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of the insect, many others had emerged in its transit from Sydney, where the species 

 was said to occur freely. Mr. Billups, Meoptts trispinosus, Wat., from New Zealand ; 

 Poropleiira monstrosa, Olivr., from Brazil, and read notes relative to his exhibit. 

 Mr. Billups also showed galls collected at West Cliff, Colorado, by Mr. Cockerell, 

 who wrote that the rose-galls were of three species : — Rhodites ignata, Osten-Sacken, 

 from which an abundance of a parasitic Cynipid, Perichistus pirata, Osten-Sacken, 

 would be bred, Rhodites fusiformii, new species, and the little blister-like galls on 

 the leaves would produce Rhodites roscefolice, Cockerell ; of the willow-galls, the 

 reddish-fusiform ones produced Cecidomyia salicis-siliqua, Walsh : the bred galls 

 were those of Cecidomyia salicis-strobiloides, Osten-Sacken. An exhibition of 

 microscopical objects was then given, Messrs. Collins, W. West, E. Adkin, T. R. 

 Billups, Cameron and others assisting. 



March I3th, 1890.— The President in the Chair. 



Messrs. A. E. Peake, of Tooting, and E. W. Sinclair-Cox, of the Temple, were 

 elected Members. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited typical specimens of Agrotis obelisca, Hb., from Germany, 

 the var. hastifera, Donz., from Hungary, and some picked specimens captured by 

 Mr. A. J. Hodges in the Isle of Wight, of a different type to var. hastifera, but 

 much nearer that than the typical obelisca. Mr. R. Adkin, a series of Mania 

 typica, L., and said that the larvae were found last autumn, fed up in a warm room, 

 the majority of them pupated in November, the imagines appearing in January and 

 February of the present year ; he had found a similar method of forcing the larvse 

 of some of the TriphcencB that he had tried equally successful, and he believed that 

 many other species of Noctu<B, whose larvae hibernated, might be similarly treated 

 with good results. Mr. Gerrard exhibited living larvae and pupae, with set examples 

 of the imagines, of a species of Ephestia, which were discovered in old samples of 

 rice. Mr. Mansbridge showed living larvae and imagines of a species of Tinece found 

 feeding in samples of fish-guano, and said that the guano was brought from Bret- 

 tesnaes, on the N.W. coast of Norway ; the larvae inhabited a kind of tube or 

 gallery, which was formed with particles of the food united with silk ; the larvae, 

 before changing into pupae, worked their way upwards and pupated just below the 

 surface. Mr. West (Greenwich), a collection of Coleoptera from the Columbian 

 Republic. Mr. Billups, a specimen of Ichneumon Haglundi, Holmg., a species new 

 to Britain, bred by Mr. R. Adkin, from a larva of Arctia fuliginosa, received from 

 Scotland ; a series of Apanteles emarginatus, Nees, bred from O-racilaria omissella, 

 by Mr. Elisha ; a specimen of an Hemipteron, taken alive in the Borough Market 

 from a packet of bananas from the West Indies ; a species of ChrysomelidcB found 

 alive in a barrel of grapes from Malaga ; and a living female specimen of Bomhus 

 Latreillellus, 'Kirhj, found among lettuce from the South of France. — H.W. Baekee, 

 JIo7i. Sec. 



Entomological Society oe London: March 5th, 1890. — Heney J. Elwes, 

 Esq., F.L.S, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. G. H. Kenrick, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, and the Right Hon. Lord 

 Rendlesham, of Rendlesham Hall, Woodbridge, Suffolk, were elected Fellows. 



