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Mr. Janson exhibited some Coleoptera and Lepidoptera sent from Perthshire by 

 Mr. Turner. 



Mr. Scott exhibited Bolitobius inclinans, Mycetoporus lucidus and Elachista gan- 

 gabella, and made the following observations respecting them : — 



Bolitobius inclinans, Grav, A single example taken at Coombe Wood. Authors, 

 so far as I am aware, have not observed, or if so not described, the remarkable develop- 

 ment of the basal joint of the intermediate tarsi. 



Mycetoporus lucidus, 'Enchs. Only three or four individuals of this species are 

 known as having been taken in England previously. One specimen also taken at 

 Coombe Wood. 



Elachista gangahella, Zeller. The type form of this species has a white fascia on 

 the anterior wings, as in E. zonariella and others of the group. The specimen 

 exhibited, however, is entirely black. In certain lights there are very faint indications 

 of the fascia. Bred by me last year from larvae received from Mr. Stainton. It seems 

 to be quite a south country species, and very local. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited a small folding box, manufactured by Mr. Harris, 

 of Oak Lane, City, for the purpose of transmitting small articles by post ; from its 

 lightness and strength he considered it would prove useful for entomological purposes. 



Mr. Saunders also exhibited some small galls growing in close clusters, found 

 under the ground on the roots of common hazel. He had not yet succeeded in rearing 

 the insect which caused them, but considered it must prove a distinct species from the 

 Cynips Quercus-radicis, the galls produced by which are found on the oak, generally 

 on the surface or immediately above ground. 



Mr. Saunders also exhibited an apparently new species of Harpalus, taken in Ire- 

 land by Mr. Bouchard ; and illustrations of the economy of a beetle, apparently of the 

 genus Urodon, from the Cape of Good Hope, which, in the larva state, inhabits one 

 of the cells in the seed-vessel of a Mesembryanthemum, forcing the remaining cells, 

 which become abortive, into a very small space. 



Mr. Walker observed that the galls exhibited by Mr. Saunders were probably 

 similar to one which Mr. Bouchard had lately found at the root of an oak tree. This 

 gall was in the possession of Mr. Smith, who has reared numerous Cynipidae from it, 

 and also specimens of a Pteromalus, which much resembles P. Puparum,the butterfly- 

 chrysalis parasite. 



Mr. H. Cooke exhibited a hybrid moth which had been obtained in the following 

 manner. He had bred a considerable number of Ephyra trilinearia and E. orbicularia, 

 and had repeatedly endeavoured to pair the opposite sexes of these species, but only 

 succeeded in one instance in doing so, the insects being a male E. orbicularia and 

 female E. trilinearia. The female deposited eight eggs, all of which hatched, and the 

 larvae in due course were full-grown, at which time they presented great dissimilarity 

 in appearance, two or three exactly resembling the larvae of E. trilinearia, while others 

 were precisely like those of E. orbicularia, the remainder differing much from those of 

 either parent. Although all of them seemed to enter the pupa state in the most satis- 

 factory manner, yet only the one moth exhibited, and that somewhat crippled in the 

 posterior wings, was produced. This insect bore very little resemblance to either 

 species, the colour and markings approaching nearer to E. poraria, the central fascia 

 common to all the wings being broad and well defined. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen of Smerinthus ocellatus, having one side of thei 



