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hoot), while on the other hand the ovipositor, although not extruded, ia very 

 distinct and centrally situated, and the body has every appearance of still con- 

 taining numerous eggs. — C. Gr. B.]. 



Limnophilus nigriceps, Zett., at Ipswich. — Among several other Trichoptera 

 taken on the banks of the Gripping on October 9th Mr. McLachlan has picked out 

 this as being a species worthy of mention. I have little doubt I could have taken 

 many more if I had liked to do so, but this is the first time it has been observed in 

 the district, and, as far as I am aware, in Suffolk. — Clattde Moelet, Everton 

 House, Ipswich : December 1th, 1897. 



Limnophilus affinis at sea ten miles from land. — When the Kev. A. E. Eaton 

 was on his way home from Algeria by sea, a ? of this small caddis fly flew on board 

 the steamer on September 12th last, when ten miles off the Sussex coast. This power 

 of making long flights may have connection with the wide distribution of the species, 

 which probably inhabits the whole of Europe, and which I possess, or have seen, 

 from Eastern Siberia, the Caspian, North Persia, Iceland, and Madeira. The larva 

 of this species can exist in brackish water.— R. McLachlan, Lewisham, London : 

 December 4th, 1897. 



^oci Cities. 



BiEMiNGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY : October 18th, 1897. — Mr. Gr. T. 

 Bethttne-Bakee, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. C. Bradley showed the following Diptera from Sutton : — Machimus 

 atricapiUus, the first true Asilid he had seen there ; Eelophilus trivittatus ; and 

 Canomyia alpina, a species which is marked doubtfully British in Mr. Yerrall's list, 

 but has just been confirmed by Mr. Grimshaw in the Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1897, 

 from specimens taken in South Ayrshire. Mr. Bradley had taken a score in his 

 garden during the summer, all males ; he said that it was so like Musca vomitoria 

 that it was probably overlooked on that account. Mr. A. H. Martineau, Asilus 

 crabroniformis from Nenin, North Wales, also a smaller species of Asilus with a 

 Lyccena Alexis in its grasp. Mr. Bethune-Baker, two drawers from his collection 

 containing a portion of the genus Pieris. Mr. P. W. Abbott, Deilephila galii from 

 Wallasey, where the larva was found this year by Mr. Yictor Wilson ; a short series 

 of Lithosia caniola from Soutli Devon, August, 1897. Mr. G. H. Kenrick read a 

 paper upon " Mimicry," in which he pointed out all the difiiculties of the present 

 theories, and said that he believed we ought not to arrive at any conclusions until 

 we had more and better evidence ; he exhibited a very fine lot of examples of both 

 Batesian and Miillerian mimicry, exhibiting both phenomena in a particularly perfect 

 state. — CoLBEAN J. Wainweight, Eon. Secretary. 



Cambeidge Entomological and Natueal Histoex Society : October 

 29lh, 1897. 



Mr. Farren exhibited H. lineola from Burwell Fen, P. xanthomista from the 

 Isle of Man, D. rubiginea (reared) from Reading, and A. occulta from Rannoch. 

 Mr. Lefroy, specimens of some salt water insects from South Wales; a beetle 



