120 [October, 1887. 



Entomological Society of London : Sept. 7th, 1887. — Dr. David Sharp, 

 y.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of 

 "Woodstock Eoad, Oxford, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a living larva of Myrmeleon europceus, which he had 

 taken at Fontainebleau on the 6th August last. 



Mr. Elisha exhibited a series of bred specimens of both sexes of Zelleria 

 hepariella, Stn.; and also, on behalf of Mr. C. S. Gregson, a series of eighty Tarieties 

 of Abraxas grossulariata, selected from the specimens bred during the year 1886, 

 from 4000 larvae obtained from eggs laid by selected varieties, the result of crossing 

 and interbreeding for more than twenty years. 



Mr. Stainton remarked that the female of Zelleria hepariella kad until lately 

 been considered a distinct species, and was known as Zelleria insignipennella, but 

 Mr. Elisha had proved the specific identity. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited specimens of Cramhus alpinellus, C. contaminellus, Lita 

 semidecandrella, L. marmorea (dark forms), and L. hlandulella (a new species), 

 Doryphora paliistrella, and Depressaria Yeatiana, all collected at Deal during last 

 July and August. 



Mr. Stainton observed that Crambus alpinellus was so named from the earliest 

 captures of the species having been made on the lower parts of the Alps, but that it 

 had since been found on the low sandy ground of North Germany, and its capture 

 at Deal quite agreed with what was now known of the distribution of the species in 

 Germany. It was first recorded as a British species by Dr. Knaggs in 1871, from two 

 specimens taken at Southsea by Mr. Moncreaff. Mr. Stainton further observed that 

 he had named Mr. Tutt's new species blandulella from its similarity to a small 

 maculea, of which one of the best known synonyms was blandella. He also 

 remarked that Deal was a new locality for Doryphora palustrella, which had hitherto 

 only been recorded from Wicken Fen and the Norfolk Fens in England, and from 

 the neighbourhood of f^tettin on the Continent. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Coote, a variety of Lyccena PhlcBas ; 

 also a number of Stenobothrus rujipes, and three specimens of Coccinella labilis, 

 recently taken at Heme Bay. 



Mr. Martin Jacoby exhibited specimens of Spilopyra sumptiiosa, Baly, and 

 Sybriacus magnificus, Baly. He also exhibited several species of Galerucidce, 

 belonging to a genus which he proposed to call Neobrotica, closely resembling in 

 shape and coloration certain species of Diabrotica, but differing therefrom in structui-al 

 characters. He remarked that the late Baron Yon Harold had described a Galeruca 

 from Africa, which, except in generic characters, exactly resembled the South 

 American genus Dircema. 



Dr. Sharp communicated a paper, by Mr. Thomas L. Casey, " On a new genus 

 of African Fselaphidce." 



Mr. Bridgman communicated a paper entitled " Further Additions to the Eev. 

 T. A. Marshall's Catalogue of British IchneumonidcB." 



Mr. Distant read a paper entitled " Contributions to a Knowledge of Oriental 

 Jthynchota." 



Mr. Enock read notes " On the Parasites of the Hessian Fly," and exhibited 

 specimens of injured barley. A discussion ensued, in which Dr. Sharp, Mr. Jacoby, 

 Mr. Billups, Mr. Waterhouse, and others took part. — H. Goss, Son. Secretary. 



