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Colonel Swinhoe stated that he possessed a similar variety of a species 

 of Syntomis. 



The Rev. Dr. Walker exhibited a number of Diptera, Hymenoptera, 

 and Coleoptera recently collected in Iceland, also some drawings illustrating 

 the various forms of Crymodes exulis occurring in Iceland which he had 

 shown at the October meeting of the Society ; he also exhibited seven 

 varieties of Melanippe thuleana, nine of Coremia munitata, and a few of 

 Noctua conflua, illustrating the varied forms of these species occurring in 

 Iceland. Dr. Mason said that the only British specimens of N. conflua 

 which he had seen resembling the Iceland form of the species were taken at 

 Wolsingham, Durham. 



Mons. A. Wailly exhibited and remarked on a number of Lepidoptera 

 from Japan. The collection comprised about thirty species, eleven of which, 

 it was stated, were not represented in the British Museum collections. 



Mr. A. C. Horner exhibited a number of rare species of Coleoptera, 

 including Homalota crassicornis, Gyll., H. Jlmorum, Bris., H. humeralis, 

 Kr., and Euryporus picipes, Pk., collected at Church Stretton, Shropshire; 

 and also Amara nitida, Sturm., Oxypoda amcena, Fair,, Homalota 

 testaceipes, Heer, Lithocharis apicalis, Kr., and Epurcea neglecta, Heer, 

 from the neighbourhood of Tonbridge. 



Mr. Meyer-Darcis exhibited a specimen of Termitobia pliysogastra, 

 Gangelb., a new genus and species of Brachelytra obtained in a White- 

 ants' nest from the Congo. Dr. Sharp commented on the interesting 

 nature of the exhibition. 



Colonel Swinhoe exhibited a collection of moths from Southern India, 

 which comprised about forty species, distributed amongst the following 

 families : — Syntomida, LithosiidcB, Arctiida, Lasiocampida, Zerenida, 

 FidonidcB, Leucanida, Heliothidce, Acontiida, Poaphilidce, &c. He also 

 read a paper describing these species, entitled " New Species of Moths 

 from Southern India." 



The Rev. T. A. Marshall communicated a paper entitled "A Monograph 

 of British Braconidse. Part IV." 



Lord Walsingham read a paper entitled "African Micro-Lepidoptera," 

 containing descriptions of seventy-one new species, and of the following 

 nine new genera, viz.: — Autochthonus (type A. chalybiellus, Wlsm.), 

 Scalidoma (type Tinea horridella, Wkr.), Barbaroscardia (type B.fasciata, 

 Wlsm.), Odites (type 0. natalensis, Wlsm.), Idiopteryx (type Cryptolechia 

 obliquella, Wlsm.), Microthauma (type M. metallifera, Wlsm.), Licmocera 

 (type L. lyonetlella, Wlsm.), Oxymacharis (type 0. niveocervina, Wlsm.), 

 and Micropoatega (type M. ceneofasciata, Wlsm.). Several European and 

 American genera were recorded as new to the African fauna, and the 

 occurrence of one Australian and two Indian genera was also noted. — 

 H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



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