ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. IxV 



mon wasp, Vespa vulgaris, found in the roof of his house at Nor- 

 ton, Durham. From its enormous size Mr. Hogg was induced 

 to think that it must have been the work of more than one 

 season. 



Mr. Dallas read a paper, accompanied by a figure, on a new 

 Hemipterous genus, for which he proposed the name of Urochela. 



Mr. J. W. Douglas read a continuation paper on the genus 

 Gelechia of Zeller. 



Mr. Westwood called the attention of the Society to the de- 

 scriptions and notices which he had published in his Introduction 

 and in the Journal of the Proceedings of this Society for July, 

 1847, of a minute but singular Hymenopterous insect, parasitic in 

 the nests of mason bees and wasps, to which he had applied the 

 name of Melittobia Audoumii, having at the same meeting exhibited 

 specimens of the insect and drawings of the structural details. 

 The facts and characters, given in these notices were sufficient, he 

 said, to identify the insect and to distinguish it from every known 

 species of the family to which it belongs. Notwithstanding this 

 Mr. Newport, who was present at that meeting, had recently read 

 a memoir on the same insect before the Linnsean Society, and had 

 given it the name of Antliophorahia reiusa, the description of 

 which, however, communicated by Mr. Newport to and published 

 in the Gardener's Chronicle of the 24th of March last, was per- 

 fectly unintelligible, six out of nine of the characters being erro- 

 neous. The following Mr. Westwood considered to be the essen- 

 tial characters of the genus, which belongs to the Clialcididce. 



" Antennse maris 9-articulat8e, articulo Imo maximo, subtus ad 

 apicem excavato ; articulis 4to, 5to, et 6to minimis : foeminse sim- 

 plices 8 articulatae, articulis, in utroque sexu, apicalibus clavam 

 ovalem formantibus. Mas omnino caecus. Fcemina oculis ocel- 

 lisque instructa. Alse maris abbreviatae, fceminae magnitudinis 

 ordinariae, alee vena ordinaria Eidophorum typicorum instructa. 

 Tarsi 4-articulati. 



" Habitat parasitica in nidis apum caementoriarum." 



Mr. Westwood added, that in the report of the proceedings of 

 the Linnaean Society of May 1st (in the Gardener's Chronicle of 

 the 6th instant), Mr. Newport was made to state that he (Mr. 

 Westwood) had mistaken the antennae of the larvae of the Ichneu- 

 monidce for ocelli, the fact being that although De Geer had de- 

 scribed these dark points as eyes, Mr. Westwood having in view 

 the structure of the head in the larvae of the saw flies, which have 

 both eyes and ocelli, and of the aculeate Hi/menoptera having 

 neither, had expressly guarded himself from determining their 

 nature, and had simply said that they resembled eyes. 



