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The tlireo cubital cells arc visible, the 3rd beinpj rudimentary ; none of the ncrvures 
reach the margin. Tho fuscous cloud characteristic of the species is present, 
interrupted by thi'ee hyaline spots, one on the inner nerve of the 2nd cubital cell, 
one on the 1st recurrent nerve, and one on the inferior nei-vo of the first cubital 
cell. Tho liinder wings, with their nerves and cells, are similarly and proportionally 
abbreviated. With the exception of the failure of the costal nervure, nearly tho 
same phenomena occur in Pezomaclms hemiptcrus, F., and others of that genus. 
That the larger Crypti should be subject to this imperfection is, I believe, a new 
fact, and serves to bear out a theory which I have long entertained, that many 
(and possibly, under some circurastaucea, all) Ichneumons might occur with aborted 
wings. Another case in point is the Brachypterus means, Grav., which I believe to 
be nothing more than the pedestrian form of Ichneumon crassipes, L. Let any one 
diligently compare these insects, and he will find it impossible to separate them 
except by the wings. Moreover, I have a specimen whose wings are of intermediate 
length, rendering it doubtful to which form it should be referred. Bmchypterus ia 
changed in Forstcr's monograph to Pterocomus, without any reason being assigned. 
It is, moreover, a true Ichneumon by its concealed ovipositor, and not a Pezomachus ; 
the latter genus embracing the apterous modifications of Cryptus, Phygadeuon, and 
Hemiteles, which, have the ovipositor exserted. — T. A. Marshall, Milford, Dec, 1866. 
Cannibalism of the larva of Eupithecia minutata.— On the 27th of last mouth , 
Mr. D'Orville showed me tho strange sight of a larva of this species engaged in 
devouring one of its companions. He had about a dozen of tho larva), nearly full- 
grown, confined in a cage sufficiently large for them, and well supplied with then- 
proper, food— the flowers of Calluna vulgaris; so that neither overcrowding, nor 
starvation, could have been the incitement to cannibalism. 
The victim had evidently been attacked behind the head, and its destroyer 
was so absorbed in its repast, that neither the being shut up in a chip box, nor the 
being carried about for three or four miles, made it desist, till it had left nothing 
but a shrivelled skin. 
This is tho first instance I have known of cannibahsm among the small 
Qeometrcc. — J. Hellins, November 12th. 
Entomological Society of London, 3rd December, 1866 ; Sir John Lubbock, 
Bart., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
E. T. Higgins, Esq., of Bloomsbury Street, and Andrew Swanzy, Esq., of 
122, Cannon Street, were elected ordinary Members ; G. H. Schrader, Esq., of 
Shanghai, China, was elected a Foreign Member ; and G. H. Verrall, Esq., of School 
Hill, Lewes, P. L. Keays, Esq., of Green Lanes, N., and Walter Thornborrow, Esq., 
were elected Subscribers. 
Mr. Evans sent for exhibition a large number of Coleoptera found in bales of 
New Zealand wool ; the greater part were Pyronota festiva, but many other species 
were also present. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited living examples of Gracilaria scalariella bred from 
Echiuyn vulgare, from the south of France, and an aphis-gall on Pistachia lentiscus, 
containing a Lepidopterous larva, probably of one of the knot-horns. 
