MICEOSCOPICAL AND NATUEAL HISTOEY SECTION. 
Ordinary Meeting, November 8th, 1886. 
Professor W. G. Wil'liamson, F.R.S., President of the Section, 
in the Chair. 
Mr. W. Moss, F.C.A., Ashton-imder-Lyne ; Mr. J. B. 
Robinson, F.R.M.S., Mossley ; Mr. James Fleming, F.R.M.S., 
Lower Broughton, were elected Associates of the Section. 
Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., shewed specimens of Ranun- 
culus Flammula, L. vax pseudo-reptans from Windermere, 
and Ranunculus replans from Ulls water. 
Mr. Bailey also exhibited some lithographic stones, shew- 
ing very beautiful dendritic markings. 
Mr. Cameron exhibited (1) Nematus fagi, Zaddach, a saw- 
fly unrecorded as British, from Sale, where the larvse were 
found feeding on a beech hedge ; 
(2) A number of thorns of Mimosa dnid Acacia from Gua- 
temala, which had been used by Ants as nests ; 
(3) An Ant’s nest, apparently formed of masticated wood, 
from Panama; 
(4) A series of forms (male and female, and three forms 
of neuters) of a species of Alta from the same nest, and 
(5) A similar series of a species of Eciton, all from 
Panama. 
Mr. Cameron also stated that he had been experimenting 
with Eriocampa annulipes (whose larvse were very des- 
tructive to the beech and hawthorn hedges at Sale during 
the last summer) and had succeeded in getting virgin females 
to lay eggs from which he had reared some males. 
