308 [Novembur, 1890. 



observed that this species was abundant in the Pyrenees ; but although he had 

 frequently suggested to Dr. Staudinger and other European Lepidopterists that it 

 probably occurred in the Swiss or Austrian Alps, he had never been able to obtain 

 specimens from any other part of Europe except the Pyrenees. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited specimens of an extraordinary Neuropterous larva 

 found by Mr. B. Q-. Nevinson in tombs at Cairo. He said that this larva had been 

 assigned to the genus Nemoptera by Schaum, who described it as having been found 

 in tombs in Egypt (Berl. Ent. Zeitschrift, vol. i) ; and Koux had previously (Ann. 

 Sci. Nat., t. xxviii) described and figured it as an abnormal apterous hexapod, under 

 the name of Necrophilus arenarius* Mr. Nevinson supplemented these remarks 

 with an account of his capture of tlie specimens in the Egyptian tombs. 



Mr. Or. T. Baker exhibited a series of forms of species of the genus Boarmia 

 from Madeira ; and also a series of melanic varieties of Oracilaria syringella from 

 the neighbourhood of Birmingham. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited and remarked on a series of specimens of 

 Dermestes vulpinus, which had been doing much damage to the roofs of certain 

 soap-works in the neighbourhood of London, where it had no doubt been introduced 

 with bones and fat. 



Mr. R. W. Lloyd exhibited a specimen of Carahus catenulatus, in which the 

 femur of the right fore-leg was curiously dilated and toothed. He stated that he 

 took the specimen at Oxshott, Surrey, on the 27th September last. 



The Rev. C. F. Thornewill exhibited a black variety of the male of Argynnis 

 Aglaia, taken by himself in July last on Cannock Chase ; also a number of living 

 larvae of a species of Eupithecia feeding on the flower-heads of Tanacetum vulgare 

 collected in a limestone quarry in Leicestershire. He expressed some doubt as to 

 the identity of the species, but the general opinion was that the larvae were only 

 those of Eupithecia abxynthiata . 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. Gr. Bryant, a variety of the larva of Trichiura 

 cratcBgi. 



Mr. C. G". Barrett exhibited a specimen of Plusia moneta, Fabr., a species new 

 to Britain, taken at Reading by Mr. W. Holland in July last. It was stated that 

 the first specimen of this species was taken at Dover last June, and was now in 

 the collection of Mr. Sydney Webb, of that town. 



Mr. W. Dannatt exhibited a variety of Fapilio hectorides, ? , from Paraguay. 

 Mr. Osbert Salvin said he believed he had seen this form before. 



Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited a curious little larva-like creature, found by Mr. Green 

 in a rapid mountain stream in Ceylon, and observed that there was some doubt as to 

 its true position in the animal kingdom. It was made up of six distinct segments, 

 each of wliich bore a single pair of laterally directed processes or unjointed append- 

 ages. Mr. Hampson remarked that the appendages were very suggestive of the 

 parapodia of certain chsetopod worms, but that all the known polychsetous worms 

 were marine. Lord Walsingham and Mr. McLachlan expressed an opinion tliat the 

 animal was of myriopodous affinities, and was not the larva of an insect. 



Mr. Baker read a paper entitled, " Notes on tlie genitalia of a gynandromor- 

 phous Eronia Hippia." — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



* Cf. also Wcstwood's " Iiitroductiuu," vol. ii, p. S(!, fig. C6, i. — R. McL. 



