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Dr. Blundell stated, in connexion with Mr. Sells’s remarks, 
that he had observed that in the southern states of North America 
as well as in England the partridges which feed upon a large ant 
are better flavoured than the ordinary ones. Mr. Sells also 
added that poultry are fed in the West Indies upon the larvae of 
ants or white ants, men being regularly employed to collect the 
nests of those insects in the woods and bring them home. 
Mr. Sells also stated that the larvae of Prionus damicornis are 
eaten both by the blacks and creoles in the West Indies. 
May 7 th, 1838. 
J. F. Stephens, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club for 1837. 
Presented by the Club. 
No. 17 of the Magazine of Natural History. By the Editor. 
Fabricii Entomologia Systematica. 2 vols. Presented by the 
Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Nos. 23 and 24 of the Entomological Magazine. By the 
Editors. 
The Athenaeum for April. By the Editor. 
No. 1 of an Introduction to the Modern Classification of In- 
sects. By J. O. Westwood, the Author thereof. 
Charles Thurston Thompson, Esq., of Bedford Place, Kensing- 
ton ; and 
J. W. Horsley, Esq., of Turnham Green, 
were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 
Memoirs, Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. Sells exhibited specimens of Copris lunaris and of the 
cocoon in which they pass the pupa state, and which appeared 
entirely to consist of vegetable matter. 
Mr. Evans exhibited a specimen, accompanied by a figure, of 
Notonecta glauca, to the hind tibiae of which were attached cer- 
tain oval masses resembling eggs, and which were considered to 
be the ova of one of the water mites described as a distinct animal 
under the generic name of Achlysia. 
