340 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited a remarkably small and dark variety of 

 Samia Cecropia, Linn., bred by M. Alfred Wailly. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited an Aphis from apple, and a large 

 Aphid'ms bred therefrom, the cocoon of the parasite being formed underneath 

 the body of the Aphis. Also, on behalf of the Rev. F. A. Walker, three 

 dragonflies, captured in the island of Rhoda, opposite Cairo. Mr. M'Lachlan 

 identified these as a male Crocotheinis enjthraa, Brulle, and a pair of 

 Trithemis ruhrinervis, Selys. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited upwards of sixty specimens of Hemiptera, 

 captured at Headley Lane on January 14th last. The collection included 

 the following species: — Metacanihus punctipes, Germ., Tropistcthus holo- 

 sericeus, Hahn, Peritrochus puncticeps, Thorns., Dnjmus sylvaticus, Fabr., 

 Sty/fiiocoris sabulosus, Schill., Cymus claviculus, Fall., C.glandicolor, Hahn, 

 Monanthia costata, Fabr., M. canlui, Linn., Acalypta parvula, Fall., 

 Piezostethiis curxitans, Fall., and Anthocoris sarothamni, D. & S. 



The Secretary, on behalf of Mr. Samuel Stevens, exhibited specimens 

 of Aiidrena fulva, Schr., and read a note referring to their destructive 

 habits to a garden-lawn at Upper Norwood, "by burrowing in the grass 

 and throwing up small mounds of mould all over the lawn." Mr. M'Lach- 

 lan and Mr. Waterhouse said they had been consulted as to means of 

 remedying similar evils caused by this bee, and Mr. Waterhouse further 

 remarked that it was particularly abundant this spring in his own garden 

 at Wandsworth. 



Mr. A. S. Olliff exhibited a new species of Ilelota, an Eastern Asian 

 genus, collected in Angola by Dr. Welwitsch ; he proposed to describe it 

 under the name Helota africana. Mr. Olliff said tliat Lord Walsingham 

 had pointed out to him a similar and equally unexpected case of geographical 

 distribution in the genus Deuterocopiis of Zeller, belonging to the Ptero- 

 jihoridiB, which up to this time had only been known from Java, and of which 

 he has lately received an undescribed species from Bathurst, West Africa. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited specimens of Isosoma orchidearum, Westw., 

 bred from insect-affected shoots of Cattleya Triance, sent to him by Mr. 

 R. P. Percival, of Southport. The affected shoots were exhibited, also 

 specimens of swollen rootlets which bore evidence of insect attack, but from 

 which at present nothing had been bred. Mr. Fitch remarked that he still 

 believed the Isosoma to be parasitic on some other insect, which was the 

 destructive species — probably some dipteron, because the seven specimens 

 of the Isosoma bred had emerged from one small hole in a shoot (exhibited). 

 Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a note, by Mr. A. R. Grote, on the 

 North American genus Hemileuca. 



Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a paper, " On the Lepidopterous genus 

 Coajtia," remarking on the two already known species (C DurvUlei, Boisd., 

 and C. chlorosoma, Butl.), and describing a new species (C. Veitchii) some- 

 what intermediate in character between them.— E. A. Fitch, Hon. Sec. 



