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thus confirming the statement that these insects attach themselves to the 
bodies of other insects after the manner of Acari. 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse also exhibited a drawing of a Neuropterous insect 
of the family Ascalaphide, from Swan River, presenting the peculiarity of 
having a large bifid hump on the basal segment of the abdomen dorsally, 
each division of the hump bearing a crest of hairs. He believed it to be 
the male of Suphalasca magna, M/‘Lachlan. 
Mr. Wormald exhibited a collection of Neuroptera, &c., from the neigh- 
bourhood of Yokohama, received from Mr. H. Pryer. It contained several 
interesting species of Panorpide, including a new genus of that family, 
according to Mr. M‘Lachlan; fine species of Osmylide, &c. Amongst the 
Trichoptera was a remarkable species of the genus Perissoneura, black with 
a large white spot in each wing, deceptively resembling a butterfly, especially 
an Ithomia. 
A note was received from Mr. Albert Miiller, stating that the galls taken 
by Mr. W. Cole on ash-leaves at West Wickham, as stated in the ‘ Pro- 
ceedings’ of this Society for 1874 (p. xix.), were produced by Cecidomyia 
botularia, Winnertz, and that a life-history of the fly was given by him in 
the ‘ Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1870 (p. 1781), and reprinted in ‘ Newman's 
Entomologist’ (v., pp. 248—250). . 
Professor Westwood communicated ‘“ Descriptions of some New Species of 
Short-tongued Bees belonging to the genus Nomia, Latreille”; and also a 
paper “ On the Species of Rutelide inhabiting Eastern Asia and the Islands 
of the Eastern Archipelago.” 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse communicated a description of a new species 
belonging to the Lucanide (Prosopoccelus Wimberleyi), by Major F. J. 
Sidney Parry; and also a description of the male of Alcimus dilatatus, by 
himself. 
June 7, 1875. 
Sir Sipney SuirH SAaunpDERs, C.M.G., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ no. 161; presented by the 
Society. ‘ Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana,’ tome vii., txt § 
by the Society. ‘Mittheilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen 
Gesellschaft,’ vol. iv., nos. 6 and 7; by the Society. ‘Stettiner Hntomo- 
logische Zeitung,’ tome xxxvi., nos. 4—6; by the Society. ‘ Bulletin de 
la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, Année 1874,’ no. 3; by the 
