XXVlll PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Mr. Weir exhibited specimens of a minute species of ant {Myr- 

 m'lca domestica), which infested the house of Mr. Norton, in Half 

 Moon Street, Piccadilly, where they swarmed in thousands. 



Colonel Hearsey exhibited a specimen of the mud-nest of a 

 species of Odyncrus from India, which had been built in the angle 

 of a room, and provisioned with spiders. 



Mr. Weaver exhibited some rare British insects captured by 

 himself in Perthshire during the preceding summer, including 

 specimens of Libellula arctica, and of Pytho depressus ; the latter 

 being an insect stated by Mr. Waterhouse to be common in 

 Sweden, but new to this country, four specimens of which had 

 been taken under the bark of pine trees by Mr. Weaver, from 

 whom a letter was read relative to the capture of these and other 

 insects, which he had collected for sale. 



A letter was read from Mr. Spence, describing the havoc com- 

 mitted by Anohimn tessellatum, on a beam of oak supporting the 

 stone-work of the vestry window of Barham Church, Suffolk, 

 which was completely honey-combed with holes of the size of a 

 small quill formed by the larvae, and precisely resernbled the 

 end of the beams of houses at Brussels destroyed by the same 

 insect, which he observed in 1836, (vide Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. ii., 

 Proc. p. X.), and in some of which were dead specimens of the 

 perfect insect, which, from some cause, had not been able to make 

 their way out of the wood upon assuming the perfect state. 



Mr. Ingpen exhibited the larva of a Lepidopterous insect, pro- 

 bably that of an Agrotis, which was at that time committing great 

 ravages amongst the carrots about Stratford, Essex. 



A letter was read from Captain Hutton, descriptive of the mode 

 in which Actios Selene cuts its way through the cocoon, and on 

 the habits of its caterpillar ; also on the habits of Cheirotonus 

 Macleaii; and on a singularity in the wings of the genus Euploea, 

 forming a sort of pocket. 



Mr. Doubleday observed, that the pouch described by Captain 

 Hutton, could not be considered as a character of the genus 

 Euploea. 



A letter was also read from Mr. Rutter, of Black Rock, Brigh- 

 ton, respecting the nests of Megacldle, of which he forwarded 

 specimens. 



A memoir, containing descriptions of numerous new species of 

 Cctoniidce, with figures of three species, and dissections, by Dr. 

 Schaum, was read. 



• ■ Longley, Esq., was ballotted for, and elected a Member 



of the Society. 



