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and under the most putrid ones I found Ips, Epurea (two 

 species), Soronia (two species), Cryptacba (two species), Cy- 

 chramus, and Haploglossa. Whetlier the fellows preferred 

 fruit to their legitimate food I cannot say ; but I recommend 

 the trial in Shirley and other metropolitan woods, where rot- 

 ting trees with oozing sap are not always to be found. — 

 George Lewis; Nagasaki., July 28, 1864. 



GQ. Fluid ejected hy Larv(B. — I take this opportunity of 

 mentioning a fact in connexion with the subject of the fluid 

 ejected by larvce as a means of defence. In July last I found 

 a sawfly larva feeding on the leaves of the hawthorn. It had 

 the habit, when handled, of squirting a clear, or sometimes 

 greenish, juice from the anus. — Joliii Peers. 



67. Entomological Society, October -3, 1864. — Mr. Dun- 

 ning announced the arrival of, and exhibited, a miscellaneous 

 collection of insects from India, collected and presented by 

 Lieut. Beavan. Mr. Janson exhibited an extensive series of 

 insects, of all orders, collected by Mr. Pullinger, chiefly in 

 the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. Major Parry sent for ex- 

 hibition a box of Coleoptera, collected at Gibraltar by his 

 son. Mr. Stevens exhibited a large rhynchophoron, from the 

 body of which a number of filamentous Fungi had grown. 

 Mr. Bond announced that he had found in the crop of a 

 partridge the Agrotis larvae which this year had been so de- 

 structive to the turnips and other crops, thus showing the 

 value of the partridge as a destroyer of this pest. Mr. Sharp 

 exhibited three species of Coleoptera new to Britain — Auta- 

 lia puncticollis, a new species ; Tachinus proxiraus of 

 Kraatz ; and Lesteva monticola of Kiesenwetter. Mr. Pascoe 

 read a description of a new Cyphagogus and a new Atracto- 

 cerus, and Mr. Baly a paper on new genera and species of 

 Phytophaga. 



Presentation of a Silver Vase to Mr. Saunders. — Prior 

 to the usual business at the Meeting of the Entomological 

 Society of London, held on the 7th of November, a hand- 

 some silver vase was presented by the undermentioned Mem- 

 bers to their former President, William Wilson Saunders, Esq., 

 F.R.S., V.-P.L.S., Treas.R.H.S., &c., in acknowledgment of 

 the generous aid which for years he has bestowed upon every- 



