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brought dried examples before the meeting on the 5th 

 ultimo ; also another species of the same genus collected by 

 Dr. Livingstone in Central Africa, remarkable for the rounded 

 tubercles with which its surface is studded. This latter 

 species, according to Dr. Livingstone's observations, enters 

 the feet of the natives, between the toes, causing pain and 

 inflammation. 



Undescribed Species ofPhycita. — Mr. S. Stevens exhibited 

 an apparently undescribed species of Phycila, taken near 

 Gravesend, bearing much external resemblance to certain 

 species of Crarabus, and especially to C. perlellus, of which 

 it possessed the pearly lustre. 



Ants Storing Grain. — Mr. F. Smith stated that he had 

 received a further communication from Mr. J. T. Moggridge, 

 now at Mentone, respecting the storing of grain by ants 

 of the genus Aphenogaster, as mentioned at the meeting on 

 the 1st of January. Mr. Moggridge had confined a colony of 

 the ants in a glass vessel, so as to observe their habits, and 

 he was able to confirm his previously-expressed belief that 

 they feed upon the stored grain. 



Coleopterous Fauna of Eastern Siberia and Western 

 Europe. — Mr. H. W. Bates exhibited a number of British 

 species of the genus Carabus, arranged side by side with the 

 species which were their nearest representatives in Eastern 

 Siberia, as illustrations of the wide difference which exists 

 between the Coleopterous fauna of Eastern Siberia and of 

 Western Europe. He added that of about fifty species of 

 Carabus inhabiting Eastern Siberia, only one (C. granulatus) 

 was found also in Western Europe, the other forty -nine 

 being quite distinct. He recalled the attention of the Society 

 to the wide acceptance which the zoo-geographical division 

 of the globe, as propounded by Dr. Sclater, had received 

 amongst zoologists. An amendment of these divisions had 

 been since pro])osed by Prof Huxley, who, however, did not 

 change that portion of Sclater's generalization which con- 

 cerned the subject now under consideration, and which 

 established the whole of Europe and Northern Asia as one 

 great division, termed the " Pala^arctic." This division 

 appeared to apply very well to the classes of birds and 

 mammals, but not to insects, as was shown by the great 

 amount of difference existing in the genus Carabus and in 

 other genera of Coleoptera. Each species exhibited was 



