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BtarcK 7, 1 S^S.r-^jjEdward Newman, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the 

 "' Chair. 



The followitfg pJapers -were read : — 



A note from Mr. Hogau on a specimen oi HipparchiaJanira haying 

 the pollen masses of Orchis hifolia attached to its head, which Sir 

 J. E. Smith had thought in the case of bees to be one of the modes 

 employed by nature for the fructification of flowers having a viscid 

 pollen. 



M. Morren in a paper in the ' Mcmoires de 1' Academic de Brux- 

 el,les,' has stated that wild bees are frequently found with their 

 heads studded with pollen masses of Asclepias. 



Mr. F. Smith's ' Monogi-aph of the genus Cryptocerus with de- 

 scriptions of two new genera of Cryptoceridce belonging to the family 

 Myrmicid(sJ' 

 " The following are the characters of the new genera and species : — 



^"•^ 'V Cryptocerus. 



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 7" ,"■ 1. Cryptocerus dubitatus. 



Male. Length 5 lines. Head and thorax black, rugose punctate ; 

 stemmata three, placed forwards on the vertex ; antennae ferrugi- 

 nous ; thorax, the collar produced at the anterior angles into a short 

 acute tooth ; metathorax produced at the posterior angles into a 

 sharp spine ; wings ferruginous ; legs ferruginous, the coxse and 

 trochanters black ; abdomen, the two nodes black, the rest ferru- 



Hab. Brazil. 



2. Ci-yptocerus JEthiops, n. sp. 



Neuter. Length 3i lines. Black opake, lateral margins of the 

 head dilated and slightly raised, within which is an indistinct longi- 

 tudinal ferruginous stripe ; at the posterior angles of the head are two 

 acute spines, and in front of each eye beneath the dilated margin is a 

 short tooth visible from above ; at the vertex of the head are also two 

 minute spines. The anterior angles of the thorax acute, behind 

 which is a short spine or tooth, behind which is a stout elongate 

 spine bidentate at the apex ; the posterior angles are also armed with 

 acute spines, not so long as the anterior pair ; nodes of the abdomen 

 unarmed ; abdomen globose, deeply emarginate in front, the emargi- 

 nation receiving the posterior node ; the head, thorax and nodes of 

 the abdomen have distant large shallow punctures ; abdomen very 

 delicately shagreened, polished on the disk, and having a few scat- 

 tered punctiu-es. 



Hab. Brazil. In the British Museum and my own collection. 



