NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 3 



had been completely neglected, and not supplied witli food, but 

 managed to retain sufficient vitality to bore into the cork of the 

 bottle in which it was kept, and there passed into the perfect 

 state. Lophyrus 2}ini, a very distinct variety of the larva of this 

 species, was also taken at Bishopton, where it fed in company with 

 the typical form. It had the upper part of the body deep black, 

 and was considerably smaller than is usual with the larvae of this 

 species. It was not so active and lively as the normal type, so 

 that probably the difference in colour might be owing to 

 disease. Mr Cameron then made a few remarks on some of the 

 parasites of Humble Bees, and showed some living larvae of 

 Antherophagus glaher, feeding on the cells of a nest of Bombus 

 muscorum, discovered last week near Cambuslang. 



October 26th, 1875. 



Mr Thomas Chapman, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr James Marshall was elected a life member of the Society. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr James Lumsden, F.Z.S., exhibited a living specimen of 

 the Osprey (Pandion haliaehis), captured on the 16th of this 

 month on board the s.s. Ethiopia, about 200 miles from the coast 

 of Ireland. It had alighted on one of the yards of the ship 

 during a gale from the S.E., and was taken by one of the sailors 

 at night when it was asleep. Mr Lumsden also drew the atten- 

 tion of the meeting to a notice in the Field of the previous week, 

 which stated that a bird of this species had been shot near the 

 village of Drumore, County Waterford, in the end of September. 

 The specimen exhibited had since its capture been forcibly fed 

 upon fish, which it refused to take voluntarily. The Osprey at 

 one time bred on the islets of Lochlomond and the lake of Men- 

 teith, but it has long since deserted these localities, and, like most 

 of our large Raptores, is now rare, and seldom met with in this 

 country, except in instances like the present, when driven 

 by storms from its usual haunts. A conversation ensued, in 

 which Dr F. P. Flemyng, F.R.G.S., Mr John Young, F.G.S., and 

 others took part. 



Mr John Kirsop exhibited two cases of insects from Berbice, 



