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been hatched, and which were probably deposited by the female after being placed in 

 the box. 



*' 4. A species of the curious heteropterous genus Phyllomorpha, or dead-leaf bug, 

 closely allied to the Cimex paradoxus of Sparrmann, brought from the interior of 

 South Africa. It may be thus characterized : — 



" Phyllomorpha Livingstonii, WesUv. 



"■ Fusco albidoque varia, longe spinosa, capite et parte antica prothoracis Hnea tenui 

 media et hujus margine postico recto albis, lobis prothoracis maximis aliformibus, apice 

 oblique truncatis, angulo antico truncaturae acutissimo, lobis segmentorum 4 et 5 

 abdominalium maximis subaequalibus apice bipartitis, divisione singula acuminata. 

 Ph. Capicola et paradoxa duplo major. 



" 5. The minute flat pupae of a species of Psylla found on the leaves of a species 

 of Bauhinia which cover themselves with a secretion similar to that of the Australian 

 Wo-me-la, which is also the produce of a species of Psylla, and which is scraped off 

 the leaves by the natives, and eaten as a saccharine dainty, as is also the case with 

 the secretion brought home by Dr. Livingstone by the natives of Central Africa. 



"6. Dr. Livingstone has fully confirmed the statements of Major Vardon rela- 

 tive to the destructive powers of the tzetze [Glossina morsitans, Westw. in Proc. Zool. 

 Soc.) in its attacks upon horses, which it very often kills ; it appears, however, not to 

 attack asses." 



Mr. Wollaston exhibited various Coleoptera lately captured near Farnborough, in 

 Kent, in a high chalky valley belonging to Sir John Lubbock, including a series of 

 Homoeusa acuminata, M'derk., an insect which was hitherto unique as British, a single 

 example having been obtained by himself a year ago, from out of au ant's nest, in the 

 same locality.^ He also exhibited specimens of Claviger testaceus and Lomechiisa 

 emarginata, likewise from the nests of Formica fusca ; and an example of a species of 

 ScopaBUS, apparently the first detected in this country. The other species to which he 

 called attention were Callistus lunatus, Tritoma bipustulatum, Byrrhus dorsalis, and 

 some scarce Pselaphidae. 



Mr. Smith exhibited the at present unique specimen of Tropideres sepicola, Herbst, 

 taken in August last, by Mr. F. Plant, in Budden Wood, Leicestershire, and now pre- 

 sented by him to the British Museum. 



Mr, Jauson exhibited a specimen of Myrmedonia cognata, M'derk., being the third 

 indigenous example hitherto recorded, taken by Mr. E. Shepherd in a nest of Formica 

 fuliginosa ; a pair of Atemeles emarginatus which he had taken in copuld, and 

 observed that he had not been able to detect any external sexual distinction ; and a 

 pair of Ampedus subcarinatus captured a few days since. 



Mr. Bond exhibited specimens of Mixodia Hawkerana bred from sea spurge, and 

 the pupa-cases from which they emerged. 



Mr. Hawker also exhibited specimens of the Mixodia, and the shoots of the sea 

 spurge in which the insects had assumed the pupa state. 



Mr. Robinson exhibited a drawing of the larva of Polyommatus Artaxerxes feeding 

 on Helianthemum vulgare, 



Mr. JansoD made some observations on Mr. Smith's remarks on Bledius hispidus. 



