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Meeting agreed pretty closely, diflfeiing, however, somewhat in the sculpture of the 

 head and thorax. He remarked that he had met with the male only, the female, 

 according to Germar, has the hemelylra truncate — a structure obtaining in M. Psela- 

 phiformis, Westtuood, Annales de la Soc. Ent. de France, iii. (342, tab. vi. f. 3 (1834). 

 [Loricula Pselaphiformis, Curtis, Ent. Mag. i. 197 (1833) ; Microphysa pselaphoides, 

 Burmeisler, Handb. d. Entom. ii. 286 (1835) ], and which may possibly prove to be 

 the female of the present species, although here the apical joints of the antennae are 

 decidedly the longest, and the rostrum is broad and scarcely exceeds the head 

 in length. 



Mr. Westwood observed that so long a period had elapsed since his attention was 

 given to the species in question, that he could not then express an opinion in this 

 matter ; the specimen which Mr. Janson had placed in his hands would enable him 

 to institute a comparison, the result of which he would communicate at a future 

 time. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a specimen of a new species of Cemiostoma, bred by Mr. 

 T. Wilkinson, from Lotus, and for which the name " Lotella " had been proposed -. 

 the insect is closely allied to C. scitella, from which it differs in the narrower anterior 

 wings, ihe different position of the radiating dark lines in the cilia, and in having the 

 apical spot from which these lines appear to emanate, black, instead of tawny as in 

 scitella. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited two hermaphrodites in the aculeate Hymenoptera, viz., a 

 specimen of Nomada baccata, and of Andrena nitida; in both insects the male cha- 

 racters were on the right side of the body. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited pupas of a Lepidopterous insect found under bark of syca- 

 more, and presumed to be tliose of Stigmonota Regiana ; also a living example 

 of Trinodes hirtus, and a specimen of Acrognathus mandibularis, a Coleopterous insect 

 new to this country, taken at Darenth Wood, about three years ago. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a fine specimen of the Carpocapsa, which he had 

 recently bred from the Mexican "jumping seeds," for which he proposed the 

 name of 



Carpocapsa saltitans. 



C. AlcB anlicis g^iseo-albis cinereo rivulosis ; casta Uneolis ciiviter 16 obliquis alter- 

 natim tenuibus, anc/ulo apicali nigricanti playa parva ovali albida ; margine 

 postico prope basin macula parva quadrata nigricanti, plagaque postica magna 

 conica cinerea, nigra lineala et marginata ; margine apicali griseo plumbeo et 

 albo variegato serie duplici punclorum minuLorum nigrorum ; alls poslicisfuscis ; 

 capite et collari brunnesccntibus ; palpis extus fuscis, inlus albidis. Expans. 

 alarum antic, lin. 9. 

 Hab. — Larva in seiniuibus plantie Pcruvianae Calliguaja diclae, quae molu salla- 

 torio mire progrediuntur. 



Mr. Westwood exhil)ited a drawing, lately received by Mr. Spence from India, of 

 the winged male and apterous worker of a species of Dorylus, together with the larva 

 and pupa of the latter, which had been communicated to Herr Neitner by the Hon. 

 Walter Elliot. The male is of the ordinary Dorylus form, that sex having only 

 hitherto been observed, but the worker is a species of Mr. Westwood's genus 

 Typhloponc. Herr Ncitucr's letter is as follows : — 



