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Mr. L. R. Ashby exhibited a large number of British 

 Coleoptera, including fine series of the genera Donacia, 

 Cryptoccphalus, Chrysomela, Longitarsus, and Crcpidodera, and 

 a large number of Curculionidce, with series of the rare Lixus 

 bicolor and Liparus germanus. 



Mr. W. West, of Greenwich, exhibited an extremely large 

 specimen of the stag beetle (Lucanus cervus). 



Mr. W. E. Butler exhibited a series of the Coleopteron 

 Phymatodes lividus, a species recently new to the British list, 

 discovered by him at Reading. 



Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited his collection of 

 Hcmiptera-Hetcroptera and Hemiptera-Homoptera, native in 

 the British Isles. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited some of the larger European and 

 exotic Orthoptera, such as Blabera gigantea, the great South 

 American cockroach, Callimenus oniscus (Constantinople), 

 Saga cpliippigera (Smyrna), Meroncidius ochmceus (Jamaica), 

 Tropidacvis dux (Peru), and a drawer of European CEdipodidce, 

 containing series from various localities of (Edipoda ccerulesccns, 

 CE. gratiosa, CE. miniata, and Sphingonotus azurescens, etc. 



The Society exhibited the drawers containing their type 

 collection of British Orthoptera. 



Mr. H. T. Dobson exhibited his collection of indigenous 

 dragonliies (Odonata), including series of Mschna isosceles, 

 Libellula fulva, L. dubia, Sympetrum sanguincinn, etc., all 

 taken by himself. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited cases containing a large 

 number of species of Phasmidce (walking-stick insects) and 

 Mantidce. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards also exhibited a very handsome case 

 of working bees, Apis mellifica, and a nest of living ants, 

 Formica flava. 



Mr. F. Noad Clark exhibited a number of extremely fine 

 photo-micrographs of transverse sections of stems and roots, 

 the structure of leaves, etc., and also some exceedingly 

 interesting photographs of insect structures. 



Mr. A. W. Dennis exhibited a series of capital photographs 

 illustrating the following trees : Wayfaring tree in blossom 

 and in fruit ; alder buckthorn and common buckthorn in 

 fruit; whitebeam, in blossom and in fruit ; hornbeam, in fruit; 

 beech blossom ; barberry blossom ; lime blossom ; primrose ; 

 rockrose ; whitethorn, in blossom and in fruit ; 6* and J 

 blossoms of oak. 



Mr. J. Edwards exhibited photo-micrographs of insects 

 and spiders in their environment. 



