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result of natural hybridisation between P. oleracea and P. rapm. — 

 Dr. Dixey was of opinion that the three specimens in question were 

 certainly not hybrids, and even probably only a variety of P. oleracea ; 

 he pointed out that they differed less from the P. oleracea exhibited 

 than did the series of P. rapce from one another. — Mr. W. J. Lucas 

 showed three specimens of Euborellia mcesta. Gene, received on 

 April 3rd from Hyeres, from Dr. Chapman, with four others of the 

 same species. Both sexes were shown ; but they look rather alike 

 owing to there being little difference in the callipers. E. mcesta is quite 

 black. There are just the rudiments of elytra, but no wings. 

 Antennae dark fuscous, legs partly so, partly black. Mr. Lucas also 

 exhibited a large ant, one of three specimens found this year at 

 Swanage in a bunch of bananas, supposed to have come from Jamaica. 

 The President observed that the specimen belonged to the genus 

 Neoponera, and was probably N. tlieresice, Ford, a Central American 

 species. He added that the genus was a curious one, combining the 

 possession of a sting with the single abdominal node characteristic 

 of the stingiess ants. — Mr. F. Muir exhibited two specimens of the. 

 bat Miniopterus schreibersi, with female Ascoclipteron embedded at the 

 base of the ear. He also showed specimens and enlarged drawings 

 of the male, female, winged and wingless, larva and puparium of the 

 Ascoclip)teron, and read the following note : — " These all came from 

 Amboyna (Dutch East Indies). The male and winged female hatch 

 out as normal imagines, the female, after finding her host, cuts her 

 way under the skin at the base of the ear, and then casts her legs and 

 wings ; her abdomen then develops to an enormous extent, and 

 entirely envelops her head and thorax so that she appears as a 

 ' bottled-shaped ' grub without legs or head. The larvae develop in 

 the uterus in the usual pupiparous manner, and wdien full grown pass 

 out through the vagina and fall to the ground, where they immediately 

 pupate, hatching out as imagines in about thirty to thirty-one days. 

 This species I have named Ascoclipteron speiserianmn, after 

 Dr. Paul Speiser, the authority on this group of flies. I took another 

 species in North Queensland, living on the same species of bat." — 

 Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited, on behalf of Mr. G. B. Oliver, of 

 Wolverhampton, a series of E. hyperanthus bred during January and 

 February, 1911, from ova laid by a Leamington female in July, 1910. 

 The specimens, though rather small, showed a great tendency to 

 produce large spots both on the upper and under side. — Mr. H. J. 

 Turner exhibited living specimens of a longicorn beetle, Agapanthia 

 asjjJiodeli, sent by Dr. Chapman from Hyeres. — Commander Walker 

 observed that he had found it in Malta (the only common longicorn 

 there), and also at Gibraltar in the early spring, and always on 

 asphodel. — George Wheeler, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— May 11th, 1911.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Messrs. Harrison and Main exhibited a long series of 

 Aplecta nchulosa and its varieties ; a bred series from robsoni male 

 and thompsoni female which did not conform to the anticipated 

 Mendelian proportions. Twenty-six per cent, were grey, forty-two 

 per cent, robsoni, and thirty-two per cent, thompsoni, instead of fifty 

 per cent, robsoni and fifty per cent, thompsoni. — Messrs. R. Adkin, 



