440 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
The Rev. Dr. Walker exhibited, and read notes on, a number of 
Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera, which formed the 
second instalment of the collection he had recently made in Iceland. 
Mr. R. South exhibited a specimen of Luperina testacea, bred from a 
pupa found at the root of a species of Silene at Kastbourne ; also a specimen 
of Luperina Nickerlii, Freyer, caught in Lancashire last August. He also 
exhibited, and read notes on, a long series of Boarmia repandata, bred 
from larve collected in North Devon. Mr. Poulton, Mr. Merrifield, and 
Lord Walsingham took part in the discussion which ensued. 
Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., exhibited a number of Coleoptera collected 
during the past summer in Cobham Park, Kent. Thirty-three species 
were represented, amongst which were the following, viz., Hros minutus, 
Philonthus fuscus, Homalota hepatica, Abreus granulum, Anisotoma grandis, 
Agaricophagus cephalotes, Thalycra sericea, Cryptophagus ruficornis, Platy- 
tarsus setulosus, &e. He also exhibited a living larva of Helops c@ruleus. 
Mr. Jacoby exhibited a curious Phytophagous beetle found by Mr. J. H. 
Leech in the Corea. He stated that he was unable to determine the genus, 
as was also Mr. J. S. Baly, to whom he had submitted the specimen. 
Mr. R. Adkin exhibited specimens of Retinia resinella, received by him 
from Forres. Lord Walsingham remarked that he had never seen the 
species in Scotland, but that it was not uncommon in Germany, and he 
had found it at Hamburgh. 
Mr. W. Dannatt exhibited a male specimen of Papilio Antimachus, 
Drury, from Lukolela, a missionary station about 500 miles from the 
mouth of the Congo. He stated that the species, although very rare, 
had a wide range, as three other specimens of it had been received from 
the Stanley Falls, which were more than 800 miles further up the Congo. 
Lord Walsingham exhibited preserved specimens of the larva and 
imago of Cidaria reticulata, from the Lake District, sent to him by 
Mr. Hodgkinson. 
Mr. W. White stated that as some doubt had been expressed at the last 
meeting as to whether the specimen of Nephronia hippia, Fab., var. g@a, 
Feld., which he then exhibited, was hermaphrodite, he had, with 
Mr. Griffith’s permission, handed the specimen to Mr. G. T. Baker for 
dissection. 
Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited fore wings of the males of Argynnis 
Paphia, A. Adippe, and A. Atlantis, denuded of the scales, in order to show 
that there was no dilatation or thickening of the median nervules and 
submedian nervure in that sex of these species; but that the apparent 
dilatation was produced by a dense mass of scales crowded together on each 
side of the nervules. He also read a short paper on the subject entitled, 
“‘ Notes on the nervules of the fore wings in the males of Argynnis Paphia 
and other species of the genus.” —H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 
