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Sphex and Odynerus, as described by him in our ‘ Transactions’ (vol. iv., 
ser. 2, 1858, pl. 28). These larvee had also been met with in Bombus by 
Latreille, Dufour and others, as well as in Osmia, but not in Andrena, which 
moreover had been doubly victimized in the present instance, having the 
greater portion of the abdomen preoccupied by another invader, and thriving 
in spite of this and of the Conops larva subsequently lodged at the base. 
The Secretary exhibited some specimens of a minute Podura forwarded to 
him by the Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, having been found 
on the snow of the Sierra Nevada in California. 
Mr. I’. H. Ward exhibited some microscopic slides showing specimens of 
a flea attached to the skin of the neck of a fowl, and which remained there 
after the death of the fowl. 
Papers read, éc. 
Prof. Westwood communicated descriptions of a new genus (Allochotes) of 
Clerideous Coleoptera from the Malayan Archipelago. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan read a paper entitled ‘A Sketch of our present Know- 
ledge of the Neuropterous Fauna of Japan (excluding Odonata and 
Trichoptera).” 
New Part of ‘ Transactions.’ 
Part 1 of the ‘ Transactions’ of the Society for 1875 was on the table. 
July 5, 1875. 
Sir Sipney SuitH SAaunpDeERs, C.M.G., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors : 
—‘ Fedtschenko’s Travels in Turkestan,’ tome ii., part 5—Neuroptera, by 
R. M‘Lachlan; presented by the Author. ‘Proceedings of the Scientific 
Meetings of the Zoological Society of London,’ 1874, part iv.; 1875, part 1; 
by the Society. ‘Seventh Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial, and 
other Insects of the State of Missouri, made to the Board of Agriculture, 
pursuant to an Appropriation for the purpose from the Legislature of the 
State,’ by Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist; by the Author. ‘The 
Canadian Entomologist,’ vol. vii., no. 5; by the Editor. ‘ Newman’s Ento- 
mologist’ and ‘ The Zoologist,’ for July; by the Editor. ‘The Entomologist’s | 
Monthly Magazine,’ for July; by the Editors. ‘Exotic Butterflies,’ part 95 ; 
by the Author, W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 
By purchase: —‘Skandinaviens Hymenoptera,’ bearbetade af C. G. | 
Thomson, vol. iii., parts 1 and 2. | 
