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the tubers of several species of orchis, as O. inascula, O. 

 pyramidalis, and Habenaria bifolia ; lie had never heard of its 

 being made from Arum roots. 



The meeting closed with a Microscopical Exhibition, Mr. 

 C. H. Collings exhibiting the ichneumon before referred to. 

 Mr. Billups ovipositor of Biston hirtaria. Mr. R. Adkin 

 antennae of the male of Pygcsra bucephala. Mr. W. West 

 ovaries of house-fly and head of T(Enia solium. Mr. Cameron 

 diatoms, tongue of Apis mellifica, proboscis of Miisca domes- 

 tica, etc. 



MARCH i^th, 1890. 

 J. T. Carrington, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. A. E. Peake and E. W. Sinclair-Cox were elected 

 members. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited a specimen of Ichneinnon 

 Haglundi, Holmg., a species new to Britain, bred by Mr. R. 

 Adkin from a larva of Spilosonia fuliginosa, L., received from 

 Scotland ; also a series o{ Apanteles emarginatus, Nees., bred 

 from Gracilaria omissella, Dougl., by Mr. Eiisha. Mr. Billups 

 said that there appeared to be no records of this species 

 having been bred before in this country from any of the 

 family Gracilariidae ; but according to Reinhard, it had been 

 bred in Germany from Gracilaria rttfipennella, Hub., and G. 

 Fribergensis, Fritzsche. 



Mr. V. Gerrard exhibited living larvae and pupae, with set 

 examples of the imago of a species of Ephestia, discovered 

 by him in some old samples of rice. At present he was 

 unable to say where the samples originally came from, as in 

 the lot he looked through there were some from Japan, 

 Java and Burmah respectively. He had, however, written 

 to the merchants in Hamburg, through whom the rice came, 

 for particulars as to whether the larva occurred commonly in 

 rice samples ; and if so, inquiring the place or places from 

 which it came. It was suggested that the species was R. 

 kuhniella, Zell. 



Mr. Mansbridge exhibited imagines and living larvae of a 

 species of Tinea feeding in samples of fish guano, and 

 said that the guano was brought from Brettesnaes, on the 

 N.W. coast of Norway, and was composed of the flesh and 

 bones of small cod and herrings from which the oil had been 

 pressed. The larvae inhabited a tube or gallery, which was 

 formed of particles of the food united with silk. In all the 

 examples seen these galleries were beneath the surface, but 



