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June 7, 1858. 

 J. O. Westwood, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to he given to the 

 donors: — ' First and Second Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and other Insects of the 

 Slate of New York, made to the State Agricultural Society, pursuant to an appropria- 

 tion for this purpose from the Legislature of the Slate,' by Asa Fitch, M.D. ; presented 

 by the author. 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. ii.. No. 8; 

 hy the Society. ' The Natural History Review,' Vol. v., No. 2 ; by ihe Dublin Uni- 

 versity Zoological Association. 'A Monograph of the Asiatic Species of Neptis and 

 Athyma, two genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Nymphalidae,' 

 by Frederic Moore ; ' Descriptions of some New Species of Lepidoplerous Insects 

 from Northern India,' by Frederic Moore; hy the Author. ' Annales de la SocietJ 

 Eutomologique Beige,' Tome premier; by the Society. ' Bibliolheca Historico- 

 Naturalis,' Vol. vii.. No. 1 ; by the Author, E. A. Zuchold. 'The Zoologist' for 

 June, 1858; by the Editor. 'List of the Specimens of Lepidoplerous Insects in 

 the collection of the British Museum,' by Francis Walker, F.L.S., &c. ; Part xiv. 

 — Noctuidae; by the Author. ' Report of the Proceedings of the First Meeting of 

 the East Kent Natural History Society;' by Captain Cox. 'The Journal of the 

 Society of Arts ' for May ; hy the Society. 'The Literary Gazette' for May ; by the 

 Editor. ' Descriptions de Six Longicornes Exotiques Nouveaux,' par M. Chev- 

 rolat (from Archiv PJntom.) ; presented by the Author. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a n umber of Coleoptera found in nests of Formica fuliginosa 

 and F. rufa, amongst which were examples of Myrmedonia cognata and M. lugens, 

 and a line series of Dinarda Maerkelii, taken near Guildford, of which he distributed 

 specimens amongst the members present. 



Mr. Smith exhibited a specimen of Myrmica cingulata, found by Mr. S. Stevens 

 in a nest of Formica fusca, and examples of Myrvnica lippula and Ponera contracta, 

 found by Mr. Janson in company with Formica fuliginosa ; he wished those entomo- 

 logists who were in the habit of searching for Coleoptera in ants' nests would bear in 

 mind that several rare species of Myrmicidee are only to be met with in the nests of 

 the different species of Formica, and that two or three such species of Myrmica well 

 known to continental entomologists have not yet been discovered in this country. 



Mr. Janson exhibited an example of a species of Trichonyx, found by Mr. 

 E. Shepherd in a colony of Formica flava, under a flint on the " Hogsback," near 

 Guildford, on the 2181 ult. Mr. Janson observed that it was the same species which 

 he had alluded to in his piiper on Coleoptera frequenting anis' nests, in the 

 ' Entomologist's Annual' for 1857, but he had not yet been able to identify the insect 

 with either of the two known cimtinental species of this genus. 



Mr. Janson also exhibited specimens of an Hemipterous insect which he had taken 

 on several occasions in nests of Formica rufa at Hampstead and Highgate, and which 

 he was disposed to refer to the Microphysa myrmecobia, Maerkd, in Germ. Zeitsch. 

 f. d. Ent. v. 262, 276 (1844), with whose description the individuals before the 



