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largely this fact that gave the specimen its peculiar appear- 

 ance. Be that as it may, it was not until I was removing 

 it from the setting-board some weeks afterwards that I 

 noticed that the left antenna was female and the right male. 

 Whether it was the excitement of this discovery that 

 unsteadied my hand, I know not, but by some unfortunate 

 means I chipped off the male antenna, and in my endeavour 

 to replace it it broke into a number of pieces and was lost. 

 The differences between the wings on either side are trivial, 

 yet slight as they are the left appear to me to incline in 

 general appearance to those of an ordinary female, while 

 those on the right tend somewhat to those of the male. 

 The specimen in its present condition appeared to be of no 

 great interest ; I therefore thought that it might be well to 

 dissect out the genitalia for comparison with the same 

 organs of the ordinary male and female. This Mr. A. Cant 

 kindly undertook to do, and has very successfully mounted 

 them, and with a view to a more easy examination of their 

 structure Mr. F. Clark has, with his usual kindness and 

 skill, produced enlarged photos. From these it will be seen 

 that the organs of the gynandromorphous specimen differ 

 slightly from those of both of the others, but there is a 

 certain want of definition that suggests that the inability of 

 the insect to free its abdomen from the pupa skin prevented 

 its full development, but the absence of claspers and the 

 general contour appear to me to indicate female structure." 



A paper by Edward Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., entitled 

 " Notes on collecting British Hemiptera," was read (p. 16). 



In the discussion which followed, carding was advocated 

 as the best method of mounting specimens. The structure 

 of the under side, upon which in some cases the specific 

 characters were based, could readily be made apparent if 

 some examples were set with their legs uppermost. If they 

 were worth collecting it was thought that they were worth 

 making presentable by being placed in a symmetrical 

 position 



MAY 1 2th, 1898. 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. W. Downing, of Tooting Graveney, was re-elected 

 a member. 



Mr. Adkin exhibited some specimens from the collection 

 of the late Mr. Tugwell which were labelled Coremia uni- 



