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Britain, and having been taken on January 31-J, 1885, in 

 Headley Lane. 



MAY 7 th, 1885. 

 R. SOUTH, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. T. R. Eillups exhibited living specimens of Carabns 

 auratus, taken on April 30th, in the Borough Market, from a 

 basket of vegetables imported from the South of France, 



AUGUST 6th, 1885. 



R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited a rare species of Proctro- 

 trupidce, Inostemna Boscii Jur, taken on a sunflower leaf at 

 Peckham; also the egg case of a mantis, fuund in tobacco 

 leaves by Mr. Adkin. 



SEPTEMBER 3rd, 1885. 



R. SOUTH, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited species of Arachnida, of the 

 order Solpugidce, which appeared to belong to the genus 

 Galeodes. Mr. Weir said these specimens were taken in the 

 Kalahari Desert by Mr. G. A. Farini, and he briefly referred 

 to the structure and size of these Arthropods, they being 

 about two and a half inches in length, and the legs extending 

 over six inches. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited Ledra aurita, L., Centrotas 

 cornutus, Linn., Gargara genistcs, Fab., Ulopa reticulata, Fab. 

 etc., and read the following notes : — 



"The insects exhibited belong to the sub-order Hemiptera- 

 Homoptera. They include a very extensive set of insects, in 

 which the upper and lower wings are generally homogeneous, 

 I mean by that of the same kind or nature. The antennas 

 are in most of them very short and bristly, and consisting of 

 three joints, the head having only two ocelli. They are repre- 

 sented in this country by some fifty-two genera and two hundred 

 and seventy species. If strange variety of form, in fact, if the 

 most outre and bizarre shapes be the object of admiration, 



