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ants, which they dare not pass over. The secretary suggested that 
it would be very desirable to ascertain at what period of the year 
this ant swarmed, as it would be then easy to destroy the females, 
which quitted their nests in considerable numbers, and which would 
have the effect of preventing the establishment of fresh colonies. 
He had adopted this plan with the garden-ant, and had found it 
successful. Mr. Shuckard stated, however, that he had found this 
species in the winged state in moss in the middle of winter. 
Some discussion also took place on the means by which moths 
make their escape out of the cocoon by the assistance of the secretion 
with which one end is found to be discoloured. Mr. Waterhouse stated 
that the silk was thereby dissolved, and it was questioned whether 
this secretion proceeded from the mouth or the anus, being by 
some regarded as the analogue of the red fluid discharged by some 
butterflies, and which Mr. Shuckard considered as analogous to 
the meconium of infants. As, however, it was from the end of the 
cocoon, where the head first appears, it is more probably discharged 
from the mouth ; the president, indeed, stating that the fluid dis- 
charged from the anus is differently coloured. 
5th December, 1836. 
The Rev. F. W. Hope, President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. i. part 2 ; 
and vol. ii. part 1 . Presented by that Society. 
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. vi. part 2. By 
that Society. 
Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, for 1836, part iii. 
By that Society. 
Nouveaux Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de 
Moscou, tom. iv. ; and 
Bulletin de la Soc. imp. Nat. de Moscou, tom. ix. Both pre- 
sented by that Society. 
The Magazine of Natural History, for November and December. 
By the Editor. 
The Athenaeum for November. By the Editor. 
A Collection of Insects from the Interior of British Guiana. By 
R. H. Schomburgh, Esq. 
