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A communication was read from Mr. Edwin C. Reed, containing a list 

 of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Chili. 



Mr. H. Druce read a paper on Bornean Butterflies of the family 

 Lycanidce, in which he had catalogued all the species already recorded from 

 that island, and gave descriptions of a considerable number of new species, 

 principally from Mount Kina-Balu. The number of butterflies of this 

 family previously recorded from Borneo was about 75, and this paper 

 contained references to about 220. 



A communication was read from Dr. A. G. Butler, containing an account 

 of a small collection of Butterflies, sent by Mr. R. Crawshay from the 

 country west of Lake Nyasa. Five species were described as new. 



Dr. J. Anderson read a paper describing a collection of Reptiles and 

 Batrachians made by Col. Yerbury at Aden and the neighbourhood during 

 the past winter. 



Mr. Boulenger gave an account of the Reptiles and Batrachians collected 

 by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his recent expedition in Western 

 Somaliland and the Galla country. 



This Meeting closed the Session 1894-95. 



Entomological Society of London. 



June bth, 1895. — Lord Walsingham, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



Dr. Sharp exhibited, on behalf of Dr. G. D. Haviland, two living species 

 of Calotermes from Borneo. Specimens were also exhibited to illustrate the 

 neoteinic forms that were produced in Borneo after a community had been 

 artificially " orphaned." Prof. Riley remarked that in many cases it would be 

 extremely difficult to artificially "orphan " a nest without destroying it; he 

 also commented on the short time in which the queen appeared to have 

 been developed, and on the apparently rapid development of the wing-pads, 

 which usually cannot take place except after several moults ; and he 

 expressed his opinion that further information on these points was much 

 to be desired. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited examples of the female of Pyrrhosoma minium, 

 Harris, having the abdomen incrusted with whitish mud through ovipositing 

 in a ditch in which the water was nearly all dried up. He had noticed the 

 same thing in other species of Agrionidce. 



Herr Jacoby exhibited four varieties of Smerinthus tilia. 



Mr. Enock exhibited specimens of the thistle-gall fly, Trypeta cardui, and 

 also of Caraphractus cinctus, Haliday (= Polynema natans, Lubbock). 



M. Alfred Wailly exhibited living larvae of Rhodia fugax, and also 

 a cocoon of a bright green colour, differing considerably in shape from those 

 of all the other known silk-producing Bombyces. 



