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posterior cell is almost closed (Zetterstedt writes : " 4 : tus longitudin. angulo obtuso 

 curvatus ; area inodice aperta in apice alse terminatur "). Here we have an 

 additional reason for the foundation of a new genus for the reception of Phasia 

 Rothi, Ztt., which, owing to the presence of abdominal macrochaetse, would form a 

 connecting link between the rest of the " Section " Phasia {PhasincB, of Schiner) 

 and the nearest allied setigerous genera. 



British Museum (Natural History), 



Cromwell Eoad, London, S.W. : 

 December 1th, 1897. 



The Meeting of the International Congress of Zoology at Cambridge in 1898. — It 

 is pretty well known amongst Zoologists that the Fourth Meeting of this Congress 

 will commence at Cambridge on August 23rd. The First was at Paris in 1889, the 

 Second at Moscow in 1892, the Third at Leyden in 1895. The President for the 

 Meeting is the E.t. Hon. Sir John Lubbock (in place of Sir W. Flower, who resigned 

 on account of ill-health), and there is a very strong and repi-esentative Executive 

 and General Committee. A powerful Reception Committee is already seeking to 

 secure accommodation for the visitors. Former Meetings have been most enjoyable, 

 and attended by visitors from all countries in which Zoology is cultivated. This 

 one on our own shores cannot fail to equal, if not to exceed, any of its predecessors. 

 It is anticipated that a large number of Foreign Entomologists will attend, and they 

 will no doubt receive a hearty welcome. Any further information can be obtained 

 by applying to Prof. P. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., 3, Hanover Square, London, W. — Eds. 



The Ragonot Collection of Micro-Lepidoptera. — It will be of interest to Ento- 

 mologists generally to learn that this very important Collection has been given by 

 Madame Ragonot to the Museum of Natural History at Paris, and is now installed 

 there in the Entomological Gallery, where it can be consulted at all times. — Eds. 



Homalota claneula,Er.,near Chesham. — During the early part of last August I took 

 seven specimens of a small and peculiar looking Homalota, which I thought would 

 probably prove to be clancula ; Mr. Champion has kindly examined them for me, 

 and returns them as that insect. These specimens were found in rotting leaves, 

 which lay many inches deep, almost choaking up several pools, in a wood in this 

 district. A small isolated deposit of the Reading Beds upon the chalk gives a clayey 

 character to the parts of the wood in which the capture was made, some other parts 

 being more or less sandy. When running, this species elevates the last three or four 

 segments of the hind body slightly, much after the manner of Habrocerus, and its 

 strong resemblance to a small Placusa is very striking. — E. G. Elliman, Chesham, 

 Bucks : January 17th, 1898. 



Andricus {Aphilotrix) corticis, L., and A. gemmatus, Adler. — I obtained galls 

 of A. corticis from the bark of an oak in January, 1897 ; the flies emerged in April. 

 I at once placed them on a young oak tree, when they began immediately to deposit 

 eggs in the buds. On May 30th I could plainly detect the young galls oi gemm,atus, 

 and on June 2l8t the flies began to appear and continued until the 27th, the males 

 preceding the females by three days. The galls are foi*med on the petioles and 



