196 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Entomological Society of London. 



April 13, 1893. — Frederic Merrifield, Esq., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



Sir John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn, Bart., exhibited a number of 

 specimens of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hymenoptera, all caught in 

 Glamorganshire. The Lepidoptera included two remarkable varieties of 

 Vanessa io, both obtained from the same brood of larvae, from which the 

 usual eye-like spots in the hind wings were absent ; varieties of Arctia 

 menthastri ; a long series of melanic and other forms of Boarmia 

 repandata and Tephrosia crepuscularia ; and bleached forms of Geometra 

 papilionaria. The Coleoptera included specimens of Prionus coriarius, 

 Pyrochroa coccinea, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, and Astynomus cedilis, which 

 latter Sir John Llewelyn stated had been handed to him by colliers, who 

 obtained them from the wooden props used in the coal mines, made out of 

 timber imported from the Baltic. Mr. Merrifield, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Bower, 

 and Mr. Stevens made some remarks on the specimens. 



Sir John T. D. Llewelyn enquired whether the name of the moth 

 which had a sufficiently long proboscis to fertilize the large Madagascan 

 species of Orchis, Angracum sesquipedale, was known. Mr. C. 0. Water- 

 house stated that the collections received at the British Museum from 

 Madagascar had been examined with the view to the discovery of the 

 species, but up to the present it had not been identified. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. Frank W. P. Dennis, of Bahia, Brazil, 

 several nests of Trap-door Spiders containing living specimens of the 

 spider, and read a communication from Mr. Dennis on the subject. 

 Several photographs of the nests and the spiders were also exhibited. It 

 was stated that Mr. Dennis had found these nests at Bahia in one spot 

 only in a cocoa-nut grove close by the sea. 



Mr. McLachlan read a paper entitled " On species of Chrysopa Observed 

 in the Eastern Pyrenees; together with descriptions of, and notes on, new 

 or little-known Palsearctic forms of the genus." The author stated that 

 the species referred to in this paper had been observed by him in the 

 Eastern Pyrenees, in July, 1886, when staying with M. Rene Oberthur. 

 After alluding to the nature of the district, and its capabilities from an 

 entomological point of view, the paper concluded with descriptions of 

 certain new palaearctic species of the genus. Dr. Sharp, who said that he 

 was acquainted with the district, and Mr. Merrifield made some remarks 

 on the paper. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



