E.C.S., L.S.A. ; O. Whittaker; E. Wilding; and 

 L. West, M.I.M.E. — Mr. Eobert Newstead, the retiring Vice- 

 President, delivered the Address, which was entitled " The Taxo- 

 nomic Value of the Genital Armature in the Tsetse Flies (Genus 

 Glossina)." He stated that he had made a careful examination of all 

 the hitherto described species of the genus Glossina, which had not 

 only revealed some very striking morphological characters, but had 

 led to the discovery of three hitherto undescribed species, Glossina 

 submorsitans, Newst., G. brevipalpis, Newst., and G. fuscipes, Newst., 

 and also to the re-establishment of Bigot's G. grossa. The scheme 

 of classification adopted was based entirely upon the taxonomic 

 characters of the male armature, which are the true and almost only 

 natural anatomic elements that can at present be found in these 

 insects. He had found that the species fell into three very striking 

 and distinct groups, each being separated by very trenchant charac- 

 ters. These are. Group I. {the fusca group). — This division includes 

 the four largest species of the genus : G. fusca, Walker ; G. grossa. 

 Bigot, which have a Western distribution ; G. longipennis, Corti ; and 

 G. brevipalpis, Newst., occurring chiefly on the eastern side of the 

 continent (Africa). In all of these species the claspers are quite 

 free, there being no membrane stretching between them ; the distal 

 extremities of these appendages have either a single large and 

 bluntly pointed tooth-like extension, or they are bluntly bidentate ; 

 the harpes in all cases being markedly difi'erent in their morpho- 

 logical characters. Group II. (the palpalis group). — To this division 



