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" The Lepidoptera of the Khasia Hills. Part I." A long and interesting discussion 

 ensued, in which Mr. Elwes, Mr. Hampson, Colonel Swinhoe, and others took part. 

 Mr. W. Bartlett Calvert communicated a paper entitled " New Chilian Lepidoptera." 

 Mr. J. W. Shipp communicated a paper entitled " On a New Species of the Genus 

 Phalacrognathus ." 



April 12th, 1893. — Frederick Merrifield, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 

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

 Lepidoptera, Coleopteia, 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 A rctia menthastri ; a long series of melanic and other forms of 

 Boarmia repandatia 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, 

 Angrcecum sesquipedale, was known. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse 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 communi- 

 cation from Mr. Dennis on the subjedt. 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 Palaeartic forms of the genus." 

 The author stated that the species referred to in his paper had been observed by him 

 in the Eastern Pyrenees, in July, 1886, when staying with I\lons. 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 palaeartic 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. 



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Tuesday, April 4, 1893. — Exhibits. Mr. Clark, a male Argynnis paphia with extra 

 black marking ; a Xanthic specimen of A. euphrosyne and a gynandrous specimen of 

 Lyccena agon. Mr. Battley, living larvae of Thera variata and Ellopia fasciaria. Mr. 

 Simes, eggs of Gonepteryx rhamni, deposited on the terminal shoots of the buckthorn. 

 Mr. Riches, cocoons of Galleria cerella and larvae of Tabanus bovinus. Mr. Heasler, 

 Baptolinus alternans. Mr. Lewcock, Niptus hololeucus, Gibbium scotias, Xestobium tessel- 

 latum, Ptinus fur, Dermestes lardarius, Mezium affine (bred) and larvae of the same to 

 illustrate his paper ; also specimens of Rkipiphorus paradoxus, with larvae imbeded in 

 larva of Vespa vulgaris on which it is parasitic, and a long series of Playtus cylindricus, 

 the last two species having been received from Dr. Chapman of Hereford. Mr. 

 Lewcock then read a paper " On Certain Coleopterous Insects occurring in City 

 Warehouses."* Messrs. Newbery, Heasler and others enquired the best way to 

 breed Dermestes lardarius. Mr. Lewcock replied that the larvae of this species fed 



% This Paper is given in full in another portion of the Magazine. 



