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callunaria, Sta., and ciirzoni, Gregs. ; also five examples of a 

 species of Eupithecia from Renfrewshire, ordinarily looked 

 upon as a var. of satyrata ; he could not think they were 

 referable to this species, but on looking at them carefully he 

 thought they might be E. albiptmctata, Haw., but should 

 not like to express a definite opinion. Mr. Hall thought 

 they were the la'^t named species. Mr. C. G. Barrett re- 

 marked that he had a strong impression on his mind that 

 they were not of so bright a black as the black variety of 

 E. albipiinctata, known as angclicata, Bar. He had had 

 specimens of the Paisley insect sent him for naming ; and 

 although he found castigata was very near to it, he thought 

 that he had returned it as possibly trisignaria^ H.-S., 

 although he was not strong in this opinion. 



Mr. Tutt said it was difficult to correctly name an insect 

 from an isolated specimen with no data as to its history' ; in 

 his opinion the specimens were referable to virgaureata, Dbld., 

 and they were sent out with virgdiiveata from Perth. Mr, 

 Fenn said he was inclined to agree with Mr. Tutt, that 

 they came nearer to virgaureatd than to any other species ; 

 he had never heard of trisignaria so far north as Scotland. 



Mr. Billups exhibited specimens of Diptera bred by 

 members of the Society from the following Lepidopterous 

 larvae : Masicera sylvatica, Fin. by Mr. Fenn from the larvae 

 of Saturnia pavonia, Schiff. Mr. Winkley had also bred the 

 same species {xonx Pieris brassicce,\^. Phorocera concinnata, 

 Mg., in some numbers by Mr. Frohawk, from the larva of 

 Vanessa 2LrticcB, this species also filling to Mr. Winkley's lot 

 from Pieris brassicce. Nemorcea notabilis, Mg, bred from 

 the larvae of Phisia festiiccE, by Mr. Wellman. TacJiina 

 tibialis, Mg., had been bred from Vanessa iLrticce, by himself, 

 and Trixia variegata, Mg., from larvae of CJieiinatobia 

 boreata, Hb., by Mr. South. Mr. Billups also called atten- 

 tion to three beautiful specimens of the rare dipteron Oxycera 

 terminata, Mg., one of which he had bred from a pupae 

 found in his own garden, Dulwich, in August, 1889; the 

 other two being captured in the same locality in August of 

 the present year. He also exhibited several species of 

 Hymenopterous parasites, which were parasitic on the eggs 

 of Lepidoptera and Diptera ; amongst others minute but 

 beautiful specimens of Telenomus phalcenarum, Ns., Tele- 

 nonms nitiduhis, Thom., ProsacantJia brevicornis, Thom., and 

 P, brachyptera, Thom., Platygaster nigra, Hal. and P. 

 scelinodis, Hal., Gonatocerus pictus, Hal., Monelata parvula, 

 Nees., Inostemma boscii, Walk., and many others too 

 numerous to mention. 



