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with, the American species, Sarcopsylla penetrans, L., one of the most trouble- 

 some pests in Tropical America and the West Indies to man and various 

 domestic and wild animals, the female burrowing into the skin, usually of 

 the feet, but also of any other accessible region. He said that the distribu- 

 tion of the chigoe was recorded over Tropical America and the Antilles 

 from 80° N. to 30° S., and of late years it had established itself in Angola, 

 Loango, and the Congo. 



Mr. F. C. Adams exhibited a specimen of Mallota eristaloides, a species 

 of Diptera new to Britain, taken by himself in the New Forest, on July 20th 

 last. He said that the species had been identified by Mr. Austen, of the 

 British Museum, and that he had presented the specimen to the National 

 Collection. Mr. Verrall made some remarks on the species and on the distri- 

 bution of several allied species in the United Kingdom. Lord Walsingham, 

 as a Trustee of the British Museum, expressed his satisfaction at the 

 presentation of the specimen to that Institution. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited specimens of a form of Zygoma exulans, well scaled, 

 and with the nervules and fore legs of a decidedly orange colour, collected 

 during the last week in July by Dr. Chapman in the La Grave district of 

 the Alps, at a considerable elevation ; also specimens of the same species, 

 taken by Dr. Chapman near Cogne, and others from the Grison Valley, 

 which were less densely scaled. He also exhibited Scotch specimens, for com- 

 parison, and stated that he was of opinion that the latter were probably as 

 thickly scaled as the coutinental ones ; but that, owing to the differences in 

 the climate of Scotland and Switzerland, collectors had fewer opportunities 

 of getting the Scotch specimens in good condition. 



Mr. P. M. Bright exhibited a remarkable series of varieties of Arctia 

 menthastri from N. Scotland, also series of Liparis monacha (including dark 

 varieties) and Boarmia roboraria from the New Forest ; Zygeena exulans 

 from Braemar ; Noctua glareosa from Montrose and the Shetlands ; Agrotis 

 pyropHla from the Isle of Portland, and Pitcaple, N.B. ; red varieties of 

 Tceniocampa gracilis ; and a specimen of Sterrha sacraria, taken at light, at 

 Mudeford, in October, 1893 ; also living larvae of Eulepia cribrum. 



Mr. J.J. Walker exhibited a living specimen of a large species of Pulex, 

 which he believed to be Histricopsylla talpm, Curtis, taken at Hartlip, Kent. 

 Mr. Verrall and the Chairman made some remarks on this and allied species. 



Mr. K.J.Morton communicated a paper entitled "Palaearctic Nemourae." 



Lord Walsingham read a paper entitled u A Catalogue of the Ptero- 

 phoridae, Tortricidse, and Tineidse of the Madeira Islands, with Notes and 

 Descriptions of New Species." In this paper sixty-six species of Lepidoptera 

 belonging to these families were recorded as occurring in the Madeiras, of 

 which thirty were noticed as peculiar to the Islands, twelve as common to the 

 Madeiras and Canaries (of which two were known as occurring elsewhere), 

 and one extends its range only to North Africa. Over thirty species were 



