1889.] 459 



Adye, Ince, Tugwell, and by Mr. Billups on behalf of the Eev. W. F. Johnson and 

 G. G. Grapes — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



The Annual Exhibition was held at the Bridge House Hotel on Wednesday 

 and Thursday, October 30th and 31st. There was a large attendance, and many 

 interesting exhibitions in subjects outside Entomology, and about thirty microscopes, 

 and a large quantity of living Fungi ; on the two evenings 2000 visitors were present 

 Mr. H. Burns exhibited his living Ants and their nests. Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, 

 Diptera and Neitroptera were exhibited by Miss Kimber, and Messrs. Billups, 

 Robinson, and McLachlan. In Orthoptera, Mr. Shaw exhibited the Bi'itish species 

 of Pachytylus, and Mr. Billups a living Mole-Cricket. Coleoptera were exhibited 

 by Messrs. Billups, Goodman, "West, and the Rev. W. F. Johnson. In foreign 

 Lepidoptera, were exhibits by Messrs. Leech, (Palaearctic Catocalce), S. Edwards, 

 Dannatt, Jones, Weir, &c. The exhibitions of British Lepidoptera were very numerous, 

 and the subjects of great interest. In this department the following (amongst 

 others) assisted, viz. : — Mrs. Hutchinson, Messrs. Briggs, Croker, Adkin, Vine> 

 Wellman, Clarke, Elisha, Machin, Schooling, C. B. Smith, Tutt, Barren, Adye, West, 

 Tugwell, and Jager. 



[The above is abridged from the official report kindly furnished by the Hon. 

 Sec. The requirements of an unusually heavy Index Number do not permit of the 

 report being given in greater detail. — Eds.] 



Entomological Society of London: November 6th, 1889.— Prof. J. O. 

 Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., Hon. Life-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Richard S. Standen, of Framlingham Earl Hall, Norwich, was elected a 

 Fellow. 



Mr. J. W. Douglas sent for exhibition specimens of Anthocoris visci, Doug., a 

 new species taken from mistletoe, at Hereford, in the end of September last by 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman ; also specimens of Psylla visci, Curtis, taken at the same time 

 and place. 



Mr. R. McLachlan exhibited coloured drawings of a specimen of Zygcena 

 Jilipendulce , in which the left posterior leg is replaced by a fully-developed wing, 

 similar to an ordinary hind-wing, and with the neuration almost precisely the same, 

 but less densely clothed with scales. The specimen was described by Mr. N. M. 

 Richardson in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for June, 1889, and the drawing was executed by 

 Mrs. Bichardson. He also exhibited a female specimen of the common earwig, 

 Forficula auricularia, with a parasitic Gordius emerging from between the metathorax 

 and abdomen. It had been placed in his hands by Mr. A. B. Farn, by whom it 

 was taken. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited a gynandromorphous specimen of Lyccena Icarus, 

 having the characters of a male in the right wings and the characters of a female in 

 the left wings, caught by Mr. T. Brown at Keyingham, Yorkshire, on the 22nd June 

 last ; also a specimen of a variety of Crabro interruptus, De Geer, found by 

 Mr. F. Woodbridge at Uxbridge. 



Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited a male and female specimen of a species belonging 

 to a new genus of JJiscocephalince, from Guatemala, in which the sexes are totally 

 dissimilar, the female having abbreviated membranes, and being altogether larger 

 than the male. 



