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exhibit. Tlieie were other similar twigs on the same bush. Of course I am 

 perfectly well aware that it is impossible to say for certain that the insect 

 mistook the leaves for a yellow flower ; but it certainly settled upon them in 

 such a manner as to leave little doubt on my own mind that they did so." 



Mr. J. W. Dunning called attention to a " Note on a peculiar sense-organ 

 in Scutigera coleoptrata," one of the Myriapoda, by Mr. F. G. Heathcote 

 (Proc. Camb, Phil. Soc, v. 219). The organ is situated on the ventral 

 surface of the head at a short distance from the mouth, near the base of the 

 mandibles ; and the author believes it to be homologous with the tympanic 

 organ of insects, and to belong to the class of organs usually described as 

 auditory. 



May 6, 1885. 

 R. M'Lachlan, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 respective donors. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited a species of BruchidcB, and its firm cocoon, 

 which was constructed in the pod of the leguminous plant in which it fed, 

 in South Brazil. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited, on behalf of M. Alfred Wailly, two 

 living larvae of Hemileuca maia, Drury, which he believed to have been 

 reared from the egg for the first time in Europe : these specimens had been 

 fed upon whitethorn, but their natural food was oak or willow. The eggs 

 were received from Illinois, U.S.A. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited numerous specimens of Andricus radicis, 

 Fabr. (the gall-maker), Si/neri/us iiicrassatus, Hart, (the iuquiline), and C(dli- 

 mome erucanan, Schrank (the parasite), all reared from a single gall : of the 

 latter there were fifty-four set specimens, and many additional living ones. 



Mr. Billups also exhibited two living specimens of Carabus miratus, L., 

 which had been captured, on April 30th, in the Borough Market out of a 

 bunch of French radishes ; the bunch also contained a specimen of Dytiscus 

 punctulatus, Fabr. 



Mr. J. W. Duiming called attention to the following, from the Parlia- 

 mentary Intelligence of this morning's ' Times '; — 



"Insects Injurious to Crops. — Mr. Rankin asked the Chancellor of the 

 Duchy of Lancaster whether the Agricultural Department had any reports 

 or treatises upon insects injurious to crops, and especially to hops, and, if 

 so, whether they had been published in a form suitable to farmers and hop- 



