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stated that he had never found the larvae in the 



solid wood but always in the bark, and that the 

 ima^o emerges between 9 and 12 a.m., during 

 Tune Mr May, Hybernia defoliaria and H. auran- 

 tiaria, from Epping Forest and Wimbledon 

 Common. He said that he had found the males 

 of both species very abundant in the former locality, 

 but the females of H. aurantiaria were scarce ; he 

 had seen numbers of H. defoliaria females on the 

 trees during the afternoon. He also exhibited a 

 mole cricket, Gryllotalpa vulgaris, captured at 

 light at Merton, about 1887. Mr. S. J. Bell, 

 specimens of Metrocampa margantana and Hemthea 

 striata which had been killed with ammonia, but 

 their colour did not appear to have been affected. 

 Mr Prout, a series of the Sandown form of Agrohs 

 tritici (mostly var. aquilina), with two specimens 

 sent from Vienna under that name, though not 

 entirely agreeing with any known British form. 

 Mr Sauze, M electa armata (females), a bee parasitic . 

 on the various species oiBombus; Bombus harrisellus; 

 a rare black variety of the male of Bombus hortorum ; 

 a male Myrmosa melanocephala, one of the mutillidae, 

 or solitary ants; this species has an apterous 

 female, and is found in the nests of the various 

 species of Bombus. The following election of officers 

 then took place: President, Mr J. W. Tutt, Vice- 

 Presidents, Messrs. J. A. Clark and F. J. Han- 

 bury ■ Treasurer, Mr. J. A. Clark ; Librarians, 

 Messrs, T. Gurney and L. B. Prout ; Curators, 

 Capt B B. Thompson and Mr. A. F. Bayne ; 

 Secretaries, Messrs. C. Nicholson and L. J. Tre- 

 mayne- and five other members as Councillors 

 Messrs' Bacot, Bate, Burrows, Xewbery and 

 Oldham Messrs. A. Bacot and H. H. May were 

 appointed Auditors for 1895.— December i 7 th, 

 jSg 5 —Exhibits : Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, a speci- 

 men of Heliothis marginatus infested by a hair-worm 

 (Gordius aquaticus), which is parasitic on fish, 

 Crustacea, and land and fresh-water insects at 

 various stages of its existence. Also a preserved 

 larva of Ptilophora plumigera, showing a curious, 

 bifurcated appendage under the " chin " which was 

 not visible when the larva was at rest. Mr. Tutt 

 thought this structure was probably allied to the 

 slit "through which an acrid liquid is ejected 

 in Dicranura vinula and other larvae.— C. Nicholson 

 and L. J. Tremayne, Hon. Sees. 



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