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Fellows ; and Mr. Oliver Goldthwait and Mr. John W. Downing were 

 admitted into the Society. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. Edwards, Norwich, two 

 specimens of Ilybkis subceneus, Er., and a single specimen of Bidessus 

 unistriatus, Schr. Mr. Champion alluded to the fact that the only recorded 

 British specimens of the first-mentioned beetle had been taken many years 

 ago at Peckham. The species is very closely allied to I. fenestrates, F., 

 but the posterior tarsi of the male have the joints externally margined at 

 their lower edge, whereas in the male of the last-mentioned species they are 

 not margined ; this character was very plain in the male specimen sent by 

 Mr. Edwards. Lord Walsingham, in alluding to the exhibit, referred to 

 the list of Norfolk Coleoptera compiled some years ago by Mr. Crotch, 

 which appears to have been lost sight of. 



Mr. Verrall exhibited a specimen of a fly in amber, belonging to a 

 genus allied to the genus Psychoda. 



Mr. M'Lachlan alluded to the damage done by insects to orange-trees 

 in Malta, and stated that the Rev. G. Henslow had lately been studying 

 the question; one of the chief depredators was the widely-spread "fly," 

 Ceratitis citriperda, well known as devastating the orange. He found, 

 however, that another and more serious enemy was the larva of a large 

 Longicorn beetle (Cerambyx miles, Bon.), which bores into the lower part of 

 the stem and down into the roots, making large galleries ; in all probability 

 the larva, or that of an allied species, is the true Cossus of the ancients. 

 Lord Walsingham stated that a species of Prays allied to P. oleellus and 

 our common P. curtisellus was known to feed in the buds of the orange 

 and lemon in Southern Europe. Mr. Pascoe, Mr. Champion, and others, 

 took part in the discussion which followed. 



The Secretary, on behalf of Miss Carr, exhibited a portfolio of drawings 

 of Indian Lepidoptera and their food-plants. 



The following papers were communicated, and were read by the 

 Secretary : — " Notes on the species of the families Lycida and Lampyrida 

 contained in the Imperial Museum of Calcutta, with descriptions of new 

 species, and a list of the species at present described from India," by the 

 Rev. H. S. Gorham ; and " A Catalogue of the Rhopalocerous Lepidoptera 

 collected in the Shan States, with notes on the country and climate," by 

 Mr. N. Manders, Surgeon, Medical Staff. The latter paper contained a very 

 interesting description of the chief physical features of the Shan States and 

 neighbouring parts of Burmah. — H. Goss & W. W. Fowler, Hon. Sees. 





