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genus), aud two, at least, of the well-known Museum Catalogues oi Lepidopfera 

 (FapilionidcB) are his work : we may also mention a more interesting and now rare 

 volume from his pen, viz., Notices of Insects that form the bases of fungoid parasites. 

 Mr. Gray was the son of Mr. Samuel F. Gray, himself a writer on various 

 branches of natui-al science : he was born at Little Chelsea, near London, on the 8th 

 July, 1808, and was educated at the Merchant Tailors' School. Having become ac- 

 quainted with that well-known naturalist, Mr. J. Gr. Children, whose cabinet of 

 insects he arranged, Mr. Gray was, in 1831, appointed, through that gentleman's 

 influence, an assistant in the British Museum, in which Institution he remained until 

 his death, having risen through the usual grades to the position of assistant-keeper 

 under his brother, Dr. J. E. Gray, and having become a member of various scientific 

 societies, culminating in the Eoyal Society. ' After a sudden and shoi-t illness, during 

 which he was insensible for quite a week, Mr. Gray died from paralysis of the brain 

 on the night of Monday, the 6th ult. He leaves a widow, but no issue. 



Entomological Society of London, 6th May, 1872. — H. T. Stainton, Esq., 

 F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Lieut. H. Murray, 104th Fusiliers, was elected a Member, and J. E. Mason, 

 Esq., of Alford, a Subscriber. 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited a series of sijecies of Australian BuprestidcB, illus- 

 trating the sexual differences existing in insects of that group. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a large collection of Symenoptera, chiefly Aculeata, 

 sent from Japan by Mr. G. Lewis. Several of them appeared to be identical with 

 British species, and the genera were all represented in Eurbpe, save one genus of 

 ants. There were also six species of TenthredinidcB pertaining to the genus Hylo- 

 torna, and a species of Sirex closely allied to S. gigas, but apparently differing in 

 the constricted base of the abdomen. 



Mr. Verrall exhibited an example of Syrphiis lasiopldhalmus with a peculiar 

 malformation of two of the tibiae, which appeared as though they had been broken 

 and badly vmited afterwards. He attributed this to some injury received when the 

 insect had just emerged from the puparium, and when the parts were of soft con- 

 sistence. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited an aspen leaf sent by Lord Walsingham from Oregon 

 (see the cover of the ' Entomologist's Annual ' for 1872), pierced by a multitude of 

 small oval holes, caused by mining micro-lepidopterous larvae of the genus Aspidisca, 

 which cut out oval cases when fidly fed. He also exhibited living and dead 

 specimens of the moth, which gi-eatly resembled Cemiostoma sci fella, but differed 

 structually in wanting the eye-caps. 



Mr. E. Saunders read ' Descriptions of twenty new species of Buprestida.' 



Mr. H. W. Bates read a Memoir on the Longicorn Coleoptera of Chontales, 

 Nicaragua, embodying the results of the researches of Mr. Thomas Belt, in so far as 

 regarded the family under consideration. ■ Mr. Belt's collection contained about 250 

 species of Longicorns, of which 133 were peculiar to the district. Mr. Bates con- 

 sidered that an analysis of the collection elicited two general facts of much interest : 

 first, the homogeneity of the type of the insect-fauna of the forest region of tropical 

 America, extending probably over 45 degrees of latitude ; and, secondly, the existence 

 of a distinct northern element, the metropolis of which is Central America. 



