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Entomological Society of London, Gth January, 1873. — Prof. Westwood, 

 M.A., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Gr. C. Champion (formerly a subscriber) was elected a member, and Mr. Cole 

 a subscriber. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited (on behalf of Mr. George Lewis) a magnificent 

 collection of coloured drawings of the transformations of twenty-four species of 

 Japanese Sphiiigidce, executed by a native artist employed by Mr. Lewis. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited the beautiful net-work cocoon of a species of small 

 moth from New Granada ; it was suspended from a leaf, to which was also attached 

 one of the Sesperiidce, strongly attacked by fungoid growth. 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited two species of BuprestidcB, from the Pelew and 

 Caroline Islands respectively, apparently pertaining to a new genus, but having all the 

 external characters of species of Chrysodema from the East Indian Islands. 



Mr. Champion exhibited two rare British species of Coleoptera, viz., Nanophyes 

 gracilis and Apion sanguineum, the former recently noticed as new to Britain in this 

 Magazine. 



Mr. Miiller called attention to a recently issued government report respecting 

 the ravages of the vine-scourge {Phylloxera vastatrix) on the continent of Europe. 

 Professor "Westwood remarked that this insect was noticed by himself in a paper 

 read before the Ashmolean Society, at Oxford, in 1862, concerning its occurrence 

 in England. 



Dr. Sharp communicated a paper on the Water-Beetles of Japan, chiefly drawn 

 up frona materials collected by Mr. George Lewis. 



Mr. Wollaston commmiicated a description of a new genus (PseudotarpJiiusJ 

 of ColydiidcB from Japan ; and also a paper on the Cossonidca of the same islands, 

 in which he described eighteen species (all new) contained in fifteen genera. 

 Mr. Wollaston stated that, so far as regards the group under consideration, he felt 

 convinced that the ordinary Europcaii types do not prevail in that part of Japan 

 investigated by Mr. Lewis, but are replaced by kindred or representative forms. A 

 discussion took place, in which Messrs. Bates, Pascoe, Westwood, &c., took part. 

 Mr. Pascoe thought the Japanese fauna might be regarded as " satellite," like that of 

 Madagascar. Mr. Bates asked that judgment be suspended until further evidence be 

 afforded, and said that, although many European species are also found in Japan, the 

 collective faunas of the two regions are totally different. 



A Catalogue of British Hymenopteea ; Part 2, compUed by the Rev. T. A. 

 Marshall. Published by the Entomological Society of London (1872. Pp. viii. 

 and 136. Price 2/-). 



The readers of this Magazine are aware that a General Catalogue of the Insects 

 of the British Isles is in course of publication by the Entomological Society. The 

 Neuroptera, by Mr. McLachlan, appeared in 1870 ; the Aculeate Hymenoptera, by 

 Mr. P. Smith, in 1871 ; and these have been followed, in 1872, by a second instalment 

 of the Hymenoptera, includmg the Chrysididce, IchneumonidcB, BracoiiidcB and 

 Evaniidce. Of Chrysididce we have 22 species, arranged in six genera, and of EvaniidcB 

 only 7 species, distributed among four genera ; but these families form a very small por- 

 tion of the Catalogue now under consideration, for the Uraconidce number 125 genera 



