352 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Entomological Society of London. 



June 14, 1884.— J. W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c., President, 

 in the chair. 



Capt. Richard Holt (Heathfield Lodge, Granville Road, Wandsworth, 

 S.W.) and W. F. de Vismes Kane, Esq., M.A., M.R.T.A. (Sloperton Lodge, 

 Kingstown, Ireland) were balloted for and elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. G. Coverdale exhibited a box containing many Micro-Lepidoptera 

 and several Macros set, on pith with gum, without pinning, according to 

 his new process, described in the 'Entomologist' for June (xvii. 131). 

 Messrs. Dunning, LI'Lachlan, and Fitch made some remarks thereon. 



Mr. R. M'Lachlan exhibited galls on the roots of various species of 

 Cattleya, similar to those exhibited at the last meeting which produced 

 Isosoma orchidearuvi, Westw., which had been received from the Hon. and 

 Rev. J. T. Boscawen. He also exhibited the extraordinary heliciform 

 lepidopterous larva-cases from East Africa — about 200 miles inland from 

 Zanzibar — which he had described and figured in Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxi., 

 p. 1 ; also, from the same locality, several other cases of Psychida, one 

 species bearing a remarkable resemblance to a Dentalium ; and an egg-case, 

 probably of a Mantis, very similar to those exhibited at the last December 

 meeting but not identical, these being neither so large nor so delicate and 

 transparent. 



Mr. M'Lachlan also exhibited nearly 100 microscopic slides of British 

 Aphides, prepared by the late Francis Walker in 1847, which had been pre- 

 sented to him by Mr. P. Hubert Desvignes, son of the late Mr. Peter 

 Dcsvignes, who was one of the original members of the Society ; these 

 slides evinced great care and skill iu microscopic mounting, considering 

 that nearly forty years had elapsed since they were prepared. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited several specimens of Cremastogaster 

 scutellaris, Oliv., captured while running about on the pavement of Church 

 Street, Greenwich. As tliere was a cork importer's in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the capture, and as the ants commonly nested in bark, 

 their presence was not difficult to account for. 



Mr. W^. C. Boyd exhibited some remarkably fasciated strawberry plants 

 from his garden at Cheshuut ; it was thought that the attacks of a 

 Phytoptxis had caused the abnormal growth. 



Mr. W. H. Patton communicated some " Notes on the Classification and 

 Synonymy of Fig-Insects." 



Mr. F. Moore communicated " Descriptions of new species of Indian 

 Lepidoptera Heterocera, mostly from specimens in the British Museum." — 

 E. A. Fitch, Hon. Sec. 



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