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of Talceporia cembrclla and Incurvarla masculella. The pupa 

 case of the former had been found on a wooden fence at Penge, 

 and the moth appeared in April. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a drone and queen of the hive bee, 

 which had been captured in copula on the ground about two yards 

 in front of the hive by a friend. The female was very pale in 

 colour, evidently from having only recently arrived at the perfect 

 state, and the abdomen was not larger than that of an ordinary 

 worker, in consequence of the ova not having been yet developed. 



Mr. Newport stated that he had found a drone near a hive 

 wanting the male organs, which had doubtless resulted from an 

 act of copulation with a queen, and Huber had noticed the same 

 fact. 



Mr. Edward Doubleday communicated the discovery which he 

 had recently made in a species of Syntomidce, allied to Glaucopis, 

 but with transparent wings {Lcemocliaris ?) of a structure analo- 

 gous to the drum of the Cicadce, which he did not think had as 

 yet been noticed in any Lepidopterous insect. 



Mr. Spence communicated some extracts and observations on 

 the honey bees in Brazil, and on an insect which is injurious to 

 the cotton crops in North America ; his chief object in so doing 

 being to recommend to the members in like manner to note and 

 bring before the Society any new fact relating to insects met with in 

 the course of their reading and which may lead to interesting and 

 useful discussion, at the same time that the information stumbled on 

 by one member becomes available to all, and that hints for future 

 important inquiries may be thus suggested. Mr. Gardner, F.L.S., 

 Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden in Ceylon, in his inte- 

 resting Travels in Brazil lately published, after stating that on a 

 part of their route from Parnagua to Natividade he was presented 

 at almost every house where he stopped with honey, the produce 

 of one of the smaller bees, mostly of lUiger's genus Melipone, so 

 numerous in this part of Brazil, proceeds to give a list of their 

 native names, with a few observations, as follows : — 1. Jataky. This 

 is a very minute yellowish coloured species, being scarcely two 

 lines long. The honey, which is excellent, very much resembles 

 that of the common hive-bee of Europe. 2. Mulher branco. 

 About the same size as the Jataky, but of a whitish colour ; the 

 honey is likewise good, but a little acid. .3. Tuhi. A little black 

 bee, smaller than a common house-fly ; the honey is good, but has 

 a peculiar and bitter flavour. 4. Manoel iVAbreu. About the size 

 of the TnVi, but of a yellowish colour; its honey is good. 5. 

 Atakira. Black, and nearly of the same size of the Tub/, the 



