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from a vault in. the cemetery. Mr. Devenish said he had 

 partaken of the Chinese dish of "bird nest" but there was 

 nothing in it to make him wish to do it again. — Mr. Mole said 

 Mr. Eugene Andre told him the other day that he had seen a 

 little owl for several nights catching moths under the electric 

 light. The bird darted from a tree near the lamp, sei~ed its 

 fluttering prey and flew with it to a neighbouring tree. Mr. 

 Andre frightened the owl and secured one of the moths. 

 Mr. Mole added that he had seen bats hunting by the 

 light. Certainly it was very interesting that these animals 

 should have so soon learned the value of the electric light .in 

 concentrating their supply of food. — Mr. Caracciolo shewed a 

 number of beetles Ancistrosomafarinoswn, which he had taken 

 from one cocoa tree. He had counted 350 and then he got tired 

 of his task. He also shewed a very large scorpion from Surinam 

 presented by Mr. Leon Giuseppi, which was like one of our 

 Trinidad species, and also a case of butterflies and an anaconda 

 skin presented by Mr. Siegert. 



An interesting meeting adjourned at 10 p.m. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND NEW SPECIES 



OF PROCTOTRYPID BRED BY MR. F. W. URICH 



FROM AN EMBIID. 



By William H. Asiimead. 



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Embidobia Ashm. n.g. 



EAD transverse, very little wider than the thorax, about 



two and a half times as wide as thick antero-posteriorly, the 

 occiput concave, the face subconvex but with a median sulcus 

 or furrow towards the insertion of the antennas ; ocelli 3, small 

 triangularly arranged, the lateral much closer to the eye margin 

 than to the front ocellus; eyes oblong or subovate, sparsely 

 pubescent. 



Antennae inserted just above the clypeus 12-jointed, in the 

 female terminating in a four-jointed club, the funiclar joints all 

 very minute, except the first, transverse ; pedicel obconical 

 stouter and longer than the first three or four funiclar joints 

 united; first three joints of club transverse; in the male the 

 flagellum is filiform with the joints except the last moniliform, 

 the last ovate or cone-shaped. 



Maxillary palpi minute, apparently 3-jointed. 



Mandibles bidentate. 



