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Members and Subscribers of the Zoological Eecord Association. The Insecta, as 

 usual, occupy much space, and the recorded notes on the publications on that division 

 of Zoology in 1871 amount to 234 pages. Entomological students are certainly not 

 diminishing in number. New Subscribers shoiild at once forward their Subscription 

 (£1) to Mr. H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham, London, S.E.— Eds. 



Entomological Society of London, \*7th February, 1873. — Prof. Westwood, 

 President, in the Chair. 



A. E. Hudd, Esq. (formerly a Subscriber) was elected an Ordinary Member, 

 and Dr. H. Burmeistcr a Foreign Member. 



Mr. Bond exhibited long series of bred specimens of Acronycta psi and tridens, 

 with preserved larvae of the two species. The tridens had all been reared from pear. 

 He remarked that the dark specimens so often occurring in A. psi were never repre- 

 sented in tridens, and that the latter always possessed a pinkish tint in fine fresh 

 bred specimens, which, however, was very evanescent. 



Mr. Miiller exhibited the egg-case of some species of Mantidce, and a case of a 

 species of PsychidcB formed of pieces of twig arranged spirally ; these had been sent 

 from India by Mr. Eothney. 



Prof. Westwood exliibited two dipterous larvse discharged by a woman in a clot 

 of phlegm. They appeared to belong to Psila rosce, which is known to feed upon 

 carrots, and he suggested, when they were submitted to him, that the person had 

 possibly been eating raw carrots, which, upon enquiry, was found to be probably 

 the case. These larvae had lived for three days in alcohol. He also exhibited 

 tubercles on vine-stems, probably formed by a beetle of the genus Otiorhynchus. 

 Mr. Miiller remarked that Mr. Eiley had recorded a similar habit in an American 

 beetle {Baridius Sesostris, Lee). Prof Westwood further exhibited roots of vine 

 dilated and constricted in a joint-like manner, which he thought was probably owing 

 to former attacks of Phylloxera. 



Mr. Briggs exhibited parallel series of the large and small form of Anaitis 

 plagiata ; both had been taken in Tilgate Forest in June in separate years, which 

 proved that the small form was not a second brood as commonly supposed. 



Mr. H. W. Bates read a paper on the Geodephagous Coleoptera of Japan. Ho 

 described or enumerated 241 species, whereof 118 were new and chiefly collected by 

 Mr. Greorge Lewis. Nine genera were peculiar to Japan ; 44 genera were common 

 to Japan and Western Europe ; 52 European genera were not found in Japan, and 

 38 from Japan were not found in Europe. One genus had only previously been 

 known from North America. 



Mr. Miiller read a list of entomological works and papers published up to the 

 year 1862, no notice of which was to be found in Dr. Hagen's ' Bibliotheca Entomo- 

 logica ; ' he expressed a wish that other Entomologists would, in like manner, make 

 known any similar omissions that might be detected by them. 



Mr. Smith read a translation of Prof. Siebold's paper on the salivary glands of 

 the Honey-Bee. Prof. Siebold had obtained honey by feeding bees upon malt. Mr. 

 Smith further read a list of the T'espidcB and A2ndee occurring in Japan, chiefly 

 from materials collected by Mr. G. Lewis and his native assistant ; of 73 species, 49 

 were previously unknown. He remarked that the distinctness of his Apis nigro- 

 cincta troin A. mellijica, recently questioned by Dr. Gerstiicker, had been abundantly 

 confirmed by the discovery of a queen of A. nigrocincta. 



