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Exhibitions. 



Mr. Scott exhibited the foUowing Hemiptera, hitherto unknown as British species, 

 viz. : — 



Acetropis carinala, H.-Sch. = Lnpus carinata. Found by Mr. Marshall in the New 

 Forest. 



A. seliculom, Fieb. Also taken by Mr. Marshall in the New Forest. 



Piezostelfius bicolor, Scholtz. [Xyloeoris, H.-Scb.) Taken by himself beneath bark, 

 at Abergavenny, in September last. 



Anihocoris austriacus, Hahn. Beaten from oak trees at Wickham this month. It 

 appears to be a very common species. 



The President exhibited a specimen of a large Noctua, Orodesma apicina, Guen, 

 MSS., found alive in the London Docks, on board a vessel recently arrived from 

 Porto Rico. It was, he remarked, the same species as was exhibited at a former 

 meeting of the Society by Dr. Allchin, and recorded in ' The Entomologist's Weekly 

 Intelligencer' by Messrs. Edmonds and Hodgkinson. The only known specimens have 

 been captured in England. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited two new British species of Phryganidae, viz., Agrypnia 

 picta, Kolen., of which a specimen was taken on Skiddaw in 1859 by Mr. T. Chapman, 

 and Leptocerus fulvus, Rambur, of which many specimens were taken during the 

 month of August at Ruislip, Middlesex, by Mr. P. C. Wormald. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited 6ne examples of Dicranorrhina Layardi from South Africa, 

 and a new species of Paussus from Rangoon. 



Mr. Stevens also brought for distribution amongst the members some specimens of 

 Triplax russica, lately bred from Fungi. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a fine pair of Nonagria Elymi, sent from Stettin. He 

 observed that the species had during the present season been discovered in Britain, and 

 he had exhibited two wasted indigenous examples at the previous meeting of the 

 Society. 



Mr. Stainton also exhibited a male example of Lasiocampa Quercus, received from 

 ! the Rev. F. O. Morris, having the antennae much shorter than usual ; they had not 

 however been subjected to microscopical examination. 



Mr. Bond exhibited examples of Lithosia caniola and Diantboecia capsophila, 

 captured near Dublin by Mr. Barrett. The first-mentioned species was noticed as a 

 native of Britain for the first time by Mr. Henry Doubleday (Zool. 7407). 



Dr. Kuaggs exhibited a Noctua, allied to Hadena protea, but evidently distinct 

 from any known British species, taken by Mr. Barrett near Dublin. He had been 

 unable to identify it with any species contained in the general collection at the British 

 Museum. 



Mr. Brettiugham exhibited a large box of Coleoptera from Assam. 



Professor Westwood exhibited two examples of a large North-American species of 

 Sphex, from the Oxford Museum, the bodies and limbs of which he had lately noticed 

 to be covered with pollen masses. Instances of the adhesion of the anthers of flowers 

 to the heads of insects had been brought before the Society on former occasions, but he 

 had hitherto never seen any instance of the whole insect being covered with them. 



M. F. Walker communicated some notes on the habits of Lipara lucens, Chlorops 

 tarsata, Limnophora mediteroides, and their parasites, with descriptions of the insects, 

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