456 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. A. Phipson exhibited a remarkable variety of Pyrameis cardui taken 
near Basingstoke last August. (See fig.) 
The Secretary then read a note by Mr. Sidney Churchill, of Teheran, 
on Argas Persicus. 
Mr. R. Trimen communicated notes “On the pairing of a Butterfly with 
a Moth in Natal” and “ On a supposed female of Dorylus helvolus (Linn.).” 
Messrs. F. Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin communicated “ A List 
of Diurnal Lepidoptera collected in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, 
Colombia, and the vicinity.” 
August 4, 1880.—J. W. Duxnine, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in 
the chair. 
Sir Sidney Saunders forwarded for exhibition four living specimens of 
Prosopis rubicola, all stylopized females recently bred from larvee extracted 
from briars received from Epirus, each of these small beetles bearing the 
projecting puparium of a male Hylechthrus, and in one instance two of the 
latter, and communicated some notes thereon. 
Miss E. A. Ormerod exhibited a soft, fleshy gall-like formation found 
on Rhododendron ferrugineum at Merton, and believed by Dr. Thomas to 
be a fungoid growth. 
Mr. Fitch stated he had often possessed specimens of this supposed gall, 
and had attempted in vain to breed an insect from them; he was therefore 
disposed to concur in Dr. Thomas's view. 
Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited a specimen of Heptaulacus villosus from 
Box Hill. 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse stated that about five years ago he had taken 
from forty to fifty specimens of this rare beetle in a chalk-pit in Fresh- 
water Bay. 
Mr. H. J. Elwes communicated a paper “ On the Genus Colias,” and 
Mr. W. L. Distant read a paper entitled “Notes on Exotic Rhynchota, 
with descriptions of new species."—R. Metpora, Hon. Secretary. 
