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remarks on the collection, and pointed out certain marks which 

 distinguished some of the more remarkable specimens. 



Mr Peter Cameron, jun., exhibited specimens of the social 

 wasps found in the vicinity of Glasgow, viz.: Vespa norvegica, 

 V. sylvestris, V. rufa, V. germcmica, V. vulgaris, and V. arborea, 

 Smith. With the exception of the latter these are all commonly 

 distributed in Britain ; but V. arborea is an insect of great rarity, 

 and is an interesting addition to the Clydesdale hymenoptera. 

 He also showed the following saw-flies : — Strongylogaster femoralis, 

 Cameron, Ent. Mo. Mag., xi. 250, a species nearly related to *S'. 

 mixtiis, Kl., but difl'ering in having the femora and mouth black, 

 and the abdomen more broadly red in the middle. There is also 

 a difference in the neuration of the wings, but this is an unstable 

 character. It was taken on the deniffer Braes, and in Cadder 

 Wilderness. Nematus pallidiventris, Fallen, Acta Holm (1808), 

 120, 63; Thomson, Hymen. Scand., i., 110, 35. Specimens 

 probably of this species have been taken in Cadder, but they 

 differ from the description in having the antennae brown under- 

 neath, and one example wants the black colour on the abdomen. 

 There was also shown a variety or race of the common species, 

 Nematus hdeus, which varied from the normal form in being 

 marked with three broad black lines on the mesonotum. It has 

 been bred from the ordinary larvae on alder, and has been found 

 in various parts of Scotland. As it seems to be a tolerably con- 

 stant variety, it might with advantage be called var. trimaculatus. 



Mr John Kirsop exhibited stuffed specimens of a sword-fish, 

 Histioj^horus indiciis, from the Bay of Bengal, measuring seven feet 

 two inches in length, and a fine example of a N'aia, one of the 

 \dpers of India, which has a beautiful spectacle-like mark on its 

 broadly extended disc. Mr Kirsop also exhibited a number of 

 shells and corals from the Indian Ocean. Among the shells there 

 were examples of the genus Conns, Strorabus, Mitra, Turbo, Chama, 

 etc., and among the corals some fine specimens of Meandrina, 

 Astrea, JEiiphyllia, and Herjjetolithus, Mr Kirsop presented the 

 sword-fish and spectacled viper to the Hunterian Museum, 

 along with two of the species of corals. Mr John Young, F.G.S., 

 made some remarks on the interesting specimens exhibited by 

 Mr Kirsop, and in the absence of the President, Dr Young, 

 returned thanks in his name to Mr Kirsop for this additional 

 donation he had made to the museum. 



