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A communication was read from Mr. H. W. Bates, on some of the 

 Coleoptera collected by Mr. W. Bonny during the same expedition. 



Mr. Herbert Druce read the descriptions of ninety-five new species of 

 Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Central and South America. 



Mr. G-. A. Boulenger pointed out the secondary sexual characters in the 

 South African Tortoises of the genus Homopus. 



A communication was read from Mr. W. L. Sclater, containing a series 

 of critical notes on the Indian species of the family Muridce. 



A communication was read from Mr. J. T. Cunningham, containing 

 some notes on the secondary sexual characters of the genus Amoglossus. 

 The author showed that the so-called Amoglossus laterna is only the female 

 of A. lophotes. 



Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe read the sixth part of his series of notes on the 

 Hume Collection of Birds. The present communication treated of the 

 CoraciidcB of the Indian region, and contained descriptions of three new 

 species. 



A communication was read from Miss E. M. Sharpe, containing an 

 account of a collection of Lepidoptera made by Mr. Edmund Reynolds 

 on the rivers Tocantins and Araguaya, and in the province of Goyaz, 

 Brazil. 



Mr. Edmund S. Hall gave an account of the occurrence of a persistent 

 right posterior cardinal vein in a Rabbit. 



This meeting closed the Session 1889-90. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



July 2, 1890. — Prof. J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., Hon. Life- 

 President, in the chair. 



Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson (Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, Lancashire), and 

 Mrs. Basett (Springfield, Reading) were elected Fellows. 



Lord Walsingham exhibited some rare Micro-Lepidoptera collected by 

 himself at Cannes, including Eudemis helichrysana, Conchylis rubricana, 

 Milliere ; a new Depressaria from Opoponax cheironium, which is about to 

 be described by M, A. Constant, and Bucculatrix helichrysella ; and also a 

 volume of drawings of larvae of the genus Eupithecia, by Mr. Buckler, 

 which formerly belonged to the late Rev. H. Harpur Crewe. 



Mr.M'Lachlan exhibited larvae and cocoons of Mecyna deprivalis, Walk., 

 sent by Mr. W. W. Smith, of Ashburton, New Zealand ; the species feeds 

 commonly on Genista capensis, an introduced plant. Mr. M'Lachlan 

 remarked on the curious nature of the larva, and suggested that as the 

 species was so closely allied to M. polygonalis, so extremely rare in this 

 country, they might be interesting to British lepidopterists. 



