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most lovely " Forester," with a sort of Cory don-shine about it, though 

 much deeper and purer. In the sunshine they looked beautiful, flying 

 in a straight line over the top of the long grass ; in fact, the collecting 

 here is grand, but I miss the old companionship of home. There is 

 no one here to appreciate a good take ; for Geology and Botany rule 

 the roost ; a few Coleopterists form a little clique, and Lepidopterists 

 are "non est." 



I have not been bothered much by snakes as yet, but some of the 

 Tarantulas and Ants are brutes, they seem almost entirely composed 

 of jaws and virus. Mosquitos, too, can do a bite if you let them ; but, 

 fortunately, complete security may be obtained by rubbing in a little 

 oil of lavender. They don't mind tobacco smoke, but cannot stand 

 the lavender. 

 Melbourne, Nov., 1889. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



April 2nd, 1890. — Mr. Frederick DuCane Godman, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



Mr. G. Bryant, of 6, Oakley Crescent, Chelsea, S.W.; Mr. A. E. Hall, of Norbury, 

 Pitts Moor, Sheffield; Mr. J. J. F. X. King, of 207, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow; 

 Mr. H. C. Oakshott, of De Beauvoir House, Falmouth ; Mr. A. E. Stearns, of the 

 Lodge, Upper Halliford, Walton-on-Thames ; and Mr. G. Vigers, of Hersham, Sur- 

 rey, were elected Fellows : and Mr. A. B. Farn was admitted into the Society. 



Mr. Godman announced the death of Mr. Joseph S. Baly, of Warwick, the well 

 known Coleopterist, who has been a member of the Society for the last forty years. 



Dr. Sharp exhibited and made remarks on a female specimen of a coleopterous 

 insect — Ternnochila quadricollis, Reitt. — which was the subject of a very unusual mal- 

 formation of the nature termed "ectromelie" by Lacordaire. 



Mr. R. W. Lloyd exhibited three specimens of Elater pomona, taken at Brocken- 

 hurst, in the New Forest, about the middle of March last. 



Colonel Swinhoe exhibited, and read notes on, a number of Butterflies of the 

 genus Euthalia. He pointed out that the specimens described as species by the name 

 of. Euthalia sedeva were only the females of E. balarama, 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited male and female specimens of Cccidomyix salicis-siliqua, 

 Walsh, which had just emerged from galls received from Mr. Cockerell, who had col- 

 lected them on a species of sallow in Colorado. He also exhibited three species of 

 Ichneumonidse new to Britain, viz., Ichneumon haglundi, Holmgr., bred by Messrs. 

 Adkin and Barker from Arctia fuliginosa; Phygadeuon rtcfo-niger, Bridg., taken in Ash- 



