REPORTS OF MEETINGS. 
Dec. 21st, 1897. — Var.of Aplecta pkasina. — ]\Ii’. II. I\Iay exhibited 
a d' specimen of A. prasina, with fore-wings having dark centres and 
white spot conspicuous, from Lyndhurst. 
A (tall-p'uy with alternate generations. — Mr. II. Hcasler, a 
specimen of lliorhiza cijitn'ci, a very interesting Hymenopteron, because 
this generation (of which the females only are known and they apterous) 
differs so completely from the alternate generation, which has received 
a distinct name, VVru.s which attacks the oak. Emerging 
in the latter form from oak-apples, these gall-flies descend to the roots 
and lay their eggs on the roots ; the larva' cause galls there, and 
females emerging in December and January or earlier, in the form 
Jiiinhiza, climb to the buds of the trees and lay their eggs there, 
ultimately appearing as Trraa trniiiiialis, which completes the circle. 
Coi.EOPTERA FROM DoXHlI.L. - Ml'. II. Heaslei', ( 
cchii from J'^vhiinii nihiare at Doxhill in August. 
CoLEOPTERA FROM Snowdon. — iMi'. Newboi'y, Coleoptera received from 
Mr. W. E. Sharp, of Ledsham, taken by him in August on Snowdon ; 
Udiiialdta rrassiniruis, (iylh, large . Dr. Sharp describes this insect 
from specimens taken in Inverness, which Avere decidedly smaller than 
/>a;ia>ia, I'lr. Continental authors make the two species the same 
size. This specimen, in Avhich the double furrow on thorax and 
angularly produced apex of last abdominal segments are very well 
marked, is the size of average paipDta. ( 'alddcra riparia, Gr., a small 
form, about the size of ( '. actliiojis, Gr., hut with third joint of antenme 
too long for that species. Lesteva Aiaipi, Rye. In the specimen sent 
the punctuation differed hut little from that of the common hiniiclijtra, 
Goeze. Antlmpliapn^i alpiniix, Pk., A • Remarkable in having, besides 
the usual horns on head and tAvo-toothed mandibles, a second pair, 
Avithout teeth, above the others. Mr. NeAvhery thought that this must 
he abnormal. Xchria piillnihali , Sch., var. Avith entirely testaceous 
legs. It Avould lie Avell if our hand-books used some other character 
than that of the colour of the legs and antenme to separate this species 
from birriniUin, F. 11 i/ilrojionis sp ? This insect, Avhich varied some- 
Avhat in colour, is about the size of //. olisninis, hut has entirely 
testaceous antenme, the penultimate joints of Avhich are almost 
globular, and not ohconic as in n-latKs, ('lark. It has, hoAvever, the 
dilated tibia! of the latter species, of Avhich it has been pronounced a 
variety by IMr. Champion. 
Paper. — ]\Ir. Racot, on behalf of IMr. A. (i)uail, read a paper entitled 
“ Some Ciradidi'x,” in Avhich the latter gentleman narrated his experi¬ 
ences of these insects at Sydney. 
Jan. Ith, 1898. — IIyrrids. — Mr. A. Racot exhibited hybrid 
Ti'pliivttia biKtoi tata-crcpiiticiilaria. 
Insects from Sandoavn, I.W. — iMr. II. May, a scries of Aijrutis 
