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Mr. Stainton remarked that the female of Zelieria hepariella had until 

 lately been considered a distinct species, and was known as Zelieria insigni- 

 pennella, but directly Mr. Elisha began breeding the insect its identity with 

 Z. hepariella was established. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited specimens of Crambus alpinellus, C. contaminellus, Lita 

 semidecandriella, L. marmorea (dark forms), and L. blandulella (a new 

 species), Boryphora palustrella, and Bepressaria yeatiana, all collected at 

 Deal, during last July and August. 



Mr. Stainton observed that Crambus alpinellus was so named from the 

 earliest captures of the species having been made on the lower parts of the 

 Alps, but that it had since been found on the low sandy ground of North 

 Germany, and its capture at Deal quite agreed with what was now known of 

 the distribution of the species in Germany. It was first recorded as a British 

 species by Dr. Knaggs, in 1871. from two specimens taken at Southsea by 

 Mr. Moncreaff. Mr. Stainton further observed that he had named Mr. Tutt's 

 new species " blandulella " from its similarity to a small Maculea, of which 

 one of the best known synonyms was blandella. He also remarked that Deal 

 was a new locality for Boryphora palustrella, which had hitherto only been 

 recorded from Wicken Fen and the Norfolk Fens in England, and from the 

 neighbourhood of Stettin on the Continent. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited on behalf of Mr. Coote, a variety of C. 

 phlceas ; also a number of Stenobothrus rufipes, and three specimens of Cocci- 

 nella labilis, recently taken by himself at Heme Bay. 



Mr. Martin Jacoby exhibited several species of Galerucidce, belonging to a 

 genus which he proposed to call Neobrotica, closely resembling in shape and 

 coloration certain species of Biabrotica, but differing therefrom in structural 

 characters. He remarked that the late Baron Von Harold had described a 

 Galeruca from Africa, which, except in generic characters, exactly resembled 

 the South American genus Dircema. 



Dr. Sharp communicated a paper, by Mr. Thomas L. Casey, (f On a new 

 genus of African Pselaphidce" 



Mr. Bridgman communicated a paper entitled " Further Addition to the 

 Rev. T. A. Marshall's Catalogue of British Ichneumonidce!' 



Mr. Distant read a paper entitled " Contributions to a knowledge of 

 Oriental Rhynchota." 



Mr. Enock read notes " On the Parasites of the Hessian Fly," and exhibited 

 specimens of injured barley. A discussion ensued, in which Dr. Sharp, Mr. 

 Jacoby, Mr. Billups, Mr. Waterhouse, and others took part. — H. Goss, 

 ■Hon, Secretary, 



