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Ripiphorus, remarking on the great discrepancy in size, and 

 suggesting the possibility of the existence of a second spe- 

 cies of Ripiphorus. 



The other papers related to foreign Entomology, for which 

 cannot afford space. 



Decemher 5. — Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited some mi- 

 croscopic preparations of the spiral tongues of butterflies, for 

 the purpose of showing the diversity of striation of the spiral 

 tongue in different species, and of certain papillae existing at 

 the end of that member; the papillae in Vanessa C-album 

 were very different from those of the closely-allied species of 

 Vanessa, whilst in the genus Argynnis they were found to be 

 extremely brittle. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a coloured drawing, by Mr. Buckler, 

 of the larva of Acronycta strigosa, feeding on hawthorn : and 

 a photograph of a remarkable negro variety of Abraxas Gros- 

 sulariata. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a parti-coloured wasp's nest be- 

 longing to Mr. Stone, of Brighthampton. Mr. Stone had a 

 nest of Vespa germanica in a window on the ground-floor, 

 and in a corresponding position in the first-floor window, 

 immediately over the other, was a nest of Vespa vulgaris ; his 

 attention was called to the nest on the ground-floor by the 

 different colours of different parts thereof, some of which 

 were found to be constructed of decayed wood, such as 

 would be used by the common wasp, but not by Vespa ger- 

 manica. Examination showed that the lower nest owed its 

 construction to the united labours of both species of wasps, 

 the different material employed by each determining the co- 

 lour of the portion built by that species. Further observa- 

 tion proved that specimens of the common wasp, when 

 returning homewards with a low flight, entered the nest of 

 V. germanica, apparently by mistake, and deceived by the 

 similarity of situation of the two nests. 



Mr. F. Smith also exhibited the large larva and pupa of 

 Ripiphorus, found in queen-cells of the common wasp, re- 

 ferred to at the previous Meeting. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby read the following Notes on the Syno- 

 nymy of certain British Butterflies, taken chiefly from Stau- 

 diuger's Catalogue : — 



