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thought further specimens for examination were required before attempting 

 to determine its position, which was at present doubtful. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford communicated a paper entitled " Descriptions 

 of New Oriental Scolytida" 



April 1st. — Prof. Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Luke Bishop and Mr. Robert Nesham were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



Mr. Champion exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Blatch, specimens of Quedius 

 riparius, Kellner, captured in February last on the banks of running 

 streams at Porlock, Somerset. The insect was an interesting and un- 

 expected addition to the British list, and the second recent novelty from 

 the west country, the other being Ochthebius lejolisi, Muls. and Rey, found 

 at Ilfracombe in June last by Mr. Bennett. Mr. Waterhouse had seen 

 specimens of the Quedius from Wales and Scotland. 



Mr. Champion also exhibited a small collection of Coleoptera made by 

 Mr. 0. V. Aplin in Southern Tunis during various expeditions inland from 

 Gabes. The collection included some interesting Tenebrionida of the 

 genera Pimelia and Adesmia. Mr. Aplin noticed specimens of these 

 insects impaled by Shrikes. Dr. Sharp, Mr. R. Trimen, and Mr. McLachlan 

 made some remarks on the subject of the impalement of insects by birds. 



Mr. Goss exhibited, for Mr. Cameron, an apterous male of Mutilla 

 contracta, taken by Mr. Rothney at Barrackpore, India. The specimen 

 was stated to be the first recorded instance in this species of a wingless 

 male, and was also abnormal in having the thorax incised laterally. 



Dr. Sharp called attention to the fact that at a recent meeting of the 

 Society (March 20th, 1895, see Proc. 1895, p. x) a specimen of a supposed 

 dimorphic form of one of the species of Dytiscus was examined, and Prof. 

 Stewart enquired whether any anatomical examination had been made of 

 the sexual organs. Dr. Sharp said that in ■ Comptes Rendus Soc. Bordeaux,' 

 1894, there was an account of the examination of the sexual organs of the 

 supposed second form of 1). marginalia by M. Peytoureau, who came to the 

 conclusion that it was really a distinct species, which he called D. herberti. 

 Prof. Poulton exhibited examples of the type labels now in use in the 

 Hope Collection at Oxford, and illustrated their employment by projecting 

 on the screen, by the lantern, a photograph of the Westwood types of 

 African Eusemice, described in Oates' ' Matabele Land '(Lond., 1881). He 

 said that such labels, having been once set up in type, could be reproduced 

 in electrotype very cheaply and efficiently. Black ink was considered better 

 than red on account of its greater permanence. Mr. Verrall was of opinion 

 that no species should be described from a single type, but from many 

 specimens, and he wished every so-called " type " could be destroyed 

 as soon as a species had been described from it. He knew of cases in 





