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the British Museum. The deficiencies of previous accounts were made 

 good, and their errors corrected. 



A communication from Mr. W. Bateson contained a correction of a 

 passage in a paper on Colour-variation in Flat Fishes recently read before 

 the Society. 



A communication from Dr. C. Brunner von Wattenvvyl gave a list of 

 the Orthoptera of the Hawaiian Islands. It combined the result of the 

 examination of Mr. Perkins's first collections with what was previously 

 known on this subject, a total of twenty-nine species being thus obtained. 

 A new genus and six new species were described. — P. L. Solater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



October 16th. — Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



Sir Gilbert T. Carter, K.C.M.G., of Government House, Lagos, West 

 Africa; and Mr. Sydney Wacher, F.R.C.S., of Dane John, Canterbury 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The President announced the deaths of Prof. C. C. Babington, the last 

 but one of the original members of the Society, and Prof. C. V. Riley, one 

 of the ten Honorary Fellows of the Society, and commented upon their 

 scientific work. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blaudford spoke at some length on the valuable services 

 rendered by the late Prof. Riley to the cause of Economic Entomology, and 

 referred to the enormous number of papers and memoirs on the subject 

 which he had published. 



Mr. F. C. Adams exhibited (1) a series of nineteen Merodon equestris, 

 containing several varieties, showing their resemblance to wild bees of the 

 family Apidse, and made a few remarks on mimicry ; (2) specimens of 

 Leptomorphus walkeri, Curt., taken in the New Forest in September last; 



(3) Melanostoma hyalinatum, Fin. (male and female), from a series of 

 eighteen also taken in the New Forest in the latter part of August ; and 



(4) a specimen of Spilomyia speciosa, Rossi, from the New Forest. 



Mr. Euock exhibited, and made remarks on, specimens of the mature 

 sexes, and the nest of Atypus piceus, the British Trap-door Spider; 

 specimens of Andrena atriceps, and males of A.fulva. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited a long series of Erebia nerine, captured in the Tyrol, 

 and read notes on the species. 



Lord Walsiugham exhibited the types and paratypes of Pseudodoxia 

 limulus (Rghfr.), together with the larval cases and a preserved larva. 

 In 1889 Herr Rogeuhofer gave the name Fumea? limulus to the case and 

 its contents, and Mr. McLachlan agreed from the evidence then adduced 

 that the insect was lepidopterous rather than trichopterous. 



