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Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., exhibited his very valuable 

 collection of Papilioninas from all parts of the world. 



Mr. O. E. Janson, F.E.S., exhibited exotic Lepidoptera, 

 comprising a selection of the genus Ornithoptcra, or bird's 

 wing butterflies, and some rare and remarkable species of 

 HcpialidcE, including Zclotypia stacyi (the giant swift moth of 

 Australia), Leto venns (the silver swift of South Africa), 

 Charagia lewini, etc. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Mr. W. West, of Greenwich, exhibited his collection of 

 British Geodephaga {Cicindclidce, Carahida, Dytiscidcc) and 

 the genera Chrysomcla and Aphodiiis, wanting in very few 

 species, one monster specimen of Liicanns cerviis, L. (Stag 

 beetle) being very prominent. 



Mr. B.G. Rye, F.E.S., exhibited educational cases show- 

 ing representatives of all the families and most of the genera 

 of British Coleoptera. 



Mr. O. Janson, F.E.S., exhibited some very fine speci- 

 mens of exotic Coleoptera, including a series of the three 

 great African Goliath beetles, G. gigantctis, regins, and 

 cacicus, also Hypocephakts armahis, Phalacrognatlins inulleri, 

 Mormolyce phyllodes, and other rare or remarkable forms. 



Hymenoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, &c. 



Mr. T. R. Billups, F.E.S., exhibited inimitably set and 

 arranged, collections of British ants, bees, and wasps ; a 

 collection of bugs (Hemiptera), and a very large number of 

 life histories of species of Diptera and Hymenoptera which 

 are parasitical on Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Alf. Beaumont, F.E.S, exhibited three drawers of 

 British Diptera. 



Mr. Carrington exhibited a number of plants having 

 insect galls upon them. 



Mr. Billups captured a specimen of the beautiful bug 

 Zicrona ccerulea, L., among the Fungi. It was no doubt 

 introduced with the moss from Oxshott, Surrey. 



Mr. H. A. Auld exhibited the nest of a hornet {Vespa 

 crahro, L.). 



Orthoptera, &c. 



Mr. C. A. Briggs exhibited a collection of British Orthop- 

 tera ; living specimens of the ship Cockroach, Periplaneta 



