26 



Dendrophilus pygniaeus, L. Two speciiueus, likewise an inhabitant of, and found 

 on the 20th of July in, nesls of Formica rufa. One other individual only of this 

 insect is extant, he believed, in British cabinets, namely in that of our late respected 

 honorary President, the Rev. W. Kirby, who applied to it the trivial name of Shep- 

 pardi, under which it has been beautifully figured by Mr. Curtis (Brit. Ent. tab. 131), 

 and described in the works of Mr. Stephens. Dr. Aube has likewise described and 

 delineated it (Annales de la Soc. Ent. de France, tome ii.) as Hister formicetorum, 

 Sihi. Dr. Erichson (Kaefer der Mark Brand), having before him a Swedish example, 

 refers it without doubt to the Hister pygniaeus of Linnaeus, Paykull and Gyllenhal, 

 remarking that " the descriptions of the two last-named writers being somewhat 

 indefinite, it might well happen that such accurate entomologists as Aube and Curtis 

 failed to recognise it." 



Dorcatoma rubens, Ent. Hefie, Stepk. One specimen taken a day or two since 

 in a decaying oak, and which, it would appear, was an extraordinarily precocious 

 individual, as no others were to be found, although the larvae, evidently about to 

 assume the pupa state, were in abundance: on these he would bestow occasional 

 attention, and hoped at no distant period to be able to furnish his friends with this 

 species, whose allotted space in our cabinets had remained so long almost universally 

 vacant. 



Cryphalus binodulus (JFeJer), Ratzehurg. Four' specimens, both sexes, taken a 

 day or two back in the bark of an aspen (Populus fremula). This genus (a dismem- 

 berment of Bostrichus), of which no member had hitherto been recorded as British, 

 was erected by Dr. Erichson for the reception of those species in which the antennae 

 have the funiculus consisting of four articulations (in Bostrichus, as restricted by the 

 same author, the funiculus is 5-jointed), For a beautifully characteristic figure of the 

 male of this species, from the accurate pencil and graver of S. Weber, he referred the 

 studenj to the first volume of Batzeburg's ' Forst-Insecten,' tab. xiii. fig. 18. 



Mr. Stevens stated that, amongst a quantity of plants lately received from Mr. 

 Mason at Madeira, he had found several Lepidopterous larvce, which had produced a 

 species of Plusia allied to P. Gamma, and several specimens of a curious Pyralis,both 

 of which he exhibited : he observed that no doubt many reputed British species had 

 been brought into this country iu a similar manner. 



Mr. Hunter took this opportunity of stating that some doubts existed as to the 

 claims of the specimen of Eriopus Latreillii, which he exhibited at the last meeting, to 

 be considered a British insect ; it was found on the outside of one of his breeding-cages, 

 and as there was a quantity of foreign plants in the house at the time, it probably had 

 been imported therein : he certainly had had no larva bearing any resemblance to the 

 descriptions given by Continental writers of that of Eriopus Latveilli. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Turner, an apparently new species of 

 Depressaria, probably D. Libanotidella, taken near Newhaven, Sussex. 



Mr. Newman sent for exhibition some curious Cocci, covered with a downy 

 substance, found on grass at Darenth Wood. 



