67 



Mexico. Amongst the Geodephaga were five species of Calo- 

 soma, including C. scrutator (Fab.), the North American 

 representative of C. sycophanta (Lim.), Anophthalnms tenuis 

 (Hom.), the blind cave-beetle from Wyandotte Cave, and 

 Brachynns finnans (Fab.), one of the numerous Bombardiers. 

 The species from other divisions included Megilla niaculata 

 (De G.), a gregarious Coccinelid, which herds in thousands 

 for the winter, Ellychnia corriLsca, the fire-fly, Cernichtts piceiis 

 (Web.), a diminutive stag-beetle, Lachnosterna fnsca (Froh.), 

 as great a pest in North America in certain seasons as Rhizo- 

 trogns solstitialis (Linn.) in England. Boletotherns bifiircus 

 (Fab.), with its curious thoracic processes, and many other 

 interesting and representative species. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited the following insects : 



1, A fine male specimen of Gryllus campestris, perfect 

 except for the antennae. It was taken last 5/ear under a slab 

 of wood in a temporary bathing-shed erected on the beach 

 near Hastings. It made its presence known by its shrill 

 cry. Records of the capture of this insect in Britain are not 

 numerous. 



2. A female dragonfly of the genus Sympetrum, captured 

 with another by Mr. H. S. Fremlin last summer at Storno- 

 way, in the Island of Lewis. It must probably be referred 

 to the species striolatum, though it differs in many ways 

 from the type form. In some respects it resembles S. scoti- 

 cum in general appearance. It is perhaps a Hebridean race, 

 and may possibly be new. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Melanippe fliictiiata 

 taken in a small wood and in his garden, both at Lewisham. 

 Those from the wood were, as a rule, darkly marked, large- 

 sized specimens, which, he said, was the prevailing form in 

 this particular locality. 



Messrs. Hall and Turner had both repeatedly met with 

 the dark form in the environs of London. Mr. Tutt said 

 that it was a species which readily responded to its environ- 

 ment, and referred to the well-known var. neapolisata of South 

 Europe, and to a somewhat similar form found at Pitcaple. 

 He had seen a few dark examples in the Alps. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a large number of slides, pre- 

 pared to illustrate his paper entitled " On the Relation of 

 the Larval to the Imaginal Legs in Lepidoptera " (see ' Ent. 

 Record,' xii, pp. 141, etc.). 



