PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 3849 
July 6, 1881.—H. T. Srainton, Esq., F.R.S., &e., President, in the 
chair. 
Mr. George Henry (38, Wellington Square, Hastings) was balloted 
for and elected an Ordinary Member of. the Society. Mr. A. 8. Olliff 
(36, Mornington Road, Regent's Park, N.W.) was elected an Annual 
Subscriber to the Society. 
Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited the sexes of Morpho Adonis, Cram.; the 
female of this butterfly apparently had previously been quite unknown. 
Miss E. A. Ormerod exhibited some elm-leaves received from Islay, 
Argyllshire, which were almost bleached, the parenchyma being cleared 
away by minute larve; also several sawfly larve from a meadow at Roch- 
dale, Lancashire, where they were committing extensive ravages ; specimens 
of a sawfly larva from Clitheroe, Lancashire, received with the Noctua 
larvee now so destructive to grass in that district; and specimens of a 
sawfly larva received from Marlborough, Wilts, where it is attacking the 
wheat. Miss Ormerod also exhibited living specimens of the Noctua larvee, 
which lately occurred as a “plague” at Clitheroe, and observed that 
these differed somewhat from the published descriptions of the larva of 
Chare@as graminis. 
Mr. Stainton remarked that he did not with certainty know the larva 
of C. graminis, but believed those now exhibited belonged to that species ; 
with regard to the elm-leaf blotchers, he did not recognise them as 
Micro-Lepidopterous, but thought possibly it was a Coleopterous larva 
attacking them. 
Mr. E. A. Fitch recognised the sawfly larve from Rochdale as belonging 
to the Dolerid@, and said that he had received similar larvee from Romford, 
Hssex, and Huddersfield, Yorkshire; in both localities they were sent as 
doing damage to the grass crops; he also observed how little was known of 
the life-histories of the numerous species of Dolerus. 
The Rey. A. EK. Eaton exhibited drawings by Mr. A. T. Hollick, illus- 
trating some Hphemeride nymphs in Dr. Hagen’s collection. 
Sir Sidney 5. Saunders exhibited several female specimens, with larvee 
and pupa-case of Callostoma fascipennis, Macq., received from Mr. Frank 
Calvert of the Dardanelles ; the larva of this fly lives in the egg-cases of 
locusts and feeds on the eggs. Several of these egg-cases and a young locust 
(Caloptenus italicus), but two days old, which had been bred by Mr. F. 
Enock, were exhibited. 
The Secretary read the report of the Committee appointed at the last 
meeting to enquire into the history of the insect feeding on the locust-eggs 
in the Troad, respecting which a communication had been received from 
the Colonial Office. 
Mr. F. Moore communicated some “ Descriptions of new Asiatic diurnal 
Lepidoptera,” 
