108 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper upon the anatomy of the Scissor-bill 

 (Rhynchops), in which the structure of the viscera and muscles of this bird 

 was described. The muscular anatomy was found to differ from that of 

 the Gulls, Skuas, and Terns, and was held amply to justify its separation 

 as a distinct subfamily, Rhynchopince. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



Feb. 5th. — Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., and Mr. Walter 

 F. H. Blandford were nominated Vice-Presidents for the session 1896-97. 



The Rev. John Hocking, M.A., and Mr. J. C. Moberley, M.A., were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited pupae and portions of pupae of a silk-moth, 

 Antheraa mylitta, selected from some scores of specimens, which he had 

 opened to see if they showed stages of development agreeing with the 

 examples given by Dr. Spuler, and the results confirmed Dr. Spuler's 

 researches. Some specimens showed the tracheae, the median vein having 

 two branches, very rarely emitting a third branch in the direction of the 

 radial; other specimens had faint indications of the veins and of the discoidal 

 spot of the imago. Even at this very early stage, the vein branching from 

 the subcostal to unite with the upper radial, and the short branch uniting 

 the second median with the third median veins were distinctly traceable, 

 no tracheae being yet visible in these branches. 



Mr. E. E. Green remarked that in the Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 601, 

 there was a short paper by the late Prof. Westwood, describing a curious 

 little insect from Ceylon under the name of Dyscritina longisetosa. Prof. 

 Westwood believed his typical specimens to be immature. Mr. Green now 

 exhibited what he supposed to be a later stage of the same species, though 

 it differed in some particulars from Westwood's description and figure — 

 notably in the proportions of the caudal appendages. Prof. Westwood had 

 pointed out the affinities of Dyscritina with the Forficulidce, This was 

 apparent in the specimen under consideration. Putting aside the nature of 

 the caudal appendages, the insect was essentially an earwig. The specimen 

 exhibited was taken in the Punduloya district of Ceylon, at an elevation of 

 about 4000 feet. Mr. Green said he had more than once seen this insect 

 under loose pieces of bark and in crevices of rocks, and had always been 

 struck by its likeness to an earwig, both in appearance and habits. 



Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited a Goliath beetle, from the Upper Congo, 

 which he believed to be the male of Goliathus russus, described from a 

 unique female example in the Berlin Museum. 



Mr. Blandford referred to the case of the eye of a boy affected with 

 inflammation caused by the hairs of the larvae of Lasiocampa rubi ; the 



