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species. An account of the transformations of a number of these species 

 was also given from Mr. Hocking's notes. 



This meeting closed the session. The next session will commence in 

 November, 1888. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



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



The Hon. Lionel Walter de Rothschild, of Tring Park, Hertfordshire, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society ; and Mr. George Meyer-Darcis was 

 admitted into the Society. 



Mr. Enock exhibited male and female specimens of a spider received 

 from Colonel Le Grice, R.A., who had captured them at Folkestone on 

 the 27th May last. They had been submitted to the Rev. 0. Pickard- 

 Cambridge, F.R.S., who identified them as Pellenes tripunctatus, a species 

 new to Britain. Mr. Enock also exhibited specimens of Merisus destructor 

 (Riley), an American parasite of the Hessian Fly, bred from ISritish 

 specimens of that insect. 



Mr. Wallis-Kew exhibited a number of larvae of Adimonia tanaceti 

 (Fab.), found in Lincolnshire, feeding on Scabious. 



Mr. Porritt exhibited a number of variable specimens of Arctla mendica, 

 bred from a batch of eggs found last year on a species of Rumex near 

 Huddersfield. Mr. Porritt said that this species, in the neighbourhood of 

 Huddersfield, was often more spotted than the typical form, but he had 

 never before seen anything approaching in extent the variation exhibited in 

 these bred specimens. Out of forty-four specimens (twenty-five males and 

 nineteen females) not more than eight were like the ordinary type of the 

 species. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a quantity of Palingenia longicauda from 

 Holland — the largest of the European Ephemerida (Mayflies), and at the 

 same time one of the most local. 



Mr. Jacoby exhibited the following species of Phytophagous Coleoptera 

 from Africa and Madagascar, recently described by him in the ' Trans- 

 actions ' of the Society, viz.: — Lema laticollis, Cladocera nigripennis, 

 Oedionychis madagascarlensis, Blepharida intermedia, B. nigromaculata, 

 Chrysomela madagascariensis, Sagra opaca, Blepharida ornaticollis, B. 

 laterimaculata, Mesodcmta submetallica, Schematizella viridis, Spilocephalus 

 viridipennis, Apophylia smaragdipennis, Aethonea variabilis. 



Mons. Alfred Wailly exhibited a large number of species of Lepidoptera 

 and Coleoptera, recently received by him from Assam, from the West Coast 

 of Africa, and from South Africa. He also exhibited eggs and living larvae 

 of Bombyx cytheraa, and made remarks on the life-history of the species. — 

 H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



