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I do not know anything definite about the early life history of 

 B. hipundata. It is clear that the larva described by Giraud 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) viii., p. 55), refers to B. lineolata, while 

 according to Dours (Cat. Syn. des Hymen, de France, p. 18) "la 

 larve vit sur les rosiers a basse tige," but this requires confirma- 

 tion. I have taken it on the alder several times. 



Mr D. C. Glen, F.G.S., in name of the Local Executive Com- 

 mittee of the British Association, presented to the Library copies 

 of the several guide-books issued during the recent meeting in 

 Glasgow. Mr Glen w^as requested to convey to the Committee 

 the best thanks of the Society for this donation. It was also 

 resolved to render the thanks of the Society to those of its 

 members who had provided the collections of birds, insects, and 

 sea-weeds, for the exhibition in the Queen's Eooms, which had 

 been organised by the Zoological and Botanical sub-section of the 

 Museum Committee of the British Association. 



28th November, 1876. 



Mr James Barclay Murdoch, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr William Hamilton, Yokohama, Japan, was elected a 

 corresponding member, and Messrs Eowley Jex Long, John F. 

 Millar, and David Robertson, jun., ordinary members of the 

 Society. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr Peter Cameron exhibited specimens (1) of Ceroptres cerri, 

 Mayr, an inquiline gall insect, new to the British fauna, from 

 the banks of the Clyde, near Newton. The occurrence of this 

 species in this country is of interest, as on the Continent it 

 frequents galls which have not been found here, these galls being 

 attached to Qnercus cerrus, which is not a British plant. (2) 

 Mesoleius marginahis, Brischke, an ichneumon hitherto unrecorded 

 as British. It was bred from larvae of Lophjrus pini, got in a 

 wood at Lambhill. The ichneumon was first described from the 

 neighbourhood of Konigsberg. (3) There was also shown a 

 specimen of the American gall-fly, Cynips spongifica, a species 

 remarkable (as has been stated by Walsh), from its possessing 



