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points with an example in the British Museum, from Aden, 

 named by Mr. Janson. The distribution of the species, 

 therefore, appeared to be India, Aden, and Syria. 



Mr. Cockerell also exhibited two examples of Trichodes 

 from Syria, one of which he stated apparently agreed with 

 T, syriacus, Dej., as described in Spinola's Monograph, but 

 was considerably larger ; the other seemed to be a variety of 

 T. favarius, 111. 



Mr. C. A. Briggs remarked that Carpocapsa pomonella, L. 

 had recently been bred from apples imported from the United 

 States of America, and asked whether it was understood not 

 to be a true native species there. 



Mr. Jenner Weir said that he believed the time of its intro- 

 duction to the States was well known ; a great deal had been 

 written with reference to this species, and he had recently 

 received a communication from New Zealand, that C. 

 pomonella had arrived there, and was already causing a great 

 deal of damage in the orchards. 



Mr. Tutt mentioned that there was very little known as to 

 where the larvae pupated. 



Mr. C. Fenn said that he had repeatedly reared the species 

 from larvae, and the larva after leaving the apple went into 

 the earth and spun a cocoon, but it did not change to the 

 pupa until the spring ; the imagines could be seen flying over 

 the tops of the apple trees at about 8 o'clock in the evening ; 

 Catoptria Juliana, Curt, did not pupate in the earth, but the 

 larva bored into the bark of trees in order to pass the winter. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) remarked that he had bred C. 

 pomonella from chestnut, walnut, and pear ; he had frequently 

 taken the larva from the chestnuts in Greenwich Park. In 

 rearing the species from larvae he had frequently found them 

 bore into the wood of the cage. In reply to Mr. Fenn as to 

 the time of emergence of Jtiliana, Mr. West said that he 

 found they emerged about lo or ii o'clock in the morning; 

 he had invariably taken them at this time drying their wings. 

 After the wings were dry, he imagined they rose to the trees, 

 as he had never found them in the afternoon on the tree ; he 

 thought it was generally confined to oaks. 



Mr. Billups asked whether anyone had noticed the extra- 

 ordinary abundance of Vespa vulgaris, L, During the 

 week, he was on Shirley Heath sweeping, and at every stroke 

 of the net he got eight or a dozen wasps. Mr. Rice men- 

 tioned having counted thirty nests within an area of two 

 hundred yards ; this was near Ockley, Surrey, Mr. South 

 remarked that the year 1879 was a very similar year to the 



