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The President remarked with regard to the gnats from the Kent Water- 
works, exhibited at the last meeting, that Professor Westwood had since 
informed Mr. Douglas that they were only the ordinary Culex pipiens. 
Mr. Slater exhibited certain parasites found on the body of a larva of 
Smerinthus tilig, which Mr. Waterhouse believed to be Uropoda veyetans, 
a species of Acari. 
Mr. W. Warren exhibited the following Lepidoptera, viz. :—Hupithecia 
fraxinata, caught in Regent’s Park ; E. innotata (Hiib.), bred from Artemisia 
maritima ; a variety of Hupithecia satyrata ; a Gelechia, caught in Wicken 
Fen twenty years ago by Mr. Bond, and believed to be a new species ; 
G. fumatella (Dgl.) or celerella (Stn.) from Hayling Island; G. vilella 
(Zell.), bred from larve collected on the Essex coast on mallow; Litho- 
colletis scabiosella (Dgl.), bred from larvee found near Croydon; and Catoptria 
parvulana (Wlk.), bred by Mr. Vine, of Brighton, from Serratula tinctoria. 
He also exhibited larvee of Gelechia vilella. 
Mr. South exhibited specimens of Dicrorampha distinctana (Hein.), 
and stated that he considered it to be merely a variety or local form of 
D. consortana, from which, in the larval stage, it could not be separated. 
Mr. Stevens exhibited a living specimen of Clerus formicarius, recently 
found under the bark of an ash tree in Arundel Park, Sussex. 
Mr. Billups exhibited Chrysis succincta (Linn.), taken by sweeping at 
Chobham on the 28th July last. He stated that this very rare species was 
recorded by Shuckard as having been taken in a sandy lane near Brocken- 
hurst, in the New Forest, and at Blackwater, on the borders of Berks and 
Hants; and he further stated that the late Mr. Frederick Smith had also 
taken two specimens of this species in Hampshire. Mr. Billups also 
exhibited Microphysa elegantula (Baer.), taken at Broadstairs, Kent, on the 
23rd August last. 
The Rev. W. W. Fowler exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Theodore Wood, a 
larva of Langelandia anopthalma (Aubé), a species new to Britain. 
Mr. H. Goss exhibited specimens of Oxygastra Curtisi (Dale), recently 
taken near Christchurch, Hants. He stated that he had met with the 
Species in the same locality in 1878, but had never seen it anywhere else 
in the United Kingdom, nor was he aware of any recent record of its 
capture. Mr. M‘Lachlan observed that the species was taken many years 
ago in Dorsetshire by the late Mr. Dale, but that he knew of no recent 
captures except those recorded by Mr. Goss. He also made some remarks 
as to the distribution of the species on the continent of Kurope. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited a specimen of Dilur meridionalis (Hagen), 
taken by him in July last in the Pyrénées Orientales; also about 150 
examples of the genus Chrysopa from the same district, where these insects 
abounded. Amongst them were C. vulgaris (Schneider), perla (L.), Walkeri 
(Brauer), viridana (Schneider), tenella (Schneider), prasina (Burm.) and 
