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upon the body of Volucella bombylans. Mr. Newport stated, that 

 notwithstanding this fact he was convinced, by a series of observa- 

 tions, that these supposed Pediculi were in reality the young larva? 

 of Meloe. 



Mr. Hope communicated a letter and drawing received by Prof. 

 Royle from Dr. Malcolmson in India, illustrating the habits of a 

 large species of Lamia which had destroyed some large trees, and 

 the reply he had written to the queries of the latter gentleman as to 

 the name, habits, and means of destruction of the insect in question. 

 Mr. Ingpen exhibited a species of Clytus which had been reared 

 from the sugar-cane, having remained at least three years in the 

 larva state. 



Mr. G. R. Waterhouse exhibited a specimen of a Coleopterous 

 larva, which he had found on the stems of water plants, which he 

 regarded as the larva of Donacia micans, and of which he read a de- 

 tailed account. 



Mr. Hope communicated a letter he had received from Dr. Cantor, 

 stating that he had kept Fulgora candelaria alive for a length of time, 

 and had never observed the slightest luminosity, the existence of 

 which was also denied by several intelligent Chinese with whom he 

 had spoken. If at all luminous, he considered that the luminous 

 property might only be developed at particular seasons. 



Mr. Yarrell exhibited a large globular nest, of beautiful white 

 silk, formed by an English spider, and which was half filled with 

 minute spiders just hatched. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited an extensive series of rare Curculionida 

 captured by himself near Arundel, of which he has since published 

 a list in the " Entomologist," including Apion dissimile, Germar, a 

 species new to Britain. 



Mr. Walton mentioned that he had recently captured both sexes 

 of the rare Apion Icevigatum at Birch Wood, the species having been 

 previously only found in Suffolk, and females alone known, these 

 were of a blue colour, but the male is black, as in A. Sorbi. He 

 likewise brought for distribution amongst the members a number of 

 specimens of Apion Limonii, which he had recently captured in great 

 numbers upon the Statice Limonium at Holme-juxta-mare, on the 

 coast of Norfolk, where this beautiful plant covers hundreds of acres. 

 Mr. Newport announced the recent discovery of Scolopendrilla 

 notacantha of Gervais, which he had found at Sandwich in Kent. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a fossil which he had obtained at Stones- 

 field, and which from its form appeared to be the large elytron of a 

 beetle, especially as Dr. Buckland had obtained many elytra from 

 that place, and which, in his Bridge water treatise, were described 

 as Buprestideous, but which Mr. Westwood regarded as Prionideous, 

 Dr. Buckland having exhibited them to him together with some tri- 

 lobites recently received from Cincinnati, together with another, 

 supposed to be a Calymene, but which Mr. Westwood regarded as the 

 abdomen of Pinnotheres. This distinction was important, since, if 

 correct, it implied the existence of recent animals in the supposed 

 older formations (of which the fossil tooth recently found at Stones- 



