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JUNE T.'jth, 1889. 

 T. R. BiLLUPS, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Billups exhibited specimens of the very beautiful 

 Eulophus dainicornis, Kirby, of the family Cynipidae, Lat., 

 bred from pupae attached to the leaves of lime-trees from 

 Oxshot, Surrey, taken by Mr. Adkin. Mr. Billups said this 

 species was most probably parasitic upon the larva of some 

 species of Micro-Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Wellman exhibited Penthina pruniana, Hb., with the 

 usual central dark half of the superior wings so largely suffused 

 with pale grey that it had almost entirely disappeared (Plate 

 I., fig. 7)- 



Mr. Dennis exhibited a variety of Aj'gynnis selene, Schiff., 

 taken in Ashdown Forest. The black markings of the spe- 

 cimen were enlarged, and formed a somewhat broken band 

 across the wing. 



Mr. Waller exhibited a fawn-coloured variety of Argynnis 

 euplirosyne, L., taken at Box Hill, Surrey. 



Mr. Billups exhibited a specimen of the rare Hemipteron 

 Sehirus diLbius, Scop., taken by Mr. Carrington at Horsley, 

 Surrey, a new locality for this species, as hitherto it had only 

 been recorded from the Isle of Wight, Portland, and Pang- 

 bourne. Also a series of Corynibites querciis var. ocJiroptenis, 

 Steph., taken at Armagh, Ireland, in May of this year by the 

 Rev. W. F. Johnson. 



Mr. Billups also exhibited galls on the ground ivy {^Nepeta 

 glechoma, Benth.), and the gall-flies bred from the same, viz., 

 Calliniome glechomcE, Mayr. P'or these galls he was indebted 

 to Mr. Carrington, who found them in the neighbourhood of 

 Westerham, in May last. Mr. Billups also exhibited galls on 

 the yellow bedstraw {Galiwn veruiri, L.), and their makers 

 Caliiniome galii, Boh. These galls were found in great 

 abundance by Mr. Billups on the occasion of the Society's 

 visit to Horsley on the 20th of the present month. 



Mr. Carrington exhibited a large and curious cluster of 

 dead flies attached to a sallow twig, part of a bush over- 

 hanging a lake in the neighbourhood of Condover, near 

 Shrewsbury. They were found by Mrs. Close, of Condover 



