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must have been 300 or 400 : the bee proved to be Melecla 

 armata, itself a parasite in the nests of Anlhophora. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited living specimens of Physonota 

 gigantea, a remarkably beautiful species of Cassididee, which 

 however loses all its colour within two or three days after 

 death ; indeed some of them had faded and become dull 

 during life : they were brought to Liverpool from Central 

 America in a cargo of logwood, and were said to have 

 dropped out of the cracks of the wood. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a smooth corneous luminous larva 

 from Uruguay, which he supposed to be a Pyrophorus. 

 When placed in a dark room the head appeared bright red, 

 and each side showed ten bright green spots ; the lateral 

 spots were almost alwa^^s visible (in the dark), the red only 

 occasionally, and sometimes would remain invisible for ten 

 minutes together; the colours were so intense that Mr, Smith 

 compared them to the red and green signal-lamps of a 

 railway train. It was said by the sender to be capable of 

 living for two or tliree months without food, if placed in 

 earth which was kept damp and occasionally changed. 



July 0. — F. Smith, Esq., in the chair. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a living male of the field-cricket 

 (Acheta campestris), found near Farnham ; and remarked 

 that though he required to be placed in the sun to make him 

 begin his song, moisture seemed to give him an additional 

 stimulus and made him sing tlie louder. 



Mr. F. Smith also exhibited specimens, some of them 

 alive, of Pissodes notatus, from Bournemouth, showing great 

 variation in size. 



Mr. Fryer exhibited a specimen of Eupithecia togata, 

 taken in the previous month : the occurrence of the species 

 in this country had not been recorded for some years. The 

 locality was not stated. Mr, Dunning mentioned that he 

 had taken the insect at Brandon, Suffolk, in 1849, 



The Hon. T, De Grey exhibited three specimens of Cos- 

 mopteryx oiichalcea, from Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire; 

 and six of what Prof Zeller held to be a dark variety of 

 Carpocapsa Juliana, though they were (part of a large 

 number) bred from beech in April. 



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