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that the statement he had made from observation, without dissection, might 

 prove to be erroneous. Mr. G. F. Hampson exhibited and remarked on a 

 series of Erebia melas, taken in July last, in the Austrian Alps (Dolomites), 

 by Mrs. Nicholls. Captain Elwes observed that this species was abundant 

 in the Pyrenees ; but although he had frequently suggested to Dr. Staudinger 

 and other European lepidopterists that it probably occurred in the Swiss or 

 Austrian Alps, he had never been able to obtain specimens from any part 

 of Europe except the Pyrenees ; and that it had been left to an English 

 lady to be the first to take a species of Erebia new to these Alps. He 

 added that the species only frequented very steep and stony slopes on the 

 mountains, so that its capture was attended with difficulty. Mr. 

 M'Lachlan exhibited specimens of an extraordinary Neuropterous larva 

 found by Mr. B. G. Nevinson in tombs at Cairo. He said that this larva 

 had been assigned to the genus Nemoptera by Schaum, who described it as 

 having been found in tombs in Egypt (Berl. Ent. Zeitschrift, vol. i.) ; and 

 Roux had previously (Ann. Sci. Nat. t. xxviii.) described and figured it as 

 an abnormal apterous hexapod under the name of Necrophilus arenarius. 

 Mr. Nevinson supplemented these remarks with an account of his capture 

 of the specimens in the Egyptian tombs. Mr. G. T. Baker exhibited a 

 series of forms of species of the genus Boarmia from Madeira ; and also a 

 series of melanic varieties of Gracilaria syringella from the neighbourhood 

 of Birmingham. Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited and remarked on a 

 series of specimens of Dermestes vulpinus, which had been doing much 

 damage to the roofs of certain soap-works in the neighbourhood of London, 

 where it had no doubt been introduced with bones and fat. Mr. R. W. 

 Lloyd exhibited a specimen of Carabus catenulatus, in which the femur of 

 the right fore-leg was curiously dilated and toothed. He stated that he 

 took the specimen at Oxshott, Surrey, on the 27th September last. The 

 Rev. C. F. Thornewill exhibited a black variety of the male of Argynnis 

 aglaia, taken by himself in July last on Cannock Chase ; also a number of 

 living larva? of a species of Eupithecia feeding on the flower- heads of 

 Tanacetum vulgare, collected in a limestone quarry in Leicestershire. He 

 expressed some doubt as to the identity of the species, burTthe-general 

 opinion was that the larvae were only those of Eupithecia absynthiata. Mr. 

 G. Bryant sent for exhibition a variety of the larva of Trichiura cratcegi. 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a specimen of Plusia moneta, Fabr., a species 

 new to Britain, taken at Reading by Mr. W. Holland in July last. It was 

 stated that the first specimen of this species captured in this country had 

 been taken at Dover last June, and was now in the collection of Mr. Sydney 

 Webb, of that town. Mr. Kirby said that Mynheer Snellen had reported 

 this species as being unusually common in Holland a few years ago. Mr. 

 W. Dannatt exhibited a variety of Papilio hectorides, J , from Paraguay. 

 Mr. Osbert Salvin said he believed he had seen this form before. Mr. C.J. 

 Gahan exhibited a curious little larva-like creature, found by Mr. Green in 

 a rapid mountain stream in Ceylon, and observed that there was some doubt 

 as to its true position in the animal kingdom. It was made up of six 

 distinct segments, each of which bore a single pair of laterally directed 

 processes or unjointed appendages. Mr. Hampson remarked that the 

 appendages were very suggestive of the parapodia of certain chsetopod 

 worms, but that all the known polychsetous worms were marine. Lord 

 Walsingham and Mr. M'Lachlan expressed an opinion that the animal was 

 of myriopodous affinities, and was not the larva of an insect. Mr. Baker 

 read a paper entitled " Notes on the genitalia of a gynandromorphous 

 Eronia hippia." — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



