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In ooTiplufiinj!; tlii^ nnlirc wp onnnot resist cnllitic; nttoiition tn events that no 

 one cotild possibly have felt more keenly than Henry Doubleday. When he was 

 horn, Epping was suiTouncled by one of the finest old forests in England, the eolitude9 

 of which were scarcely disturbed by anything save the huntsman's horn, for deer 

 were then plentiful in it. (Who knows but that the accident of birth in such a 

 locality may not have been the means of developing the taste for Natural History in 

 Doubleday and his brother ?) He lived to hear in it the screech of the locomo- 

 tive, and to see its finest portions rutlilessly destroyed ; and we can easily imagine 

 what a satisfaction it must have heen to him to know, before his death, that, after a 

 severe legal struggle, the little that remains of it will hereafter be unmolested. 



iVfr. Doubleday died unmarried. Wliat will become of his collections we do 

 not yet know. In addition to the purely British collection of Lepidoptei'a whieli is 

 so far-famed, there exists a very extensive and valuable continental collection. 



Entomological Society of London : ^th July, 1875. — Sir S. S. Satjndees, 

 C.il.O., President, in the Chair. 



W. Bon-er, Jun., Esq., of Cowfold, Sussex, and A. F. Sealy, Esq., of Cochin, 

 India, were elected Members, and W. D. Gooch, Esq., of Natal, a Subscriber. 



The President informed the meeting of the decease of Mr. II. Doubleday, one 

 of the original Members of the Society, and Jlr. Sta'inton made a few remarks on 

 his entomological labours. 



Mr. Dunning said that the Ornitho'ptera from Cochin, bred by Mr. Sealy, and 

 exhibited at recent meetings, had been identified as O. Minos. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two large Curculios from New Fribourg, Brazil, attached to 

 the same twig, and both attacked by a fungus. Mr. Janson said they pertained to 

 the genus Hylopus, and were weU known to be subject to such attacks. 



The President exhibited a lock, taken from a gate at Twickenham, entirely filled 

 with the nests of a species of Osmia, which Mr. Smith said was most probably O. 

 bicornis. lie also exhibited an example of tlie minute IJylechiJirns rtibi, one of the 

 StylopidtB parasitic upon Frosopis ruhicola in l*'piru8, recently obtained from im- 

 ported briars, and remarked upon a method of expanding the wings of Stylopidm. 

 In repose, tlicso wings are rolled up in an elongate form, but he found that by pressing 

 them gently forward from below, they suddenly become erect, and are then easily re- 

 tained an expanded condition. Further, he exhibited (^ ? of Spilomena troglodytes 

 reared from bramble-stems found at Shcre in SuiTey, and a scries of Ilalicius nilidius- 

 culus stylopizcd ; and recommended entomologistSjgoing to the south-coast in August,to 

 • search for stylopizcd ILalicli. Finally, he remarked on the parasites of Osmia and 

 Anthidium ; and exhibited two species of the Coleopterous genus Zonitis (Z. muiica 

 and Z. hifasciata) reared from the cells of Osmia tridcntata, and a third {Z. prausta) 

 from those of Anthidium contractum, which latter had also produced two species of 

 ChalcididcB {Leucospis dorsiyera and Eurytoma ruhicola). lie enumerated eleven 

 insects as attacking the same O.smia in various stages, of which ho had himself reared 

 six species, including the two Zonitea aforesaid ; the other four being Crypttix limac- 

 ulatus, Melitohia Audouini, Ilallicella osmiicida, and Chrysis indiyotea ; Dufour and 

 Perris having also recorded Slelis minuta, and two species of Uiptera, Senometopia 

 spinipennis and Conop.t Jlavipes ; two other Crypti {C. confu.ior and C. siynaiorius) 

 being cited by Dr. Giraud. The Zonitis devoured the egg and pollen-paste whereon 

 the Sleli.? also subsisted ; the C/irysis, Crypti, and Senometopia fed upon the soft 

 larva) externally ; llalticella was reared within the more solid adult lai-vo", whoso 

 iiitegimient, dessieated and black (ii.s in .specimens exliibited), serve<l fur t lie liibernul ion 



