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the base, black; hinder coxae, acute. In both sexes the elyti-a are almost alike smooth, 

 those of the female being but slightly marked near the base with the rudiments of channels. 

 Captured in ponds in Devonshire, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire. Not 

 common. 



In addition, however, to the descriptions of the insects and their habits, 

 Mr. Harrison gives much interesting entomological information, under the head 

 of 'Entomological Notes and Proceedings,' being a short summary of the 

 proceedings of the Entomological Society. The Work is expected to be 

 completed in six or eight volumes, each of -which •will be complete in itself. 

 We wish the Editor every success in his arduous undertaking. 



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Entomological. — July 3rd. E. Newman, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a living larva of the rare Notodonta Carmelita, reared from the egg, 

 and now full grown. He also exhibited a specimen of the rare beetle, Damaster Blaptoides, 

 from Japan; this being the fifth known in Europe. 



Mr. Waring exhibited several insects which had been found dead and covered with a tough 

 film, apparently of a fungoid nature. 



Mr. Janson exhibited several scarce insects lately captured in Scotland by Mr. Foxcroft; and 

 several interesting species taken on the occasion of the Society's e.'ccursion to Darenth Wood, 

 on the 17th. of June. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited specimens of the new British Anthrocera Minos, taken near Galway 

 by A. G. Moore, Esq., and forwarded for distribution among the members. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a new Lithocolletis, reared from larvaa in leaves of Vacciniiim Vitis- 

 Idma, sent from Scotland by Mr. Weaver; also Parasia Metzneriella, reared from the larva in 

 the receptacles of Centaurea nigra. 



Mr. Smith exhibited specimens of the very rare bee, Nomada armata, taken by Mr. Dossetor 

 near Swansea; also a new British Crabro, and a male of Tenthredo eingulata from the same 

 locality. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a new British beetle, Pyroehroa pectinicornis, recently taken in 

 Scotland by Mr. Buxton. 



Mr. Wateriiouse read a paper "On the Species of Amycturus and allied Genera of Coleoptera, 

 with Descriptions of some new Species." 



Mr. Westwood read "Descriptions of some New Paussidae in the Collections of Messrs. Dohm 

 and Boheman." He also read "Notes on Various Insects," by Mr. W. Varney. 



Mr. Stevens read an extract of a letter from Mr. Wallace, informing him of his safe arrival 

 at Singapore; where in a few days he had captured two hundred and fifty species of insects. 



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Would you, or any of your numerous correspondents, kindly inform me whether it is a correct 

 notion that in summer the Aphis breeds oviparously, and in the autumn, viviparously. Dr. 

 Mason Good having asserted that at difierent seasons of the year the Aphis breeds both ways. 

 At what ratio also do you believe the female Aphis breeds ." I am anxious to be set right on 

 these points, and any answer will be read with much pleasure should you deem this communi- 

 cation worthy of insertion in your valuable magazine. — T. J., Tottenham, June 16th., 1854, 



In answer to the inquiry whether there be not some method of taking the impression of 

 Butterflies' wings on paper, I beg to inform you that by putting a solution of gum over any kind 

 of paper, and pressing the wing upon it, you have a most perfect representation of the wing 

 and all its colours.— C. G. Lenny, Earasgate, 1854. 



Seeing in "The Naturalist," of this month, under the head of "The Querist," a request 



