276 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the mode in wliicli, under the attacks of Sesia bcmbeciformis, 

 the bark divides in three layers. (See Entom. ii. 140). 



Mr. Newman exhibited a specimen of Naclia Ancilla, 

 Linn., a moth new to Britain, taken on the Sussex coast by 

 Mr. T. Wildman. 



Mr. Newman exhibited the lock of a door, one of several 

 which in 1866 were found at the Kent Waterworks, Deptford, 

 to be completely filled and choked up with nests of Osmia 

 bicornis, a portion having been forced out by the insertion 

 of the key : the locks were in pretty constant use, so that the 

 whole nest must have been built in the course of a few days. 



Mr. Herbert Jenner Fust, jun., communicated a paper " On 

 the Distribution of Lepidoptera in Great Britain and Ireland," 

 showing the occurrenee or non-occurrence of all the indige- 

 nous species, except the Tortric?es and Tineas, in provinces 

 and sub-provinces, after the manner adopted with respect to 

 plants in Watson's ' Cybele Britannica.' 



March 4, 1867. — Frederick Smith, Esq., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



Mr. A. H. Clarke, of 16, Furnival'slnn, E.G., was balloted 

 for, and elected a Member. 



Mr, Bond exhibited specimens of a small Ichneumon, pa- 

 rasitic on the larva of Dasypolia Templi, no less than 447 

 having emerged from a single larva. 



March 18, 1867. — Professor Westwood, Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



Dr. A. E. Davies, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, was 

 elected a Member. M. Barbier-Dickens, Ibis, Rue Paradis 

 Poissoniere, was elected a Foreign Member. Mr. F. Archer, 

 3, Brunswick Street, Liverpool, was elected an Annual Sub- 

 scriber. 



The Chairman announced that the Council had in con- 

 templation the publication of a general Catalogue of British 

 Insects, but so little attention was paid to the Diptera that 

 there would be great difficulty in compiling even an ap- 

 proximately complete list of the indigenous species of that 

 Order. Entomologists throughout the United Kingdom were 

 requested to collect Diptera, noting the times and localities, 

 and to assist the Council in the preparation of the Catalogue. 



[These Reports are confined to those portions of the Pro- 

 ceedings relating^ to British Entomology.] 



