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ordinary joints. This, which was supposed by Mr. Newport to 

 be the only instance yet observed of reproduction amongst the My- 

 riapoda, led to an extended discussion as to the mode in which 

 this kind of reproduction either in insects or other annulosa is 

 effected. 



Sir Thomas Phillips exhibited specimens of Cryptophogns cel- 

 laris, which had attacked some raspberry jam, and rendered it un- 

 fit for use. 



Mr. Moore exhibited a small wasp's nest built beneath the 

 projecting ledge of a window. 



A paper in Latin by Dr. Imhoff of Basle was read, consisting 

 of critical observations vipon Mr. Kirby's Monographia Apum 

 Anglice. 



Mr. A. White communicated an extract from Sir A. Halliday's 

 work upon the West Indies, relative to the migrations of Dragon- 

 flies. 



December 2d, 1839. 

 George Newport, Esq., in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Manual of British Coleoptera. By James F. Stephens, Esq., 

 the Author thereof. 



British Coleoptera delineated, No. 8. By Messrs. Spry and 

 Shuckard. 



No. 14 of an Introduction to the Modern Classification of In- 

 sects. By J. O. Westwood, the Author thereof. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society for May. By that So- 

 ciety. 



No. 36 of the Magazine of Natural History. New Series. By 

 the Editor. 



The Athenaeum for October and November. By the Editor. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. G. R. Waterhouse exhibited the larva of a Lamellicorn in- 

 sect, from the body of which an elongated fungus or Sphceria had 

 grown. Other instances of a similar kind were mentioned, in- 

 cluding the growth of similar excrescences on great numbers of 

 North American Cicadce, by Mr. Stephens. 



Dr. Calvert read a notice of the attacks of one of the Noctuidce 



