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REPORTS OF MEETINGS. 
exhibited a specimen of Sirex juvencus taken in Gotham Grove, 
in 1899, also a Sirex gigas with its hymenopterous parasite 
Rhyssa persuasoria, both being taken at Lynton. 
April 10. Dr. G. King Rudge was elected a member of the 
section. Mr. Watkins, of Painswick, sent specimens of the 
case larvas of Goleophora laricella, with notes thereon, also 
specimens of the larvae of G. discordella. Mr. Griffiths ex- 
hibited a large nmnber of moths, principally of the genera 
Syntomis, Zygwna, Arctia, and Ithomia. 
October 16. Mr. Hudd reported that he had been asked 
and had midertaken to compile a list of Lepidoptera for the 
Victoria History of Somerset. A draft list of the butterflies 
was read and discussion followed. 
November 14. Mr. Watkins, of Painswick, communicated 
a paper on " The Insect Tenants of a Straw." Dr. Rudge 
exhibited a bottle of cayenne pepper in which were feeding the 
larvae of a coleopterous insect. The pepper had remained so 
infested in the bottle for two years. Mr, Griffiths exhibited 
specimens of a Trombidium of a brilhant scarlet colour, and 
about a quarter of an inch across, they were taken from dead 
wood in West Africa. He also exhibited specimens of Papilio 
Mgeus, with its form P. Erechthus bred by him in England 
from Queensland pupae, P. anactus, P. Memnon with its 
various forms of $ , P. Ajax with its three seasonal forms, 
P. glaucus with its dark and light forms of ^ , and also 
many Ornithoptera and Syntomidce. 
December 13. Mr, Griffiths read some notes on, and ex- 
hibited specimens of the Xyloryctince, a sub-family of the 
Gelechiadce, from Queensland. Mr. Charbonnier made some 
observations on the Sarcophagi, or flesh flies, and produced 
numerous specimens. Dr. Rudge exhibited living larvae of 
Aeschna cyanea and specimens of the Hessian fly, Gecidomyia 
destructor, in its diflerent stages ; also of its parasite, Semi- 
otellus nigripes o which he described. 
CHARLES BARTLETT, Hon. Sec. 
