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trace of tliein being disceniible on regardiug the insect from above, and by its slender 

 tarsi. 



"2. Phloeopbarciis spadix, flerbst, Schonh., Walton. 



" 3. Leptiniis testaceus, AJutUr, Hardy. 

 ■ " 4. Xantholinus glaber, Nordman, Eiichson, of which the only indigenous ex- 

 ample previously known is in the cabinet of the late Mr. Kirby, in whose manuscript 

 catalogue it is denominated Gyrnhypnus rolundicoUis ; the insect, bowever, represent- 

 ing Xaniholinus rotuiidicoUis of Stephens in his collection is a small variety of X. 

 punctulatus, Fab., Eric. 



" 5. Slenus contractus, Eric, (fornicatus of Kirby 's but not of Stephens' collection ; 

 basalis, Curtis.) 



" 6. Homoeusa acuminata, M'derkel, Kraatz, Wollaston. 



" 7. Tomicus (Bostricbus) bispinus, Ratzehurg, Bald, nee Guyon, 



" 8. Homalota confusa, M'derhel, Kraatz, Walerhouse. One of three specimens 

 taken, a few days since, in a nest of Formica fuliginosa, by my kind and assiduous 

 friend and colleague Mr. Edwin Sbepherd." 



Mr. Janson likewise exhibited a box of Coleoptera just received from Ranuocb, 

 where they bad been recently taken by Mr. Foxcroft. The species most noteworthy 

 were Arapedus tristis, Rbyncolus ater, both sexes of Dictyopterus Aurora, Elaphrus 

 uliginosus, Anchomenus Ericeti, and Calathus micropterus. 



Mr. Smith brought for distribution amongst the members some series of named 

 specimens of British ants, and exhibited some cocoons said to have been found in the 

 debris of a hornet's nest, and from one of which his correspondent assured him a. male 

 hornet bad emerged ; on examination, however, it was discovered that the remaining 

 cocoons contained Bombi. 



Mr. Wilkinson observed that he had tested a portion of the cloth-like substance 

 exhibited at the last Meeting, which was said to be the production of some insect ; 

 the result of his experiments, bowever, proved it to be of undoubted vegetable 

 origin. 



Mr. Weslwood called attention to the continuation of Sepp's ' Nederlansche 

 Insecten,' the publication of which had been resumed in Holland: he was happy 

 to say that entomologists appeared to be going energetically to work in that country, 

 the recently published parts of the 'Transactions of the Netherlands Entomological 

 Society' containing several excellent memoirs. 



Mr. Westwood read the following note : — 



" With reference to a note by Mr. Newman, published in the ' Zoologist,' p. 5()'29, 

 on the subject of the introduction of Acenlria nivea into the order Lepidoptera, I beg 

 leave to refer those who may be interested in the question to the first volume of the 

 'Transactions' of this Society, p. 118, where, twenty-three years ago, I proved the 

 truth of this relationship; also to my 'Introduction to the Modern Classification 

 of Insects,* pp. 324 and 413 ; to my ' British Moths and their Transformations,' 

 vol. ii., and to Kolenati's ' Monograph of the Trichoptera,' p. 6. Why the propriety 

 of the removal of Narycia elegans of Stephens, with its pectinated antennae, well- 

 spurred legs and want of thoracic tippets, to the order Lepidoptera, as afllirmed by Dr. 

 Hagen, should as a matter of course involve Acentria in the like fate, does not appear 

 to me quite evident. As Mr. Newman, moreover, considers my arguments insufficient 



