tj2 ^ [August, 
field of discovery for the zoologist, and will assuredly throw much light on the 
laws and conditions which have resulted in the wonderful variety of colour, shade, 
and marking which constitute one of the most pleasing characteristics of the animal 
world, but the immediate causes of which it has hitherto been most difficult to 
explain." 
Entomological Society or London. 1st Juhj, 1867.— Sir John Lubbock, 
Bart., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
Dr. G. W. Davidson, of 13, Union Place, Edinburgh, was elected a Member. 
Mr. Busk mentioned that the hair-worms exhibited at the last meeting were 
not Gordnts aquaticus, as Dr. Cobbold had at first supposed, but the true Mermis 
nigrescens. 
Mr. McLachlan exhibited an example of the spider Cinijlo ferox, the abdomen 
of which was strongly infested with branching fungoid growths. It had been found 
by Dr. Knaggs, at Folkestone, under a log. He also exhibited a living example of 
a gigantic spider and centipede found in the hold of a ship recently arrived from 
Manilla. 
The Secretary exhibited branches and fruit of an orange-tree from Queensland, 
received from Mr. Moore, of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, said to be infested with 
insects. Professor Westwood said that there were two species of Coccus on the 
branches, but the fruit was apparently injured by fungi only. 
The Hon. T. De Grey exhibited Ewpcecilia rupicola and E. antheinidana from 
Norfolk. It will be remembered that the latter little-known species was bred from 
flower-heads of Anthemis cotula by the late John Curtis. He remarked also that 
he had just captured five examples of the race Hijpercallioj ChrisUernana in Kent. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited a large collection of Micro-Lepidoptera bred from larvae 
obtained at Cannes and Mentone, &c., in the early spring. The most remarkable 
of these were many examples of Depressaria rutana from ^uta angustifolia, two 
species of Gelechia (one apparently identical with our 0. ma/rmorea) from Silene 
nicwensis, a new Zelleria from Phillijrea anrjustifolia, and a Nepticula from the 
cork-oak. 
Mr. Wallace exhibited a collection of Malayan Cetoniidce, and road a paper 
on the species from that quarter, enumerating 181, of which 70 were described 
as new. 
Mr. John Lowe, of Edinburgh, communicated a long paper on Dzierzon's theory 
of reproduction in the honey-bee, in which he combated Dzierzon's ideas on this 
subject. He backed his arguments by the results of various experiments on Apis 
mellijica, A. ligustica, and A. fasciata, instituted with a view of ascertaining what 
the hybrid progeny of these so-called species would be like. He drew the con- 
clusion that these, both drones and workers, were always affected in some way by 
the male parent. Mr. Smith said that the examples exhibited presented unmistake- 
able hybrid characters. He was inclined to consider A. fasciata a good species, 
but looked upon A. ligustica as merely a variety of A. mellijica. A long discussion 
ensued, in which the President, Mr. Busk, and others took part. 
This was the last meeting before the recess ; the next will take place on the 
4th of November. 
