ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCILTY OF FRANCE. 85 



M. le CoMTE DE LocHES. Memoiie sur le vol des 

 Insectes, also Essai sur cette question, Quels sont les moyens 

 les plus convenables pour propager la culture de TAbeillc dans 

 les pays montueux tels que la Savoie ? 



M. GuERiN. Monographic du genre Limnadla, also Mono- 

 graphic du nouveau genre Calognatha^ also Notice sur le genre 

 Fulcjora. 



The Royal Society of London. The First Part of the 

 Philosophical Transactions of that Society. 



A letter from M. Lefebvre was read, resigning his office 

 of Secretary to the Society, on account of his removal from 

 Paris. After the letter was read, the Society deliberated on 

 the expediency of proceeding immediately to the election of a 

 new Secretary, or of deferring the matter to the next Sitting : 

 the latter was agreed to. It was further resolved, on the 

 proposition of the President, that the Assistant Secretary 

 should write to M. Lefebvre, expressing to him the regret felt 

 by the Society on account of his resignation ; and that both 

 letters should be printed in the record of the Society's Trans- 

 actions. 



M. AuDouiN communicated to the Society some observations 

 made by M. Payon, on the existence of small crustaceous 

 animals, of the order Branc/dopoda, in the salt-water pits in 

 the neighbourhood of Marseilles. When the water, by 

 constant evaporation, becomes saturated with salt, these little 

 animals speedily die ; and rising from the bottom, where they 

 continued while alive, float on the surface, their bodies emitting 

 a smell of violets, and tinging the water with a red colour, 

 which indicates the approach of the salt harvest. Linnaeus 

 named this little insect Cancer salinus, from the circumstance of 

 its having been first found by Schlosser in this situation. M. 

 Audouin also stated that he had been consulted by the muni- 

 cipal authorities at Versailles in reference to multitudes of small 

 insects which infested the flour in the granaries of that town ; 

 he found them to consist principally of the small coleopterous 

 insect called by Linneeus Ptimis fnr. Its presence in such 

 immense quantities in flour was a fact that M. Audouin con- 

 sidered entirely new to entomologists, who had previously 

 invariably spoken cf it as attacking collections of various 

 kinds, especially those containing skins and other animal 

 substances. It was on account of tiiis propensity, that De 

 Geer called this insect VriUette carnissiere. It is doubtless 



