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LONDON. Entomological Society, August I.—Dr. D. Sharp, President, in the chair.—Mr. F. D. Godman, F.R.S., exhibited a large number of species of Lepidoptera and Diptera recently collected for him in Mexico by Mr. Herbert Smith.—Mr. White exhibited parasites bred from Bombyx neustria, and a living example of Heterodes guyoni, found at Dartford, and believed to have been introduced with Esparto grass from Tunis.—Mr. Enock exhibited a stem of barley, showing the appearance of the plant under an attack of Hessian fly.—Mr. Stevens exhibited a number of galls collected at By fleet in July last; also a specimen of Coleophora solitariella, with ichneumons bred from it.—Mr. E. Saunders exhibited a specimen of Catephia alchymista, captured at St. Leonards, in June last. He also exhibited specimens of a rare ant (Anochetus ghiliani), taken at Tangier by Mr. G. Lewis. One of these he had submitted to Dr. Emery, of Bologna, who thought that, although ocelli were present, the specimen was probably inter mediate between a worker and a female, and that possibly the true female did not exist.—Mr. Pascoe exhibited a number of species of Coleoptera recently collected in Germany and the Jura Mountains, and read a note correcting the synonymy of certain species of Brachycerus recently described by him in the Transactions of the Society. He stated that the corrections had been suggested by MM. Peringuey and Aurivillius.—Prof. Westwood communicated a paper entitled “A List of the Diurnal Lepidoptera collected in Northern Celebes by Dr. Sydney Hickson, with descriptions of new species.”
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Societies and Academies. Nature 38, 383–384 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038383a0
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