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Sidebotham near Devizes ; Sibynes canus of Herbst, also from the same neigh- 

 bourhood; Peritelus griseus o{ Olivier, from Ventnor, taken by Mr. Wainwright ; 

 and Ceuthorhyn chide Hs Poweri of Rye, from Silverdale, near Lancaster. 



Mr. Smith exhibited specimens of a new British Bomb us, which he considered 

 to be the true B. pomorum of Panzer. He had long had two male specimens 

 in his collection taken by himself near Deal, and a female had recently been taken 

 by his son in the same locaUty. 



Mr. Saunders exhibited some singular galls found near Reigate on the roots of 

 oak, at least four feet below the surface, in a sandy soil. 



Mr. Smith remarked that he had repeatedly found these galls, and considered 

 them to pertain to Cynvps a/ptera. 



Mr. Saunders also exhibited specimens and drawings of three kinds of galls 

 which he had found in Switzerland : the first was a beautiful rose-coloured gall, 

 shaped hke a small fir-cone, and placed at the apex of willow twigs ; the second, 

 a red berry-like gall, found in great abundance on a species of dwarf narrow-leaved 

 Salix ; and the third were singular conical woody galls, placed on the surface of 

 beech leaves. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a strange looking woolly gall, found by Mr. C. E. Broome 

 on oak near Bath. 



Mr. Smith read a letter from Mr. Stone, of Brighthampton, calling attention 

 to the fact that many wasps' nests are deserted about the commencement of Sep- 

 tember, instead of continuing occupied up to late in the autumn, as is usually the 

 case. He also mentioned that he had found workers busy carrying the grubs away 

 from these deserted nests, and that he had noticed that these grubs were always • 

 diseased. 



Professor Westwood said that this fact might be analogous to what is called 

 " foul brood " by bee-keepers, in which case, not only do the bees and grubs die, but 

 beea fed with honey from hives so afifected also become diseased. 



Mr. Stone also mentioned in his letter that he had found some larvae of 

 Rhipiphorous so large that he at first thought they might belong to a distinct species, 

 but afterwards he imagined that these might belong to females ; these large grubs 

 he had always found feeding on female wasp-grubs. 



Mr. Carter, of Manchester, brought for exhibition four beautiful siDccimens of 

 TrncJiilium sphegiforme, which he had lately bred out of alder branches from North 

 Staffordshire. » 



The Secretary read a translation of a pamphlet by M. E. leery, of the Mauritius, 

 intituled " Pou a Poche blanche," being a history of the Coccus of the sugar-cane, 

 of which specimens were exhibited at the June Meeting of this Society. The author 

 mentioned several modes of stopping the injuries caused by this insect, amongst 

 others that of washing the plants with diluted alcohol. 



Mr. Saunders said that he had found a mixture of spirits of wine and water in 

 equal quantities the best remedy against the ravages of Coccus in his hothouse. 



Professor Westwood called attention to the fact that the so-called male Coccus 

 described by M. leery was in reahty a pai-asito belonging to the hymenopterous 

 genus Coccophagus. 



Mr. Baly read " Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Phq/tophaga." 



Mr. Wilson, of Adelaide, communicated " Notes on South Australian Ento- 

 mology." 



