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feet, but the majority were stated to have been collected in the Krishnye 

 Valley, which drains the glaciers on the western slopes of the Nun Kun 

 range. Mr. Elwes remarked that some of the butterflies were of great 

 interest. 



Mr. G. F. Hampson exhibited a curious form of Parnassius, taken by 

 Sir Henry Jenkyns, K.C.B., on the 29th of June last, in the Gasternthal, 

 Kandersteg. 



Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited a long series of remarkable varieties of 

 Boarmia repandata, taken last July in the New Forest. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited a photograph of the middle of the eye 

 of a male Tabanus, showing square and other forms of facets, multiplied 

 25 times. 



Mr. Roland Trimen communicated a paper entitled " On some new, or 

 imperfectly known, species of South African Butterflies," and the species 

 described in this paper were exhibited. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell communicated a paper entitled " Two new 

 species of Pulvinaria from Jamaica." 



Mr. Martin Jacoby communicated a paper entitled " Descriptions of 

 some new genera and new species of Halticidae." 



February 22.— Henry John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



Mr. Kenneth J. Morton, of Glenview Cottage, Carluke, N.B. ; Herr 

 A. F. Nonfried, of Rakonitz, Bohemia ; and Mr. Charles B. Taylor, of 

 Rae Town, Kingston, Jamaica, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. F. J. Hanbury exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Percy H. Russ, of 

 Sligo, several long and very variable series of Agrotis tritici, A. valligera, 

 and A. cursoria, together with Irish forms of many other species, some of 

 which were believed to be new to Ireland. Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher and 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt made some remarks on the species. 



Mr. R. W. Lloyd exhibited specimens of a species of Acarus found in 

 New Zealand wheat. He stated that Mr. A. D. Michael had examined the 

 specimens, and pronounced them to belong to Tyroglyphus farina, a species 

 which had been known for over a hundred years as a destroyer of corn, and 

 was only too abundant all over Europe, and probably over the temperate 

 regions of the world. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited, by means of the oxy-hydrogen lantern, 

 photographs of the larva of Nemeobius lucina in its first stage, showing the 

 conjoined dorsal tubercles, each carrying two hairs, which are remarkable in 

 being divided into two branches. For comparison he also showed, by 

 means of the lantern, drawings of the young larva of Papilio ajax, after 

 Scudder, and of a portion of a segment of Smerinthus populi, as the only 

 instances known to him of similar dichotomous hairs in lepidopterous larvae. 



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