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jupon a small bare spot of ground, certainly not more than two feet square, and here 

 I found a cluster of beautifully granulated curved tubular entrances, eleven in all, 

 plosely resembling the entrance tubes made by O. spinipes to its nest, the tubes 

 Irising from the surface of the ground about one inch and a half, and, while examin- 

 ing these curious structures, I managed to take two more specimens on their return 

 to their storehouses, each having a larva of some species of Lepidoptera in its mouth. 

 |Al heavy shower of rain prevented me from continuing my observations, and from 

 jcapturing more on this occasion. On taking the three specimens to my friend, Mr. 

 [jEdward Saunders, for his kind identification, he at once pi'onounces them to be 

 Odynerus reniformis, Grmelin, and informed me that, with one exception, this species 

 had never before been met with in England, he having taken a <? at Chobham in 

 I June, 1876. Acting upon his advice, I again visited the same spot a few days after, 

 ; the result beijig the capture of nine ? and two $ . On opening one of the cells I 

 I found it stored with no less than 33 small larvae of a species of Noctua, and 4 sawfly 

 larvse, all alive, but apparently paralyzed by the sting of the wasp. Upon visiting 

 the same place again at the end of June, I found that the railway company's servants 



I had mown and burnt the herbage along the banks, leaving not a vestige of vegeta- 

 ' Ifcion, nor of this rare wasp. — T. R. Billups, 20, Swiss Villas, Coplestone Road, 



'Peckham : July, 1884. 



II Deliphrum tectum, Pk., cf'c, in Warwickshire. — Early in May last, I captured 

 three specimens of Deliphrum tectum, under bones placed in a shrubbery at Knowle 

 18 a trap for Homalotce. At the same time and place, and under similar conditions, 

 [ took Ilyohates nigricollis, Pk., and Callicerus obscurus, Gr., and C. rigidicornis, 



I 'dEr. — W. Gr. Blatch, 214, G-reen Lane, Smallheath, Birmingham : July \Qth, 1884. 



U Ancyrophorus homalinus, Er., at Betodley. — Whilst digging into the banks of 

 '" the Severn at Bewdley a few days since, in search of Homalota insecta, I turned 

 Dut two examples of Ancyrophorus homalinus, a beetle new to this district. — Id. 



Entomological Society op London : 2nd July, 1884. — J. W. Dunning, 

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



Dr. Fritz Miiller and Dr. Packard were elected honorary members, and C. Q-. 

 Barrett, Esq., of Pembroke, an ordinary member. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited various species of Phytophagous beetles, to shew 

 the extraordinary effect that exposure to light had pi-oduced on their colours. Fiery 

 red had turned to bright green, pale yellow to brown, blue to black, and green to 

 purple. The specimens exhibited had been in the public galleries of the British 

 Museum for twenty-five years. 



Dr. Sharp shewed curious cases from house-thatch, containing a species of 

 Lucanidce (Odontolabris carinatus), sent from the hills in E. Hindostan, by Mr. 

 Inglis. The cases were about a quarter of an inch thick and smooth inside, they 

 jwere thought by their finder to be hibernating cases, but Dr. Sharp thought they 

 might possibly prove to be cocoons. He also shewed the larva of a small Cassida 

 {Porphyraspis tristis, Dej.) from Bahia, which gathers fibres, and makes a nest like 

 an inverted bird's nest, under which it lives. 



