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W. [lope. Other communications were made to the Society by Mes- 

 srs. Evans, Westwood and Doubleday. — Id. 



218. Entomological Society, July 4, 1842. — W. W. Saunders, Esq. 

 in the chair. Numerous donations of books from the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society of England, Count Fischer de Waldheim, the Marquis 

 de Breme, Professor Agassiz, Mr. A. White and others were announ- 

 ced, as well as a large case of Mexican Coleoptera, by E. P. Coffin, 

 Esq. C.G. Mr. F. Smith exhibited various British Hymenoptera, with 

 illustrations of their economy. Mr. Westwood exhibited various in- 

 sects, including a new Indian Goliathus from the Bristol Institution, 

 a new genus of Coleoptera of doubtful family from the collection of 

 M. Dupont. Specimens of Orchestes Quercus and its parasites reared 

 fi'om oak-leaves from Weybridge. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a box of 

 British moths, recently captured in marshy ground at Hammersmith, 

 including the following rare species: — Leucania obsoleta, L. suffusa, 

 Nudaria senex, Melia sericea, Chilo gigantellus and phragmatellus. 

 The Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited a case of Coleopterous insects from 

 Cape Palmas, including many new and singular species. Mr. Saun- 

 ders exhibited numerous gall-like nidi upon a twig of Lophospermum 

 from New Holland ; also specimens of Tryphaena pronuba impaled by 

 the butcher-bird. Mr. J. F. Stephens exhibited a specimen of Calo- 

 soma sycophanta recently taken in Kent, and Mr. Ingpen a fossil wing 

 of a Limnobia from the lias near Gloucester. Mrs. North presented 

 a small wasp's nest, the inhabitants of which had put to flight a hive 

 of bees, in the hive of which they had built their nest. Mr. Raddon 

 exhibited a specimen of Goliathus Drurii, Westw. (giganteus, McL.) ; 

 and Mr. Hope read several long extracts from a letter received from 

 the Rev, Mr. Savage, at Cape Palmas, relative to the habits of the 

 Goliathi, a considerable number of which (G. Drurii, Cacicus, prin- 

 ceps and torquatus) and other insects, had been forwarded to Mr, 

 Hope. A paper was read containing further observations on the ha- 

 bits of Mygale lonica, by J. S. Saunders, Esq. The Revds. C. Ku- 

 per and T. S. Savage were proposed as members of the Society. — Id. 



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