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LONDON.Entomological Society. June 3.-Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, vice-president, in the chair.-Exhibits.-H. St. J. Donis-thorpe: Pseudogynes of Formica sanguined, caused by fhe presence of the beetle Lomechusa strumosa in the nest, from the New Forest.-H. J. Turner: Living larvae of Coleophora maritimella on artemisia, and also a species of Asilidas and its prey.-C. J. Gahan: (i) Living specimens of a "leaf-insect "from the Seychelles, bred in England by Mr. St. Quentin, probably Pulchriphyllium crurifolium, S.; (2) some Lampyridse of considerable interest collected by Mr. E. E. Green in Ceylon, and including both sexes of the genera Lamprigera and Dioptoma, the females of which had hitherto been unknown, those of both genera being larviform. Attention was directed also to the existence in China, Ceylon, and the Malay Peninsula of remarkable larviform females greatly resembling in form the females of the American group Phengodini, and being somewhat similarly provided with rows of luminous points.-G. C. Champion: Specimens of Dromius angustus, Brull£, and Cryptophagus loyendali, Ganglb., recently recorded by him from Woking and the New Forest respectively; also two species of the Staphylinid genus Leptotyphlus and one of the Curculionid genus Alaocyba, the exhibitor mentioning that these extremely minute blind insects were much smaller than any known British representatives of the S. European groups in question.-Colonel C. S win hoe: Several boxes of butterflies taken during the present year (1908) in the Canary Islands, chiefly from Grand Canary and Teneriffe. Colonel Swinhoe observed that, with the exception of Lycaena wcbbianus, all the species met with suggest a foreign origin.-Papers.-Notes on the value of the genitalia of insects as guides in phylogeny: W. Wesche.-Certain Nycteribiidas, with descriptions of two new species from Formosa: Hugh Scott.-Further studies of the Tetriginae (Orthoptera) in the Oxford University Museum: Dr. J. L. Hancock.-Mimicry in tropical American butterflies: J. C. Moulton.-Heredity in Papilio dardanus from Natal, bred by Mr. G. F. Leigh, of Durban: Prof. E. B. Poulton.-New species of Hesperiidas from Central and South America: H.' H. Druce.