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the males of a Burmese moth of the family Agaristidce, and of a buzzing 

 sound in an allied Australian form, both of which have a patch of ribbed 

 hyaline membrane below the costa of the fore wing. The sound was 

 attributed to the friction of spines, attached in the former-to the first pair 

 of legs, in the latter to the second pair, on the ribbed membrane. A descrip- 

 tion was then given of the transformation of the costal half of the hind wing 

 in the Noctuid genus Patula into a large scent-gland, and of the manner 

 in which this had distorted the neuration. The still greater distortion of 

 the neuration in the allied genus Argida was attributed to its once having 

 possessed a similar scent-gland, now become rudimentary by disuse. 



A communication was read from Prof. W. N. Parker on the. retention of 

 functional gills in young frogs (liana temporaria), which he had succeeded 

 in producing in specimens reared in his laboratory. Prof. Parker described 

 the method employed with this object, and made remarks on the way in 

 which the fore limbs are protruded. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read a paper entitled " A contribution to the 

 Classification of Ophiuroids," to which were added descriptions of some new 

 and little-known forms of this group. 



Mr. M. F. Woodward gave an account of an abnormal earthworm 

 (Lumbricus terrestris), possessing seven pairs of ovaries situated on the 

 eighth and following somites to the fourteenth. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



Feb. 24, 1892.— Mr. Frederick DuCane Godman, F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The Secretary read a letter from General Sir Dighton Probyn, K.C.B., 

 Comptroller to the Prince of Wales, conveying the thanks of the Prince 

 and Princess of Wales for the expression of condolence with their Royal 

 Highnesses in their severe bereavement, which had been forwarded to Sir 

 Dighton Probyn by the Secretary, on behalf of the Society. 



Mr. Walter Cuthbert Biddell, of 32, The Grove, Bolton Gardens, 

 S.W. ; and Mr. Douglas Stuart Steuart, of North Leigh, Prestwich, 

 Lancashire, were elected Fellows; and Mr. Philip de la Garde, R.N., was 

 admitted into the Society. 



The President referred to the loss the Society had recently sustained by 

 the death of Mr. Henry Walter Bates, F.R.S., who had twice been its 

 President ; and he also read a copy of the resolution of sympathy and 

 condolence with Mrs. Bates and her family, in their bereavement, which had 

 been passed by the Council at their meeting that evening. 



Mr. Frederick C. Adams exhibited a monstrous specimen of Telephone 

 rusticus, taken in the New Forest, in which the left mesothoracic leg 



