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Description de la Nycteribie de Vespertilion. By the same ; 



Description de quelques especes du genre Phalangium. By the 

 same ; 



Description du Xylocoris rufipennis. By the same. All presented 

 by J. O. Westvvood. 



Dejean, Species general de Coleopteres, Vols. 4, 5 and 6, were also 

 upon the table, purchased by the Society. 



Twenty species of British Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, By W. 

 Raddon, Esq. 



Specimens of the Ink Gall Nut, and of the insect by which it is 

 produced (Cynips gallce tinctoria). Presented by Dr. Burton. 



Memoirs, Exhibitions, &c. 



Letters were read from Signer Passerini and Dr. Hammerschmidt, 

 of Vienna, returning thanks for their election as Honorary Foreign 

 Members of the Society. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope communicated a letter and drawing which 

 he had received fi'om Mr. J. F. Davis of Bath, relative to a supposed 

 fossil insect, found in the coral rag at Steeple Ashton, apparently 

 belonging to the Isopodotis Crustacea. 



The same gentleman also exhibited a large collection of Fossil 

 Crustacea, collected by himself in the Isle of Sheppey. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a specimen of Andrena nigrocenea, the 

 four terminal joints of one of the tarsi of which had been devoured 

 by an ant, the head of which alone remained attached to the limb. 

 It had been captured in this state by himself whilst on the wing. He 

 read some notices in illustration of the pertinacity with which ants 

 attack larger objects : thus the Formica elongata, Oliv., attacks with 

 its jaws, " et d'une maniere opiniatre," the antennae and legs of a green 

 Melolontha of Tranquebar. Messrs. Kirby and Spence mention an 

 instance in which Collluris longicollis was observed to have a minute 

 dead ant, scarcely a thirteenth of its size, fixed by its jaws to one of 

 the legs ; and in another case, an ant although deprived of half its 

 body, contrived previously to expiring to carry off ten of the white 

 pupae into the interior of the nest. ('Introduction to Entomology,' 

 vol. ii. p. 101. and vol. i. p. 366.) 



The following Memoirs, &c. were read : 



Notice of the Proceedings at the Linnsean Society during the 

 month of April, relative to Entomology, communicated by the Secre- 

 tary, and consisting of a memoir by Edward Newman, Esq., F.L.S., 

 upon the transformations of insects, subsequently published by the 

 author in the Entomological Magazine; also of the exhibition by Mr. 



