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mandra maculosa, in which the reduction and fusion of the parts remaining 

 realized the condition normal for the Urodele limb with numerically reduced 

 digits. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



March 8, 1893.— Henry John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



Mr. Frank E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S., of the Zoological Gardens, 

 Regent's Park, N.W. ; Monsieur Edouard Brabant, of Chateau de Moren- 

 chies, Cambrai, France ; Mr. Frank Bromilow, of Avalon, St. Maurice, 

 Nice, France ; Mr. Henry Powys Greenwood, F.L.S., of Harnham Cliff, 

 near Salisbury ; Mr. Frederick Michael Halford, of 6, Pembridge Place, 

 W. ; Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Howard L. Irby, F.L.S., of 41, Cornwall 

 Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. ; Mr. Bertram S. Ogle, of Steeple Acton, 

 Oxfordshire ; Herr Wilhelm Paulcke, of 33, Langstrasse, Baden-Baden, 

 Germany; Mr. Louis B. Prout, of 12, Greenwood Road, Dalston, N.E. ; 

 and Captain Savile G. Reid, late R.E , of Foyle House, Alton, Hants, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society ; and Herr Pastor Wallengren, of Farhult, 

 bei Hoganas, Sweden, and Herr Hofrath Dr. Carl Brunner von-Wattenwyl, 

 of Vienna, were elected Honorary Fellows of the Society to fill the vacancies 

 in the list of Honorary Fellows caused by the deaths of Professor Hermann 

 Carl Conrad Burmeister and Dr. Carl August Dohrn. 



Dr. D. Sharp exhibited a species of Enoplotrupes from Siam, which was 

 believed to be new, and which he thought Mr. Lewis intended to describe 

 under the name of E. principalis. This insect had great power of making 

 a noise, and the female seemed in this respect to surpass the male. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford said he wished to supplement the remarks 

 which he made at the meeting of the Society on the 8th of February last 

 on the larva of Rhynchophorus. He stated that he had since found that 

 only the first seven pairs of abdominal stigmata were rudimentary. The 

 posterior pair were well developed and displaced on to the dorsum of their 

 segment, which was thickly chitinised, and bore a deep depression, on the 

 margins of which the spiracles were situated. He suggested that the 

 absence of lateral spiracles was perhaps correlated with the wetness of the 

 larval burrows, and that it was a displacement of the posterior stigmata, 

 usually supposed to be restricted to aquatic coleopterous larvae. He added 

 that dissection showed that the posterior pair were the principal agents of 

 respiration. Dr. Sharp and Mr. Champion made some remarks on the 

 subject. 



Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher exhibited a long series of bred Zygana loniceras 

 and Z. trifolii, hybrids of the first generation with the following parentage: 

 — Z. lonicerce, male — Z. trifolii, female; Z. trifolii, male — Z. lonicera, 



