27 (> THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Entomological Society of London. 



June 6, 1888.— Dr. D. Sharp, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. George Meyer Darcis, of 32, Central Hill, Upper Norwood, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. Pascoe brought for exhibition a book of fine plates of Mantidas, 

 drawn by Prof. Westwood, which it had been hoped would have been 

 published by the Ray Society. 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited a species of Hemiptera, Monanthia angustata, 

 H.-S., new to Britain, which he had captured by sweeping, near Cisbiny, 

 Worthing. The insect is rather closely allied to the common Monanthia 

 cardui, L. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a species of Halticidee, which had been sent 

 him by Mr. D. Morris, Assistant Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, who 

 had received them from Mr. J. H. Hart, of the Rotanic Gardens, Trinidad, 

 with a note to the effect that they had attacked young tobacco and egg- 

 plants badly in that island. Mr. Jacoby had, with some reserve, given as 

 his opinion that it might possibly turn out to be Epitrix fuscala, Duv., a 

 species which had been described from Cuba. 



The Rev. H. S. Gorham exhibited a number of beetles lately captured 

 in Brittany, including Diachromus germanus, L., OntJiophagus tmirus, JL., 

 Hister s'uiuatus, 111., and other species which are exceedingly rare, or 

 altogether wanting in Britain, and yet occur very commonly in the North 

 of France. 



Mr. Enoch exhibited specimens of the Hessian Fly bred by himself, 

 and mounted for the microscope. 



Mr. White exhibited living larvae of Endromis versicolora, and 

 remarked that when quite young they are nearly black, owing to being 

 very thickly spotted with that colour; the body-colour is green, and 

 after the second change of skin the spots disappear. Mr. White also 

 exhibited two preserved larvae of Phorodesma smaragdaria, which he had 

 recently taken, and made some remarks concerning the so-called "case' 

 which this insect is said to construct from the leaves of its food-plant, 

 Artemisia maritima. This he did not consider to be really a case, but he 

 had discovered that the larva possessed on its segments certain secretory 

 glands, at the apex of each of which there is a bristly hair; this appears to 

 retain pieces of the plant, which are probably fixed firmly afterwards by 

 means of the secreted fluid. These pieces are very irregularly distributed, 

 and their purpose is evidently protective. 



Mr. Lewis exhibited about three hundred specimens of the genera 

 Hetcerius, Er., and Eretmotus, Mars. The most remarkable of these 

 was Hetcerius acutanguJus, Lewis, discovered last year by Mr. J. J. 

 Walker near Tangier, and were recently taken by him at S. Roche, in 



