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Do Queen Bees Sting? — Mr. Smith stated that Major 

 Miinn had asked him whether queen bees ever sting ? 

 Mr. Smith said that he had once had a queen bee on his 

 hand for some time without the insect making the slightest 

 atlem])t to sling; and Prof. Westwood said he had never 

 been slung by one. 



New British Coleoptera. — Mr. Champion exhibited two 

 species of Coleoptera recently captured by him, and new to 

 Britain, viz. Thyamis distinguenda, Ri/e, from Box Hill, and 

 Lithocaris picea, Kraaiz, from Beauly. 



Figures of Stylopidce. — Prof. Westwood exhibited drawings 

 of Stylopidae, intended to illustrate Mr. S. S. Saunders' 

 recently-published monograph of the group. 



Drawings of Japanese Sphingidm. — Mr. M'Lachlan exhi- 

 bited (on behalf of Mr. George Lewis) a magnificent collection 

 of coloured drawings of the metamorphoses of twenty-one 

 species of Japanese Sphingidae. These drawings had been 

 executed, under the direction of Mr. Lewis, by a native 

 artist, and were remarkable for the full details shown of the 

 various states ; in some cases three different varieties of the 

 same larva were figured. Mr. Lewis requested it to be 

 announced that he was willing to present the drawings to 

 any member of the Society who would undertake to publish 

 them. 



Reticulated Lepidoplerous Cocoon. — Prof. Westwood exhi- 

 bited the beautii'ul net-work cocoon of a species of small 

 moth from New Granada. This was attached to, or suspended 

 from, a leaf on which was also a species of Hesperiidae 

 strongly affected by fungoid growths. 



New Buprestidce. — Mr. E. Saunders exhibited two species 

 of Buprestidae, from the Pelew and Caroline Islands respec- 

 tively, which appeared to pertain to a new genus, notwith- 

 standing that they bore much external resemblance to two 

 species of Chrysodema from the East India Islands. 



Netv British Coleoptera. — Mr. Champion exhibited Na- 

 nophyes gracilis and Apion sanguineum, two species of 

 Coleoptera rare, or recently detected, in Britain. 



Phylloxera vastatrix. — Mr. Muller called attention to a 

 recently-issued Government Report, intituled " Papers re- 

 specting the Phylloxera vastatrix, or new vine-scourge," 

 detailing an account of the ravages of this insect in various 



