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Hyeres and Oran, L. testacea from several English localities, 

 Brunswick, Buda-Pesth, Rennes, Linz, Hamburg, etc., and of 

 L. dunierilii from La Vendee, Lyons, Vannes, Sicily, Rennes, and 

 Gerryville d'Orau, Algeria. Mr. Turner stated that the genitalia of 

 L. nickedii, Bohemian, L. i/neneei, British, and L. (padini, Oberth., 

 Eastern Pyrenees, were identical, and confirmed their previous 

 conviction that these insects were geographical forms of one and 

 the same species. As additional evidence, M. Oberthiir informed 

 him that the so-called L. i/radini taken 1908 were identical with 

 the insects in his (M. Oberthiir's) collection taken and bred by 

 Mr. Graslin in 1847 and 1857. These last specimens were identified 

 by Dr. Nickerl himself as the same species as the L. nickedii he 

 had been in the habit of taking m Bohemia. Further, in the 

 " Ann. Boc. Ent. France " for 1863, M. Graslin describes the 

 larva of L. ijraslini, and compares it with that of L. testacea, from 

 which it is abundantly distinct. 



Mr. Stanley Blenkarn exhibited a number of insects taken by 

 him in Braganza, North Portugal, in a vineyard, on November 4th, 

 1911, including the harvesting ant, Aph<tno(jaiiter barbanis, and 

 several species of Orthoptera and Coleoptera. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited long and fine series of Boannia 

 repandata, bred this year by Mr. A. Harrison and himself, comprising 

 a series bred from a North Wales male var. conversaria and a 

 Yorkshire melanic female. All the offspring, both male and 

 female, show the presence of the dark band of the conversaria form, 

 some more strongly than the others. The ground colour of both 

 sexes is dark, but in the males it has a brownish tinge very notice- 

 able in daylight, resembling that of the male parent. In the 

 females the ground colour is much darker, closely resembling that 

 of the female parent, and with no trace of brown colour. A series 

 bred from Yorkshire parents, ranging from a suffused dark colour 

 to a dark mottled-grey. A series bred from Lancashire parents, 

 fairly uniform in appearance, but much blacker than the preceding 

 series. A series bred from a North Devon female, showing a fair 

 amount of variation in the colour and pattern. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited a small box of bees containing 

 the smallest and the largest bees known to him — Ceratina jiarvula, 

 Sm., and Xijlocopa, sp. ? ; Gilbert White's "Hoop-shaver bee," 

 Anthidium manicatum, L. ; the famous " Upholsterer bee " Osviia 

 (olim Anthocopa) papaveris, Latr. ; and two pairs of a Mediterranean 

 snail-shell-inhabiting bee, Osinia ferruginea. He also showed 

 photo-micrographs of the details in the " saws " of various 

 Palsearctic sawflies of the Genus Dolerus. 



