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interesting species, of which a great part were not alone inhabitants of 
Keuador, but had been found either in Peru or the Amazon Regions. 
A paper by Messrs. F. D. Godman and O. Salvin was read, in which 
they gave the descriptions of some supposed new species of butterflies 
collected by Mr. Andrew Goldie, at a place some thirty miles in the interior 
from Port Moresby, New Guinea.—P. L. Sciater, Secretary. 
EntomoLocicaL Soctnty or Lonpon. 
October 6, 1880.—H. T. Srarnron, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 
Sir Arthur Scott, of Birmingham, and 97, Eaton Square, W., and 
Mr. Frank Edward Robinson, of 10, Little Clarendon Street, Oxford, were 
balloted for and elected ordinary Members. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan stated that last year (Proc. Ent. Soc., 1879, p. xliii) he 
had exhibited specimens of Anthocoris nemorum, an Hemipterous insect, 
which, under the name of the “ needle-nosed flea,” had been supposed by 
a correspondent residing near Canterbury to be damaging the hops in that 
neighbourhood. At the time of exhibiting the specimens he had expressed 
the opinion that this insect was not the true culprit, its habits being probably 
carnivorous, and he had recently heard from the same correspondent that 
the hops were much less attacked this year, and that a small larva had 
been found in the cones on careful examination. Specimens of this larva 
were now exhibited, Mr. M‘Lachlan considering them to be those of some 
fly, and further expressing his belief that the Awthocoris was in search of 
this Dipterous larva, and was thus of service to the hop-growers. 
Sir Sidney Saunders exhibited a series of apterous females of the new 
species of Scleroderma adverted to at the previous meeting, which he had 
obtained from a number of cocoons closely connected together within the 
empty cell of a Raphiglossa in briars from Epirus. He also explained various 
circumstances connected with their structure and habits, which, together 
with a full description of the species, he proposes to bring before the Society 
in a separate form. 
The Rev. E. N. Geldart, who was present as a visitor, exhibited and 
made remarks upon a variety of Argynnis selene, captured on July 5th 
between Reigate and Betchworth. 
Mr. KE. A. Fitch exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Theodore Wood, a specimen 
of Acronycta meyacephala, with ouly two wings, having been found in this 
state on a tree trunk. 
Mr. Ralfe, who was present as a visitor, exhibited a specimen of Vanessa 
antiopa, taken on Wimbledon Common, August 24th, 1880; also a specimen 
of Acontia solaris from Eastbourne, captured August 12th, 1880, and a very 
bleached specimen of Plusia gamma, received from some dealer, and of 
doubtful history. 
