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Mr. South exhibited several exceedingly large specimens 

 of Ocneria dispar, L., which he thought from their peculiar 

 setting had formerly been in the possession of the late Mr. 

 Standish, who probably bred them from larvae collected in 

 the fens, where the species was common many years ago. 

 Mr. Weir concurred in this opinion. The male measured 

 2 in. in expanse of wings, and the female w^as 3^ in. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a series of Pararge megcera, L., 

 being a third brood, and comprising ten males and ten 

 females. The ova were deposited on August 2nd, 1893, the 

 larval stage lasted about twenty-five days, and the imagines 

 emerged from September 24th to October 5th. The parent 

 was captured on July 31st at Cudham. Mr. Jenner Weir 

 remarked that megcBra was Westwood's type of the genus 

 Pararge. 



Mr. Billups exhibited three species of rare Ichneumonid^, 

 namely, Microgaster russahis, Hal., Hyperacnius crassicornis, 

 Gr., and Euryproctus neinoralis, Fouce. The first, Mr. 

 Billups stated, belonged to the family Braconidce, and was 

 the most showy and conspicuous species of the sub-family 

 Microgaster, and was exceedingly rare. According to the Rev. 

 T. A. Marshall the British Museum contains but one male 

 from Haliday (Ent. Soc. Coll.), two males and one female from 

 Stephens' collection, and three males from Desvignes. He 

 had seen five males and two females from Berlin, Danzig, 

 and Oranienburg. Wesmael captured a male near Brussels, 

 and two others are recorded by Herr Snellen von Vollen- 

 hoven, taken at Rotterdam. Mr. Billups had captured 

 two males at High Beech, Epping Forest, in 1884, and these 

 were now in the collection of the Rev. T. A. Marshall. 

 The present specimen, which is a female, was taken by 

 himself, June i6th, at Bromley in Kent, while sweeping some 

 low herbage growing in a very dirty pond in the district. 

 The second species, Hyperaamis^ had only been recorded 

 once, and was taken by Dr. Capron at Shere, near Guildford, 

 in the summer of 1881. Mr, Billups captured his solitary 

 specimen, which is a female, at Oxshott, in June, 1892. The 

 two specimens of Euryproctus were females, and also ex- 

 tremely rare, they were taken by himself at Oxshott, in 

 July, 1892. 



Mr. Filer exhibited a varied series of Hybernia lencophcearia, 

 Schiff, taken at Richmond and Epping between February 

 4th and 1 8th, among which were a number of exceptionally 

 dark forms. Several members said that they had found 

 these latter forms rather freely this season. 



