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of such specimens at the sample rate would in future be irregular. Lord 

 Walsingham stated that he had had a long correspondence with the Post 

 Office authorities on the subject, and that the late Mr. Raikes, when 

 Postmaster-General, promised him in 1891 that such specimens should, 'so 

 far as the British Post Office was concerned, be transmitted at the sample 

 rates; and a letter to the same effect, from the late Sir Arthur Blackwood, 

 when Secretary of the Post Office, was published in the ' Proceedings' of 

 the Society for 1891. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited, for Mr. A. J. Hodges, a specimen of 

 Hydrilla palustris, from Wicken Fen ; also specimens of Caradrina 

 ambigua, from the Isle of Wight. He remarked that of the latter one 

 specimen has the hind margin of the right fore wing indented, and the 

 wing broadened as though from an injury to the pupa. In this wing the 

 margins of the large orbicular and reniform stigmata had become so joined 

 that the dividing lines had disappeared, and the stigmata were fused into 

 one irregularly. formed blotch. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited, for Mr. G. F. Wilson, F.R.S., of Weybridge, 

 a " grease-band " which had been tied round trees to prevent the females of 

 Cheimatobia brwnata from ascending the trunks for the purpose of oviposi- 

 tion ; the band was thickly covered with the bodies of the females, together 

 with a few males. 



Surgeon-Captain Manders exhibited a pair of Cheloni bifasciata, from 

 the Shan States, and called attention to the "assembling" habits of the 

 male, some hundreds of which were attracted by the numerous females 

 which emerged from the cocoons at sunset. 



Mr. B. A. Bower exhibited a beautiful variety of Zygoma lonicerce, Esp., 

 having the spots confluent, taken at Chattenden Wood, North Kent, in June 

 last; also a specimen of Tncurvaria tenuicornis, Stn., taken at Chislehurst, 

 in May, 1893. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. F. W. Urich, of Trinidad, a series of 

 males, females, and workers of Sericomyrmex opacus, Mayr, a species of 

 fungus-growing and fungus-eating ant. 



Colonel Swinhoe read a paper entitled " A List of the Lepidoptera of 

 the Khasia Hills," Part III. 



Mr. C. J. Gahan read a paper entitled " On the Longicorn Coleoptera 

 of the West Indian Islands." 



Mr. F. W. Urich communicated a paper entitled " Notes on the fungus- 

 growing and eating habits of Sericomyrmex opacus, Mayr." 



Prof. E. B. Poulton read a paper, by Prof. E. B. Titchener, entitled 

 " An apparent case of Sexual Preference in a male Insect." 



The Rev. H. S. Gorham communicated a paper entitled " Notes on 

 Herr A. Kuwert's 'Revision der Cleriden-gattung Omadius, Lap.'" — 

 H. Goss & W. W. Fowlkr, Hon. Secretaries. 



