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LONDON Entomological Society, August 4.—Prof. J. O. West-wood, M.A., F.L.S., in the chair.—The following gentlemen were elected Fellows:—Lord Dormer, Messrs. J. H. A. Jenner, James Edwards, Morris Young, F. V. Theobald, E. A. Atmore, and William Saunders, President of the Entomological Society of Ontario.—Mr. Theodore Wood exhibited and made remarks on the following Coleoptera: an abnormal specimen of Apion pallipes; a series of Langdandia anophthalmi, from St. Peter's, Kent, taken in decaying seed-potatoes; a series of Adelops wollastoni, and Anommatus 12-striatus, also from decaying seed potatoes; and a series of Barypeithes pellucidus, from the sea-shore near Margate. Mr. Wood also exhibited, on behalf of Dr. Ellis, of Liverpool, a specimen of Apion annulipes.—Prof. Westwood exhibited five specimens of a species of Culex, supposed to be either C. cantans or C. lateralis, sent to him by Mr. Douglas, who had received them from the Kent Water-Works. It was stated that they were very numerous in July last, and that persons bitten by them had suffered from “terrible swellings.” Prof. Westwood also exhibited some galls found inside an acorn at Cannes in January last.—Mr. Billups exhibited a male and female of Cleptes nitidula, taken in copulâ in July last, at Benfleet, Essex, on the flowers of Heracleitm sphondylium. He stated that it was probably the rarest of the twenty-two known species of British Chrysididiæ, though it had been recorded from the New Forest and from Suffolk.—The Rev. W. W. Fowler announced that a series of specimens of Homalium rugulipenne had been received from Dr. Ellis, of Liverpool, for distribution amongst Members of the Society.—Mr. White exhibited a group of three specimens of Lucanus cervus, consisting of a female and two males. The female was in copulâ with one of the males, which, while so engaged, was attacked by the second male.—Mr. E. A. Fitch read a paper, communicated by Mr. G. Bowdler Buckton, on the occurrence in Britain of some undescribed Aphides.—Prof. Westwood read a paper on a tube-making homopterous insect from Ceylon.—Mr. Theodore Wood read a paper on Bruckus-infested beans. A discussion ensued, in which Prof. West-wood, the Rev. W. W. Fowler, and Messrs. Weir, Fitch, and Trimen took part.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 34, 403–404 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034403a0
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