countless numbers on an Umbellifer, Thapsia gargania, and 

 occur in the South of France, Italy, and Sicily. The imagines 

 emerge in April and May and aestivate, the larvae going 

 through the winter, whereas most species of the genus hiber- 

 nate as imagines. 



Mr. Sich exhibited larva? and pupae of Wheeleria (Aciptilia) 

 spilodactyla feeding on Marrubium vulgare. They were sent 

 to him from the Isle of Wight. He pointed out how closely 

 the colour and texture of the larvae assimilated to that of 

 the Marrubium. 



Mr. Wright exhibited a larva of a very large species of 

 Coleoptera, which was feeding in the wood of a sugar-box 

 from the West Indies. It had been in the burrow for some 

 eight months and had not attempted to bore its way out. 



JUNE 8th, 1905. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited a spike of the fly orchis, Ophrys musci- 

 fcra, in which the flowers, including the sepals, were white. 

 He stated that this was the second season in which this 

 particular plant had produced a spike with white flowers. It 

 was found on the Surrey hills. 



Mr. W T . J. Kaye exhibited a bred series of Zonosoma 

 pendularia, showing considerable variation. He also showed 

 a number of empty pupa cases in situ on the leaves upon 

 which they had pupated, and called attention to the variable 

 position of the girth. There seemed to be no fixed position 

 and no groove for its reception ; although perhaps normally 

 it passed round the third abdominal segment, it frequently 

 passed nearer to the head and often nearer to the anal 

 extremity. 



Mr. Step exhibited a number of Helix lapicida taken from 

 beech trunks near Ashtead. He stated that this species was 

 always most difficult to find, and only occasionally, after 

 very heavy rains, did it occur in any numbers, and even then 

 the species did not seem by any means generally distributed. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited examples of Coccinella 

 distincta, from Darenth Wood. It was a species very closely 

 allied to C. septempunctata, from which it was distinguished 

 by its much bolder spots. He also exhibited specimens of 

 Mordellistena abdominalis, a coleopteron, parasitic in the nests 

 of wild bees. 



Mr. Sich exhibited the exceedingly small ovum of Litho- 



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