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that it was not possible to enforce a rule ignoring such descriptions. A discussion 
also ensued as to whether or not the cover of a periodical or work was part of the 
publication. On this point difference of opinion was manifested, but the general 
idea was in the affirmative. 
November 3rd, 1880. Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., &c., President, in 
the Chair. 
Mr. E. Meyrick, of Ramsbury, Wilts, and Capt. Thos. Broun, of Auckland, 
IsTew Zealand, were elected Ordinary Members, and Dr. E. Brandt, of St. Petersburg, 
was elected a Foreign Member. 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Olliffe, a pair of dwai'fed 
examples of Epione vespertaria taken at Arundel. 
Mr. McLachlan exhibited the singular Eucalyptus galls described aud figured 
in the present number of this Magazine. He stated, also, that in a letter received 
from Mr. D. G-. Rutherford, from Camaroons, W. Africa, the writer mentioned that 
he had taken Papilio Merope and P. Cenea in copuld, and had obtained eggs from 
which larvse were hatched. Mr. Roland Trimen thought an error had occurred as to 
the name Cenea, and that the ^ was more probably Ilippocoon or one of the other 
W. African polymorphic forms of the of Merope. The statement was interesting 
as confirming the relationship of one of the forms. 
Prof. Westwood exhibited saw-fly galls on a sallow, apparently not of the 
usual form ; and a drawing of a very singular dipterous larva found on a stem of 
Pelargonium, and no doubt pertaining to the Syrphidce. 
Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited, on behalf of the Rev. J. K. Brown, of Maidstone, 
a remarkable variety of Epunda lutulenta\ and on behalf of Mr. Rolfe a specimen 
of Apatura Ilia which the latter affirmed he had caught in Pinner Woods last July. 
It was remarked that this example of A. Ilia was apparently old and had evidently 
been twice pinned. 
Sir John Lubbock exhibited larva) from the Troad, which Mr. Calvert had 
forwarded through Sir J. D. Hooker ; they had lately been found in considerable 
numbers feeding on the eggs of Locusts, and were probably those of some species of 
Cantharidce ; very many locust eggs had been destroyed by them, and it was 
suggested they might perhaps be imported into Cyprus. 
Mr. Roland Trimen exhibited the singular apterous Ilymenopterous insect 
(already noticed at the Meeting of the 7th July) from near Cape Town, which he 
strongly believed was the $ of Dorylus helvolus ; it had been found in a nest of a 
small red ant apparently of the genus Anomma, and the workers of this were 
attached to a winged female referable to G-erstacker’s genus Dichthodia, which that 
author regarded as probably the ? of Dorylus. He also exhibited cases formed by a 
South African Lcpidopterous larva; they were formed of sand, somewhat flattened, 
and along each side were attached larger rough fragments of stone in a single row, 
thus giving the caso much the aspect of a Myriopod ; the larva was regarded as 
venomous by the Boers. 
Sir S. S. Saunders read a paper on the habits and affinities of the Hymenopterous 
genus Scleroderma. 
Mr. E. Saunders read a Synopsis of British Heterogyna and Fossorial 
Hymenoptera. 
Professor Westwood read descriptions of new species of exotic Diptera. 
