1894.] 119 



Dulwieh, new to Britain, Sciomyza rtifiventris, from Irelandi, Degeeria pulchella, 

 bred from Feronea maccana by Mr. Adkin, Urellia elata, from Lewisbara, and an 

 unknown species of tbe genus Phoriia ; also galls of Dryophanta divisa and their 

 maker, with Synergus alhipes, one of its inquilines, and five parasites, viz., Mesopo- 

 lolus fasciventris, Syntomaspis caudatus, Upelmus urozonus, Decatoma biguttata, 

 and a Chalcid. Mr. Adkin, a drawer showing series of the genus Noctua from 

 various localities, especially N. glareosa, Esp., and N. augur, Fb. Mr. Moore and 

 Mr. Perks, wood which had been destroyed by Coleoptera. Mr. C. A. Briggs, a 

 number of very striking varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, L., similar to those 

 figured by Newman, and The Young Naturalist, Vol. I. Mr. Jager, a living Biston 

 Mrtaria, Clerck, stating that he had met with a considerable number of cripples, all 

 malformed on the right side. — Henet J. Tubnee, Son. Secretary. 



ENTOMOLoaiCAL SOCIETY OF LONDON : March 28^A, 1894. — Heney John 

 Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw, of 58, Comiston Eoad, Edinburgh, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. McLachlan announced the sudden death, on the 23rd inst., of Mr. J. 

 Jenner Weir, who joined the Society in 1845, and had been one of its most regular 

 attendants. He also commented on the scientific attainments of the deceased, and 

 his social qualities. Mr. Gross and Mr. Merrifield also spoke of their long friendship 

 with the deceased, and of the respect and esteem which they entertained for his 

 varied knowledge and amiability of disposition. 



Mr. W. Borrer, Jun., exhibited a wasp's nest which had been built in such a 

 way as to conceal the entrance thereto and to protect the whole nest from observa- 

 tion. He believed the nest to be that of Vespa vulgaris {cf. Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 London, 1892, pp. 20 and 21). Mr. McLachlan and Mr. Blandford made some 

 remarks on the subject. 



Mr. Gr. F. Hampson exhibited a specimen of Oaudaritis flavata, Moore, from 

 the Khari Hills, and called attention to the existence in the males of this species, in 

 the closely allied British species Cidaria dotata, Ijinn., and also in two Japanese 

 species (C. Agnes, Butl., and an undescribed species), of an organ on the under-side 

 of the fore- wing, which he suggested might be for stridulation ; this organ consist- 

 ing of a small scar of hyaline membrane situated just below the middle of vein 2, 

 which is much curved : this scar is fringed with long hair, and has running down 

 its middle a row of sharp spines situated on the aborted remains of vein 1, and 

 which is curved up close to vein 2. Mr. Hampson said that in the Japanese species 

 C. Fixreni of Brem., closely allied to flavata, the males have no trace of this organ ; 

 and he hoped that entomologists who have an opportunity of observing dotata in 

 life would make some experiments on living specimens during the ensuing summer ; 

 probably confining males and females together would lead to some results. The 

 President, Prof. E. B. Poulton, Lord Walsingham, and Mr. Hampson took part in 

 the discussion which ensued. 



The Eev. T. A. Marshall communicated a paper, entitled, " A Monograph of 

 the British Braconidce, Part V." 



