240 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. Francis Day read the first of a proposed seiies of observations on 

 Indian Fishes. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



May 2, 1888.— Dr. D. Sharp, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Major J. W. Yerbury, R.A., of the Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, 

 S.W. ; and Mr. P. W. Maclunnon, of Masuri, Western Himalayas, India, 

 were elected Fellows. 



Dr. Philip Brooke Mason exhibited an hermaphrodite specimen of 

 Saturnia carpini from Lincoln, and another specimen of the same species 

 with five wings, bred at Tenby. 



Herr Jacoby exhibited female specimens of Chrysomela japana, collected 

 by Mr. J. H. Leech in Japan, and called attention to a sexual structure in 

 the middle of the abdominal segment. 



Mr. Adkiu exhibited a variety of Eubolia bipuuctaria, taken at Box Hill, 

 in July, 1886. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited, for Dr. Livett, a curious discoloured female 

 specimen of Ornithoptera miuos, Cramer. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. W. Denison-Roebuck, a number of 

 specimens of an exotic species of Bee obtained by the Rev. VV. Fowler, 

 of Liversedge, from split logwood. The cells or pouches were very irregular 

 and rough, and altogether unlike those in the "comb" of any known British 

 species of Bee. 



Dr. J. W. Ellis read a paper entitled " Remarks on the British speci- 

 mens of the (so called) Aphodius melanostictus, Schmidt"; and exhibited 

 a number of specimens and drawings of this species and of Aphodius 

 inqidnatus, F. A discussion ensued, in which Dr. P. B. Mason, Dr. Sharp, 

 Mr. Champion took part, and Dr. Ellis replied. 



Mr. E. Meyrick communicated a paper " On the Pyralidina of the 

 Hawaiian Islands," the materials for which consisted principally of the 

 collection of Lepidoptera Heterocera formed by the Rev. T. Blackburn 

 during six years' residence in the Hawaiian Islands. Mr. Meyrick pointed 

 out that the exceptional position of these islands renders an accurate know- 

 ledge of their fauna a subject of great interest. He stated that of the fifty-six 

 known species of Hawaiian Pyralidina nine had been probably introduced 

 through the agency of man in recent times ; but he believed the remaining 

 forty-seven to be wholly endemic: of these the author referred twenty-six 

 species to the Botydida, twelve to the Scopariadce, four to the Pterophorida, 

 three to the Crambida?, and two to the Phycilidm. Dr. Sharp, Mr. 

 McLachlan, Dr. Mason, and Mr. E. B. Poulton took part in the discussion 

 which ensued. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



