196 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Entomological Society of London. 



April 4, 1888. — Dr. David Sharp, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



The Rev. J. H. Hodson, B.A., of Torquay, Devon ; Mr. A. J. Croker, 

 of New Cross, S.E. ; Mr. G. C. Griffith, of Cotham, Bristol ; and Mr. Albert 

 H. Jones, of Eltharu, Kent, were elected Fellows. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited a large number of insects lately received from 

 Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, K.G.M.G., F.R.S., of Melbourne, which had 

 been collected by Mr. Sayer on Mount Obree and the adjoining ranges in 

 New Guinea, during Mr. Cuthbertson's recent expedition there under the 

 direction of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia. The collection 

 comprised about 240 species of Coleoptera, 150 species of Lepidoptera, 

 48 species of Hemiptera, and a few species of Diptera, Hymenoptera, and 

 Orthoptera. The Lepidoptera included twenty species of butterflies 

 belonging to the genera Calliplaa, Chanapa, Hamadryas, Melanitis, 

 Mycalesis, Hypocysta, Tenaris, Hypolimnas, Cyrestis, Neptis, Acrcea, Dan is, 

 Pithicops, Appias, Ornithoptera, and Eurycus. 



Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., exhibited, and made remarks on, about 

 sixty specimens — no two of which were alike — of a species of butterfly 

 belonging to the genus Hypolimnas, all of which had been canght by 

 Mr. Woodford near Suva, Viti-Levu, Fiji, on one patch of Zinnias. 



Mr. H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., exhibited, on behalf of Mr. G. C. Bignell, 

 cases of Thyridopteryx ephemermformis, Haworth, collected near Charleston, 

 U.S.A. Mr. Stainton said he hoped Mr. Bignell would not introduce this 

 pest into England. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited, and read notes on, about twenty species 

 of South African dragonflies lately received from Mr. Roland Trimen, 

 F.R.S., of Cape Town. Mr. Kirby said the collection included some new 

 species. 



Mr. A. Sich exhibited a bred specimen of a variety of Plusia gamma. 



Mr. Goss read a letter from Mr. Bignell, correcting a statement made 

 by Mr. Poulton at the March meeting of the Society, to the effect that the 

 variety Valezina of the female of Argynnis paphia did not occur in Devon- 

 shire. Mr. Bignell said that the var. Valezina was included in Mr. Reading's 

 'Catalogue of Devonshire Lepidoptera'; and further that he had himself 

 taken specimens of this variety in Bickleigh Vale, Devon. 



Mr. Waterhouse read a paper entitled " Additional Observations on 

 the Tea-bugs [Helopeltis) of Java," and exhibited a number of specimens 

 of these insects. He said that the species infesting the Cinchona in 

 Java was supposed to have been introduced from Ceylon in tea, but 

 that he had discovered that the species on the Tea and on Cinchona in 

 Java were distinct, and that both species were distiuct from Helopeltis 

 Antonii of Ceylon. 



