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wLenever they get an opportunity of inserting their long sucker, even from the skin of 

 bullocks," 



Mr. Westwood also exhibited some singular rolls formed of the extremities of the 

 leaves of the Spanish chestnut, of the size of a small thimble ; each of these contained 

 an egg, probably of some species of Rhynchites. He also exhibited some galls 

 covered with a substance exactly resembling cotton wool, found by Mr. Groom on 

 oaks near Bath ; also a volume of drawings, chiefly of Lepidoptera and their transfor- 

 mations, made in India by Captain Mortimer Slater, and called attention not only to 

 the artistic merit of the drawings, but to the accuracy of observation evinced by the 

 MS. notes accompanying them, especially to those on a fine species of singing Cicada. 



Mr. Pascoe observed that the collection of Coleoptera collected at Macassar and 

 other parts of Celebes, lately received from Mr. Wallace, contained twenty-seven spe- 

 cies of Longicorns, all of which were Indian forms, with the exception of a Tmesister- 

 nus, a group confined to the southern islands of the Indian Ocean. Mr. Pascoe ex- 

 hibited some of the species alluded to, and also an aberrant species of Dorcadion from 

 Delagorge Bay. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited three pieces of honey-comb found attached to branches of 

 a tree, some of the cells containing a little honey. His correspondent had been at a 

 loss to account for their, to him, novel position. 



Mr. Westwood observed that it was not an uncommon occurrence for swarms of 

 bees recently escaped to commence forming a comb in such situations, aud afterwards 

 abandon it. 



Mr. Waterhouse read the following : — 



List of British Tachi/poridcE. 



" In laying before the Society the following list I beg to state that my first object 

 is to identify the species of Tachyporidis in Mr. Stephens's works and collection with 

 those of the two most important works on Staphylinidae published by Erichson and 

 Dr. Kraatz ; and, secondly, to enumerate such British species as have come under my 

 notice. It is to be understood that where Mr. Stephens is quoted thus ^ Ste.' the au- 

 thor's works only are referred to ; when quoted ' Steph.' both the works and collection 

 are included, aud when quoted ' Ste. coll.' or ' Steph. coll.' the collection only is 

 alluded to. Some of the species enumerated in this list have been kindly examined 

 by Dr. Kraatz ; they are, — Tachinus (sp. 5) scapularis =^ T. palliolatus ; Tachyporus 

 (sp. 2) formosus ; T. (sp. 8) humerosus ; T. (sp. 1 1 ) scitulus. 



Hypocyptus {Schupp.), Mannerh., Eric, 2 pulicarius, Erichs., Kz. 



Ste. Manual 3 discoideus, Erichs., Kz. 



Cypha {Kirhj), Steph., Illustr. biguttata (Cypha), Matthews 



1 longicornis, Payk., Er., Kz., Ste. 4 anisotomoides, Steph. 



Man. laeviusculus, Kz. P 



rufipes, Steph. Illustr. 5 pygmaus, Kz. P 



agaricinus, Steph. Teichophya, Mannerh., Steph. Man. 



nigripes, Steph. 1 pilicornis, Mannerh., Erichs., Steph. 



(var. minor P) Kz. 



parvula, Steph. Habbocerus, Erichs., Steph. 



rufipes, Kz. P 1 capillaricoruis, Grav., Erichs., Kz. 



