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Mr. Manger exhibited Dyiiastes hercules, Fab., from Mont- 

 serrat, Chalcosoma atlas, Fab., Megalosoma thesus, Fab., and a 

 species of Golofa, which was not identified, from Brazil. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited specimens of Qtrculio {Miarus) 

 micros, Germ., taken by his friend, Mr. W. West, in Headley 

 Lane, in the year 1884, at which time Mr. West said it 

 seemed to be in abundance ; but although he had several 

 times since diligently searched the same locality he had been 

 unable to again meet with it. 



Mr. Billups also exhibited some 50 species of Chrysomelidae 

 from different parts of the world, and made the following 

 remarks : — " The magnificent family of Chrysomelides, or 

 Leaf-beetles is well deserving of its name, which signifies 

 golden apples,' and is given to the insects on account of 

 their rounded and brilliantly polished bodies, which are 

 often decorated with metallic colourings of every combination. 

 The largest of our own British species is the well-known 

 'Bloody-nose Beetle' {Timarchia laevigata, L.), whose indigo 

 globular bodies are familiar to most residents in the country. 

 The genus CAryso me /a hsiS a. very wide geographical range, 

 and indeed wherever the climate permits insects to live at all, 

 some of the species may generally be found. They feed, 

 both in the larval and adult stages, on leaves, some of the 

 larvae being leaf-miners. It is estimated that there are from 

 8,000 to 10,000 species comprised in this family. 



Mr. Billups also exhibited a specimen of the Homopteron, 

 Hotiniis clavatus, Westw., and said this very singular and 

 grotesque insect belonged to the family Fulgoridai, Leach 

 (Lantern flies), and was taken by Mr. Elwes at Darjeeling, in 

 1886. 



With reference to Pinnotheres pisiini, the minute mussel 

 crab, of which Mr. Billups exhibited male and female examples, 

 Mr. Carrington said this crab was sometimes called the Pea 

 Crab, and in his opinion was not nearly so rare as generally 

 supposed. When he was working at the Crustacea he kept 

 several of them in confinement, and he was certain that the 

 crab did not feed on the mussel ; it was one of those cases in 

 which the one animal lived on the crumbs which fell from the 

 table of the other ; the crab was more a vegetable than an 

 animal feeder, and itd. on the small pieces of vegetable matter 



