280 rMay,1867. 
Occii/rrence of Oxytlvyrea stictica near Manchester.— SomG specimens of 0. stictica 
were found in a garden at Whalley Kauge (a south-western suburb of Manchester) 
on the evening of Monday last, crawling upon soil which had been shaken from the 
roots of British Ferns collected last year. I can offer no theory to account for the 
circumstance of their occurrence ; and can only say that they are in a perfectly 
fresh condition, and present every appearance of having only just completed their 
final change. — J. Hardy, 118, Embden Street, Hulme, llthAiml, 1867. 
Entomological Society of London. 18th March, 1867. — Professor Westwood, 
M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Dr. A. E. Davies, of Edinburgh, and M. Barbier Dickens, of Paris, were elected 
Members ; F. Archer, Esq., of Liveipool, was elected a Subscriber. 
The Chairman anuounced that the Council had under consideration the publi- 
cation of a general Catalogue of British Insects, but there was great difficulty 
about the Diptera. It was considered veiy desirable that country entomologists 
should collect their indigenous species, noting dates, &c., for the purpose of serving 
towards the production of a tolerably complete list. 
Mr. F. Smith read descriptions of new species of Crijptoceridce. 
Captain Hutton communicated a paper " On Species and Varieties." 
Ist April, 1867. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Stevens exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Higgins, six fine examples of Damaster 
hlaptoides from Nagasaki. 
Mr. Bond exhibited an illustration of the method in which the ichneumon 
Rhyssa persuasoria is enabled to deposit its eggs in the larvae of Sirex. In this 
instance the Rhyssa had pierced the solid wood with its ovipositor and sheaths, 
and in withdrawing them had left the outer sheath in the tree ; this sheath, though 
not thicker than a hair, was apparently worked into the wood by the same method 
as one would insert an awl. Mr. Smith alluded to an analogous instance as noticed 
by the late Mr. E. Doubleday, in the case of a North American species of Pelecinus. 
Mr. G. S. Saunders exhibited a mimber of si^ecimens of black Podurida?, allied 
to P. tuherculata, which had been found in great quantities in pools of water in 
Yorkshire, after the melting of the snow. 
The Secretary read an extract from a Melbourne newspaper relative to an 
immense migration of some insect, said to be a beetle, in Australia. It was sug- 
gested that the insect was more probably Orthopterous. 
Mr. A. R. Wallace read a letter he had received from Mr. Jackson Gilbanks, of 
Wigton, asserting that birds did not attack the caterpillars found on the gooseberry. 
The writer did not say whether he alluded to the Lepidopterous Abraxas grossu- 
lariata, or to one of the Tenthredinidai. Mr. Bond and other Members stated that 
they had repeatedly seen tits and other birds carry off the larvae of the moth. 
Prof. Westwood communicated diagnoses of a decade of new species of Mantis- 
pidce, mostly belonging to Trichoscelia. 
Mr. Pascoe exhibited a new longicorn from Greece, belonging to the genus 
Toxotus ; described as T. Lacordairei, Pasc. 
