394 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. Staintou remarked that the female of Zelleria hepariella had 

 until lately been considered a distinct species, and was known as Zelleria 

 inslgnipennella, but directly Mr. Elisha began breeding the insect its 

 identity with Z. hepariella was established. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited specimens of Crambus alpifiellus, C. contaminellus, 

 Lita semidecandriella, L. marmorea (dark forms), and L. blandulella (a new 

 species), Doryphora palustrella, and Depressaria Yeatiana, all collected at 

 Deal during last July and August. 



Mr. Stainton observed that Cramhus alpinellus was so named from the 

 earliest captures of the species having been made on the lower parts of the 

 Alps, but that it had since been found on the low sandy ground of North 

 Germany, and its capture at Deal quite agreed with what was now known 

 of the distribution of the species in Germany. It was first recorded as a 

 British species by Dr. Knaggs in 1871, from two specimens taken at 

 Southsea by Mr. Moncreaff. Mr. Stainton further observed that he had 

 named Mr, Tutts new species " blandulella" from its similarity to a small 

 maculea, of which one of the best known synonyms was blandella. He 

 also remarked that Deal was a new locality for Doryphora palustrella, which 

 had hitherto only been recorded from Wicken Fen and the Norfolk Fens 

 in England, and from the neighbourhood of Stettin on the Continent. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Goote, a variety of Lycmna 

 phlaas ; also a number of Stenobothrus rufipes, and three specimens of 

 Coccinella labilis, recently taken by himself at Heme Bay. 



Mr. Martin Jacoby exhibited specimens of Spilopyra sumptuosa, Baly, 

 and Sybriacus magnificus, Baly. He also exhibited several species of 

 Galerucida, belonging to a genus which he proposed to call Neobrotica, 

 closely resembling in shape and coloration certain species of Diabrotica, 

 but differing therefrom in structural characters. He remarked that the 

 late Baron Vou Harold had described a Galeruca from Africa, which, 

 except in generic characters, exactly resembled the South American genus 

 Dircema. 



Dr. Sharp communicated a paper, by Mr. Thomas L. Casey, " On a 

 new genus of African PselapJiidce." 



Mr. Bridgman communicated a paper entitled " Further Additions to 

 the Rev. T. A. Marshall's Catalogue of British Ichneumonidcc." 



Mr. Distant read a paper entitled " Contributions to a Knowledge of 

 Oriental Rhynchota." 



Mr. Euock read notes " On the Parasites of the Hessian Fly," and 

 exhibited specimens of injured barley. A discussion ensued, in which 

 Dr. Sharp, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Billups, Mr. Waterhouse, and others took 

 part. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



