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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. 



October 1, 1890.— The Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., 

 President, in the chair. 



The Rev. Dr. Walker exhibited, and read notes on, a long and varied 

 series of forms of Crymodes exults, collected in June and July last in Iceland. 

 In reply to a question by Lord Walsingham as to whether all the forms 

 referred by Dr. Walker to Crymodes exulis had been identified as belonging 

 to that species, Mr. Kirby said the species was a very variable one, and 

 that several forms had been described from Labrador and Greenland. 

 Mr. South stated that he had examined Dr. Walker's specimens, and he 

 believed that most of the forms exhibited had been described by Dr. 

 Staudinger in his papers on the Entomology of Iceland. 



Dr. Sharp exhibited a specimen of Ornithomyia avicularia, L., taken 

 near Dartford, to which there were firmly adhering — apparently by their 

 mandibles — several specimens of a mallophagous insect. He also exhibited 

 some specimens of fragile Diptera, Neuroptera, and Lepidoptera, to show 

 that the terminal segments in both sexes might be dissected off and mounted 

 separately without the structures suffering from shrivelling or distortion. 

 Dr. Sharp also said, in reference to the statement made by him, on 

 p. 421 of his paper recently published in the ' Transactions' of the Society, 

 as to the number of the segments of the abdomen, and the position of the 

 genital orifice in the female of Hemiptera-Heteroptera, that he had recentJy 

 been making some dissections, and found that the structures externally 

 were difficult of comprehension, and he now thought that the statement he 

 had made from observation, without dissection, might prove to be erroneous. 



Mr. G. F. Hampson exhibited and remarked on a series of Erebiamelas, 

 taken in July last, in the Austrian Alps (Dolomites), by Mrs. Nicholls. 

 Captain Elwes observed that this species was abundant in the Pyrenees ; 

 but although he had frequently suggested to Dr. Staudinger and other 

 European lepidopterists that it probably occurred in the Swiss or Austrian 

 Alps, he had never been able to obtain specimens from any part of Europe 

 except the Pyrenees ; and that it had been left to an English lady to be 

 the first to take a species of Eyebia new to these Alps. He added that 

 the species only frequented very steep and stony slopes on the mountains, 

 so that its capture was attended with difficulty. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited specimens of an extraordinary Neuropterous 

 larva found by Mr. 13. G. Nevinson in tombs at Cairo. He said that this larva 

 had been assigned to the genus Nemoptera by Schaum, who described 

 it as having been found in tombs in Egypt (Berl. Ent. Zeitschrift, vol. i.); 



