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and Roux had previously (Ann. Sci. Nat. t. xxviii) described and figured it 

 as an abnormal apterous hexapod under the name of Necroplvilus arenarius. 

 Mr. Nevinson supplemented these remarks with an account of his capture 

 of the specimens in the Egyptian tombs. 



Mr. G. T. Baker exhibited a series of forms of species of the genus 

 Boarmia from Madeira ; and also a series of melanic varieties of Qracilaria 

 syrlngella from the neighbourhood of Birmingham. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited and remarked on a series of specimens 

 of Dermestes vulpinus, which had been doing much damage to the roofs of 

 certain soap-works in the neighbourhood of Loudon, where it had no doubt 

 been introduced with bones and fat. 



Mr. R. W. Lloyd exhibited a specimen of Carabus catenulatus, in which 

 the femur of the right foreleg was curiously dilated and toothed. He stated 

 that he took the specimen at Oxshott, Surrey, on the 27th September last. 



The Rev. C. F. Thornewill exhibited a black variety of the male of 

 Argynnis aglaia, taken by himself in July last on Cannock Chase; also a 

 number of living larvae of a species of Eupithecia feeding on the flower-heads 

 of Tanacetum vulgare collected in a limestone quarry in Leicestershire. 

 He expressed some doubt as to the identity of the species, but the general 

 opinion was that the larvae were only those of Eupithecia absynthiata. 



Mr. G. Bryant sent for exhibition a variety of the larva of Trichiura 

 cratagi. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a specimen of Plusia moneta, Fabr., a 

 species new to Britain, taken at Reading by Mr. W. Holland in July last. 

 It was stated that the first specimen of this species captured in England 

 had been taken at Dover last June, and is now in the collection of 

 Mr. Sydney Webb, of that town. Mr. Kirby said that Mynheer Snellen 

 had reported this species as being unusually common in Holland a few 

 years ago. 



Mr. W. Dannatt exhibited a variety of Papilio hectorides, female, from 

 Paraguay. Mr. Osbert Salvin said he believed he had seen this form before. 



Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited a curious little larva-like creature, found by 

 Mr. Green in a rapid mountain stream in Ceylon, and observed that 

 there was some doubt as to its true position in the animal kingdom. It 

 was made up of six distinct segments, each of which bore a single pair 

 of laterally directed processes or urijointed appendages. Mr. Hampson 

 remarked that the appendages were very suggestive of the parapodia of 

 certain chaetopod worms, but that all the known polychaetous worms were 

 marine. Lord Walsingham and Mr. M'Lachlan expressed an opinion that 

 the animal was of myriopodous affinities, and was not the larva of an insect. 



Mr. Baker read a paper entitled " Notes on the genitalia of a gynandro- 

 moiphous Eronia hippia." — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



