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of Vienna, showing the picture ohtained at the back of the eye of Lampyris 

 splendidula. He stated that this picture is continuous and not reversed, 

 and shows the outlines of lights and shades of objects at a distance as well 

 as of those closer to the eye. Mr. H. Goss exhibited a specimen of 

 Zygcena filipendulcs var. chrysanthemi, which he had taken at Rhinefield, 

 in the New Forest, on the 15th July last. Dr. P. B. Mason said this 

 variety was known on the Continent of Europe, and was figured by Hiibner 

 in his ' Sammlung,' a copy of which work he exhibited. He added that he 

 possessed a similar specimen of this variety taken by Mr. Nowers in Wyre 

 Forest, Worcestershire. Colonel Swinhoe stated that he possessed a similar 

 variety of a species of Syntomis. The Rev. Dr. Walker exhibited a 

 number of Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Coleoptera recently collected in 

 Iceland ; also some drawings illustrating the various forms of Crymodes 

 exulis occurring in Iceland which he had shown at the October meeting of 

 the Society ; he also exhibited seven varieties of Melanippe thuleana, nine 

 of Coremia munitata, and a few of Noctua conflua, illustrating the varied 

 forms of these species occurring in Iceland. Dr. Mason said that the only 

 British specimens of N. conflua which he had seen resembling the Iceland 

 form of the species were taken at Wolsingham, Durham. Mons. A. Wailly 

 exhibited and remarked on a number of Lepidoptera from Japan. The 

 collection comprised about forty-one species, eleven of which, it was stated, 

 were not represented in the British Museum collections. Mr. A. C. Horner 

 exhibited a number of rare species of Coleoptera, including Homalota 

 crassicornis, Gyll., H. fimorum, Bris., H. humeralis, Kr., and Euryporus 

 picipes, Pk., collected at Church Stretton, Shropshire ; and also Amara 

 nitida, Sturm., Oxypoda amana, Fair., Homalota testdceipes, Heer, Litho- 

 charis apicalis, Kr., and Epurcea neglecta, Heer, from the neighbourhood of 

 Tonbridge. Mr. Meyer-Darcis exhibited a specimen of Termitobia physo- 

 gastra, Gangelb., a new genus and species of Brachelytra obtained in a 

 white-ants' nest from the Congo. Dr. Sharp commented on the interesting 

 nature of this exhibition. Colonel Swinhoe exhibited a collection of moths 

 from Southern India, which comprised about forty-one species, distributed 

 amongst the following families : — Syntomidse, Lithosiidse, Arctiidae^ Lasio- 

 campidse, Zerenidse, Fidonidae, Leucanidse, Heliothidse, Acontiidse, Poa- 

 philidae, &c. He also read a paper describing these species, entitled " New 

 Species of Moths from Southern Tndia." The Rev. T. A. Marshall com- 

 municated a paper entitled " AMonograph of British Braconidse. Part IV." 

 Lord Walsingham read a paper entitled " African Micro-Lepidoptera," 

 containing descriptions of seventy-one new. species, and of the following 

 nine new genera, viz. : — Autochthonus (type A. chalybiellus, Wlsm.), 

 Scalidoma (type Tinea horridella, Wkr.), Barbaroscardia (type B. fasciata, 

 Wlsm.), Odites (type 0. natalensis, Wlsm.), Idiopteryx (type Cryptolechia 

 obliquella, Wlsm.), Microthauma (type M. metallifera, Wlsm.), Licmocera 

 (type L. lyonetiella, Wlsm.), Oxymachceris (type 0. niveocervina, Wlsm.), 

 and Micropostega (type M. mieofasciata, Wlsm.). Several European and 

 American genera were recorded as new to the African fauna, and the 

 occurrence of one Australian and two Indian genera was also noted. — 

 H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — October 23rd. W. H. Tug well, Vice-President, in the chair. Messrs. 

 P. J. Crane, of Chiugford, and G. Wallace, of Forest Hill, were elected 

 members. Mr. Bouttell exhibited two series of Eugonia quercinaria, 



