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Mr. Blair exhibited male and female specimens of the " stick 

 insect," commonly known as Dixippus niorosus, and pointed out its 

 characters. He remarked that the name the species had been 

 hitherto known by was incorrect. It was a species of the genus 

 Linchodes. He also showed imagines of the Neuropteron, Boreus 

 Injemalis, of which he had previously exhibited the larva and pupa. 



Mr. Maine also exhibited Borens hyemalis, and called attention to 

 its curious habit of making sudden leaps. He also exhibited the 

 larva of the common Scorpion-fly, Panorpa communis. 



Mr. Baumann exhibited a nearly black form of Acidalia vinjularia 

 with white fringe and only a narrow sub-basal transverse band 

 light in colour. It was taken at Lewisham. 



Mr. B. L. Curwen exhibited series of the four species of Colias he 

 had obtained this year in Switzerland, C. pahrno, C. pMcornone, C. 

 hyale, and C. e(h(.m. He also showed melanic forms of Cidaria 

 iinmanata from Brockenhurst, and of Hypsipetes sordidata {elutata) 

 from Wimbledon Common ; a specimen of Mania niaitra, bred from 

 Wimbledon larva, with very strongly contrasted black and buff 

 markings; an. example of Humicia phUras with four blue spots on 

 the margin of the hindwings, taken at the Beaconsfield meeting ; a 

 specimen of CallimorpJia dominula with yellow underwings, from 

 Harbridge, Hants ; and Spilosoma lubricipeda var. zatima. 



Mr. Blenkarn exhibited three recent additions to the British 

 list of Halipliia (Coleoptera), and communicated the following 

 note : — 



" Mr. Edwards, in the January number of the " Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine," gives a paper on the revision of this very 

 confused family, and as far as I know he is the only one who has 

 separated the rnficolUs group during recent years. 



H. heydeni. — He says the chief points in this species are, 

 "Elytral interstices of the female without punctulation, size 

 smaller than ritficoUia, wider at the shoulders, and more rapidly 

 narrowed behind ; an easy species to distinguish." The female 

 specimen I show was taken by him in the Cotswold district. 



H. inimacidattis. — Elytral interstices of female with punctulation. 

 The elytral punctures forming the apex of the ninth row, show a 

 tendency to become merged in a black marking. The pair shown 

 came from a new locality, Kessingland, near Lowestoft, in August 

 1911. 



Gabriiis stipes. — The chief distinctions of this species are that 

 the penultimate joints of the antennfe are strongly transverse, first 

 joint black, head broad, femora dirty testaceous, tibife pitchy. Dr. 



