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white form of the species (van hebudium, Weir) which is said 

 to occur among specimens^ of the usual British type in the 

 Isle of Lewis, one of the Hebrides, or Western Islands of 

 Scotland. 



In conclusion he said that he held the opinion that a 

 restricted habitat, and the close inter-breeding consequent 

 thereon, had much to do with the production of local forms. 



Mr. Rose made some remarks on this species which he 

 had observed in Norway. 



Mr. Wellman exhibited a varied series of Oporabia fili- 

 grammaria, H.-S. 



Mr. J. T. Williams exhibited a very beautiful banded 

 variety of Nyssia Jiispidaria, Fb. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited Agapantliia liueaticollis, 

 Don., from Lincoln ; Callidiiun variabiles L., and Strangalia 

 ^-fasciata, L., both taken at Chobham, July, 1885, and 

 read the following notes : — 



" These three species of Coleoptera belong to the 

 sub-order Longicornia, Latreille, this immense family number- 

 ing already nearly 4,000 known species, comprising some of 

 the largest, most showy, as well as the most destructive insects 

 of the Insect Fauna. Their eggs are introduced into the 

 cracks in the bark of plants or trees by the long extensive 

 tip of the abdomen. The larvae are long, flattened, cylindrical, 

 fleshy and often footless whitish grubs, armed with strong 

 sharp mandibles, adapted for boring like an auger in the 

 hardest woods, and live from one to three years in their 

 burrows before transformation ; at the end of which time 

 they construct a cocoon of chips at the end of their burrows, 

 the head of the pupa lying next to the thin portion of bark 

 left to conceal the hole. 



" Agapanthia is often taken on thistles, to the blossom of 

 which it is much attached. 



" Callidium is mostly met with on old trees, and some- 



