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Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited specimens of the Tsetze, Glossina 

 morsitans, West., which he had received from Dr. Percy 

 Rendall, Transvaal, and remarked that these insects, so 

 destructive to cattle in South Africa, looked exceedingly like 

 our innocent house flies. He also exhibited a specimen of a 

 Depressaria taken by him more than 30 years ago near Lewes ; 

 it was probably Depressaria aurantiella, Tutt, and differed 

 from D. badiella, Hb., with which it had been confounded, 

 by possessing large bright orange coloured palpi, as pointed 

 out by Mr. Tutt, those organs in the latter species being 

 dark brown. 



Mr. Tutt said that his Depressaria was captured at Deal in 

 1888, and was submitted to Mr. Stainton, who considered it 

 a good species, but thought he had better wait for more 

 material ; but unfortunately he had been unable to capture 

 any more specimens possessing the orange palpi. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Cyniatophora or, Fb.^ 

 bred from larvae found feeding between united leaves of aspen 

 in Sutherlandshire, together with representatives of the South 

 English, Shetland, and Rannoch forms for comparison. He 

 called attention to the very grey appearance of the Sutherland 

 series as compared with the English specimens, to the great 

 amount of individual variation in markings of the former, 

 both in regard to the transverse lines, which in some examples 

 were but faintly indicated, and in others so strongly produced 

 as to almost form broad bands across the wing ; and to the 

 stigmata, the reniform and orbicular being both very distinct 

 and united in some specimens, giving the appearance of an 

 irregular white blotch ; while in others neither of them were 

 discernible. Various modifications of these markings con- 

 necting these extreme forms, were also pointed out. 



Mr. Perks showed examples of the fungus Agaricus 

 {Naucoria) setni-orbicularis, from Wimbledon Common. 



Mr. Adkin also exhibited a very large fruit of Pyrus 

 japonica. 



Mr. Billups exhibited a number of species of rare Diptera 

 taken at Oxshott and Dulwich ; among which were Helomyza 

 apicalis, Sch\m., H. pallida, Fin., Ceroxys pictus,y[g., Sciomyza 

 dubia, Mg., Trixa cestroidea, Dsv., Sphcsrophoria tcBuiata, Mg., 

 Leptis conspicua, Mg. ; also a specimen of the rare Stenopteryx 

 hij'uiidinis, L., taken from a deer shot in Sutherlandshire; 

 and Bracon scutellaris, Wesmael., and Bracon ostmcelii, Wes- 

 mael.,as recorded by him in the " Entomologist," 1893, p. 279. 



Mr. Tutt said that he had second broods of Vanessa io, L., 

 and V. atalanta, L. ; Mr. Barrett remarking that as there 



