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Mr. Walker. Sixty-one species of minute British Hyme- 

 noptera. 



Mr. Shipster exhibited a series of insects, principally 

 Coleoptera, obtained from turpentine. 



Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited a selected portion of a collec- 

 tion made in India by Mr. Downes, Assistant- Surgeon in the 

 Indian Army. It contained specimens of groups, previously 

 supposed by the Rev. F. W. Hope and Mr. Westwood to 

 have been indigenous to Africa and North America respec- 

 tively. 



A larva, found by the Rev. L. Jennings in the lock of his 

 desk, was exhibited. It appeared not to be accidentally located 

 there, but to have chosen this singular nidus. 



The second part of a Paper on the Antennae of Insects, by 

 Mr. Newport, was read. After detailing a variety of facts 

 and experiments, to show that the antennas were not the 

 organs of smell, the conclusion arrived at by the author was, 

 that, although in some insects they are made use of as tactors, 

 their main office is connected with the sense of hearing, 

 throughout the insect tribes. The Rev. F. W. Hope con- 

 firmed the observations and opinion of Mr. Newport, and 

 drew a comparison between the joints of the antennae and 

 the articulations of a telescope ; and, from some strong analo- 

 gies between the senses of seeing and hearing, he thought 

 the antenna? might act as a sort of ear- trumpet, the seat of 

 their sense of hearing being in or near the basal joint of the 

 antennae in insects. 



Sitting of the 5th March, 1838. 



J. F. Stephens, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Donations were announced as follows, viz : — 



The Author. Yarrell's British Birds, Nos. 4 and 5. 



Mr. N. Wood. Naturalist, No. 15. 



The Editor. Magazine of Natural History for March. 



Zoological Society of London. Proceedings of that 

 Society, January to August, 1837. 



The Conductors. Annals of Natural History, No. 1. 

 (New Series). 



The Editor. Athenaeum for February. 



