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deformed, sometimes both. The above case is the only one I have come 

 across, like those I have mentioned with the wing entirely absent, by which 

 I mean quite invisible to the naked eye. 



I should think much more information might be obtained from the 

 coleopterists, who have so many semi- wingless females, but, I am not sufficient- 

 ly aquainted with them to know, if the wingless ones occur about winter 

 the same as the moths, or if there are other conditions which would tend to 

 make their wings of no use to them. It is also curious to note that five 

 out of the six cases it is left wing that is wanting. 

 Liverpool, 12th August, 1886. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



August 4. 1886.— Prof. J. O. Westwood, M.A., E.L.S., Hon. Life 

 President, in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Eellows, viz, : Lord Dormer, Mr. 

 J. H. A. Jenner, Mr. James Edwards, Mr. Morris Young, Mr. F. Y. Theo- 

 bald, Mr. E. A. Atmore, and Mr. William Saunders, President of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Ontario. 



Mr. Theodore Wood exhibited and made remarks on the following Cole- 

 optera, viz. : — An abnormal specimen of Apion pallipes (Kirby), with a tooth 

 upon the right posterior femur : a series of Langelangia anoplithalmi from 

 St. Peter's, Kent, taken in decaying seed potatoes ; a series of Adelops 

 Wollastoni (Janson), and Anommatus 12-striatus, also from decaying seed 

 potatoes ; and a series of Barypeithes pellucidus (Boh.), from the sea- shore 

 near Margate. Mr. Wood also exhibited, on behalf of Dr. Ellis, of Liverpool, 

 a specimen of Apion annulipes (Wenck). 



Prof. Westwood exhibited five specimens of a species of Culex, supposed to 

 be either C. cantans or C. lateralis, sent to him by Mr. Douglas, who had 

 received them from the Kent Water Works. It was stated that they had 

 been very numerous in July last, and that persons bitten by them had suffered 

 from " terrible swellings.'" Prof. Westwood also exhibited some galls found 

 inside an acorn at Cannes in January last. 



Mr. Billups exhibited a male and female of Cleptes nitidula (Latr.), taken 

 in copula in July last, at Benfleet, Essex, on the flowers of Heracleum sp7ion~ 

 dylium. He stated that it was probably the rarest of the twenty-two known 

 species of British Chrysididce, though it had been recorded from the New 



