1884] 263 



ptera and IchnetcmonidcE, the former from Margate, the latter from Sevenoalis,'&c. 

 Also about 35 species of parasitic Hymenoptera bred from the galls of Cynips 

 Kollari ; several of these were undetermined and probably new. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited the specimen of Fhaneroptera falcata. Scop., 

 captured by Dr. Mason in Cornwall {of. ante p. 186) ; and a living Dipterous parasite 

 that had emerged from a cocoon of Megalopye citri, Sepp, from Brazil. 



Mr. H. W. Bates sent a communication, in which he mentioned that his Bros- 

 cosonia elegans had been previously described by Von Harold as Miscodera Donitzi. 



Sir S. S. Saunders exhibited, and remarked on, a species of Chalcididce parasitic 

 on Blastophaga in Italian figs, especially in connection with the Cynips caricce of 

 Hasselquist, and the necessity, or otherwise, for " caprification." 



Mr. Distant read the first portion of his projected Memoir on the Ehynchota of 

 Japan, chiefly drawn up from materials collected by Mr. Lewis. 



Mr. Elwes read further notes on the genus Colzas. 



Mr. Poulton read notes on the protective attitudes assumed by the larvss of 

 Sphinffidce and Saw-flies. 



Dr. Leuthner read a description of JLgogyiathus Waterhousei, a new genus and 

 species of Dorcidce from Peru. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse read a description of Eurytrachelus picipes, a new species 

 of Dorcidce from the Solomon Islands. 



hth December, 1883. — R. McLachlan, Esq., F.E.S., &c., Yice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



The Chairman announced the death of Dr. Le Conte, one of the Honorary 

 Members of the Society. 



Gr. B. Buckton, Esq., F.R.S., was elected a Member. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited curious egg-cases of an insect from Delagoa Bay, collected 

 by Mrs. Monteiro, attached by a loop to twigs of a shrub, which Sir J. D. Hooker 

 said was probably one of the Ehamnacea ; they wei-e sub-diaphanous, shining, and 

 yellowish in colour, and about an inch in length, but varying in size, and contained 

 a number of eggs placed in an erect position. Mr. McLachlan and Mr. Wood- 

 Mason remarked on these cases, the former expressing a dec'ided opinion that they 

 pertained to some species of Mantidm, which the latter somewhat doubted.* 



Mr. Billups exhibited Pachylarthrus smaragdinus, bred from the pupae of the 

 celery-fly ; also certain rare British Tenthredinidce, viz., Paecilosoma Fletcheri, 

 Tenthredopsis inornata, and Tenthredo LacJdaniana, recently described by Mr. 

 Cameron. 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited Athous difformis, Lac, captured at Hastings by Mr. 

 Collett. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch said that Priocnemis Pasooei, Kirby, from New Zealand, was 

 an Ichneumon, and a variety of I. lotatoriiis, F., the type of which is in the Banksian 

 Collection (now in the British Museum). 



A communication was read from the Colonial Office, through the Royal Gardens 

 at Kew, respecting the supposed occurrence of Phylloxera in the Colony of Yictoria. 



Mr. Miskin communicated descriptions of new Australian Rhopalocera, chiefly 

 from Queensland. 



Mr. Meyrick read a paper on the Classification of Australian Pyralidina. 



• Mr. Wood-Masou has .since acquiesced in this opinion. — R. McL. 



