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gratitude throughout India, although he could state from experience 

 that gnats penetrated through the musquito bed-curtains. Where- 

 upon Mr. Spence noticed the necessity which existed for minutely 

 investigating the circumstances attending the apparent abhorence of 

 flies to pass through nets. 



Mr. Westwood, in noticing Mr. Saunders's observations upon the 

 Indian species of Pelopceus (see p. 63.) and with reference to Mr. 

 Shuckard's memoir upon the Fossorial Hymenoptera, read at a 

 former meeting, mentioned that the structure of the female insect 

 warranted the conclusion of Mr. Saunders as to its parasitic habits ; 

 the fore legs in that sex, instead of being strongly ciliated, as in the 

 real burrowing hymenoptera, being simple, thus confirming the views 

 of M. de St. Fargeau. 



May 5th, 1834. 

 J. G. Children, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



History and Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalist's Club. 

 Presented by that Society. 



Number 63 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By J. F. Ste- 

 phens, F.L.S., the Author thereof. 



The Honey-Bee. Presented by Dr. Bevan, the Author thereof. 



Descriptions of some new British species of the May-flies of an- 

 glers ; and observations upon the genus Achlysia of M. Audouin. 

 By John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., &c„ the Author thereof. 



Revue Entomologique. Par G. Silbermann, Nos. 1. 2, 3, 4. Pre- 

 sented by the Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Elogio Storico di Franco Andrea Bonelli, scritto dall' Academico 

 Professore Guiseppe Gen€ (Director of the Museum of Natural Hi- 

 story of Turin) ; 



Saggio di una Monografia delle Forficule indigene. By the same 

 Author ; 



Osservazioni suUe abitudine e sulla Larva dell' Apalus bimaculatus. 

 By the same ; and 



Memoria di una specie di Cecidomia. By the same. All presented 

 by Professor Gene. 



Monographie du genre Diaperis. Par MM. Laporte et Brulle ; 



Descriptions et Figures de qnclques Arachnidep nouveaux. Par M. 

 Leon Dufour ; 



