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Dr. D. Sharp cihibitod a photograph received from Prof. Exner, of Vienna, 

 showing the picture obtained at the back of the eye of Lampyris sphndidula. He 

 stated tliat this picture is continuous and not reversed, and shows the outlines of 

 lights and shades of objects at a distance as well as of those closec to the eye. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited a specimen of Zygana filipendul(B,'S!KV. chry^anthemi, 

 which he had taken at Ehinefield, in the New Forest, on July 15th last. Mr. P. B- 

 Mason said this variety was known on the Continent of Europe, and was figured by 

 Hiibner in his " Sarnmlung," a copy of which work he exhibited. He added that 

 lie possessed a similar specimen of this variety taken by Mr. Nowers in Wyre Forest, 

 Worcestershire. Colonel Swinhoe stated that he possessed a similar variety of a 

 species of Syntomis. 



The Rev. Dr. Walker exhibited drawings illustrating the various forms of 

 Crymodes exulis occurring in Iceland which he had shown at the October meeting 

 of the Society ; he also exhibited seven varieties of 3Ielanippe thufearia, nine of 

 Coremia mnnitata, and a few of Noctua conflna, illustrating the varied forms of 

 these species occurring in Iceland. Mr. Mason said that the only British specimens 

 of N. conflua which he had seen resembling the Iceland form of the species were 

 taken at Wolsingham, Durham. 



Mons. A. Wailly exhibited and remarked on a number of Lepidoptera from 

 Japan. The collection comprised about thirty species, eleven of which, it was 

 stated, were not represented in the British Museum collections. 



Mr. A. C. Horner exhibited a number of rare species of Coleoptera, including 

 Homalota crassicumin, Gyll., II. fimoriim, Bris., H. humeralis, Kr., and Euryporus 

 picipes, Pk.. collected at Church Stretton, Shropshire ; and also Amara nitida, 

 Sturm, Oxypoda amcena, Fair., Homalota testaceipes, Heer, Lithocharis apicalis, Kr., 

 and EpurcBa neglecta, Heer, from the neighbourhood of Tonbridge. 



Mr. Meyer-Darcis exhibited a specimen of Termitobia physogastra, Gangelb., 

 a new genus and species of Brachelytra obtained in a white-ants' nest from the 

 Congo. Dr. Sharp commented on the interesting nature of the exhibition. 



Colonel Swinhoe exhibited a collection of moths from Southern India, which 

 comprised about forty species. He also read a paper describing these species, 

 entitled, " New Species of Moths from Southern India." 



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

 British Braconidft. Part iv." 



Lord Walsingham read a paper, entitled, " African Micro- Lepidoptera," con- 

 taining descriptions of seventy-one new species, and of the following nine new 

 genera, viz. ■.—Autochthonux (type, A. chalybiellus, Wlsm), Scalidoma (type. Tinea 

 horridella, Wkr.), Ba7-baroscardia (type, B. fasciata, Wlsm.), Odites (type, O. 

 natalei).sis, Wlsm.), Idiopieryx (type, Cryptolechia obliquel/a, WUm.), Microthamna 

 (type, M. metallifera, Wlsm ), Licmocera (type, L. lyoneliella, Wlsm.), Oxyma- 

 chceris (tyi)e, 0. niveocenuna , Wlsm.), and Micropostega (type, 3/. ceneofasciata, 

 Wlsm.). Several Eurojiean and American genera were recorded as new to the 

 African fauna, and the occurrence of one Australian and two Indian genera was 

 also noted. — H. Goss, Hon. ISec. 



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