lis 



as British, by the natne of Callidiiim luriduin, but he believed its chiiins to be considered 

 a native were rather doubtful. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited two specimens of Papilio Antenor, Drury, sent 

 from Madagascar by Mr. Layard, and read the following note of their capture by that 

 gentleman. " I have sent two not very good specimens of Papilio Antenor of Drury, 

 which I shot at Boyana Bay, Madagascar. They fly very high, and I could not obtain 

 them in any other way. I have two more from the French missionaries, who said they 

 did sometimes come down." 



Mr. Bond exhibited two living examples of Acrocinus longimanus, and two speci- 

 mens of Deilephila lineata, caught near Brighton on the 12th and 14th ult. He also 

 exhibited two dead pupae of Sphinx Convolvuli, found last autumn in a potato-field 

 near Canterbury ; and an enormous cocoon of Eriogaster lanestris, three larvae having 

 united in forming it. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited specimens of Deilephila lineata from Lewisham and 

 Torquay. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited specimens of a species of Cecidomyia, which he had 

 bred from small galls found on buds of the common broom. 



Mr. Janson exhibited Sphaerites glabralus, Khinomacer attelaboides and other 

 Coleoptera from Scotland. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited Lithocolletis Helianthemi, bred from larvae mining in leaves 

 of Helianthemum vulgare, received from Eatisbon ; and a specimen of Aspidisca 

 splenderiferella, an American species of Tineina, bred from Cralcegus tomentosa. 



Mr. Moore exhibited a living example of the Eria silk moth {^AUacus Ricini) bred 

 from a larva which fed on the castor-oil plant. 



Mr. Gorham exhibited the following Coleoptera : — 



Dinarda dentata. Taken by Mr. Crotch in nests of Formica fusca. 

 Huploglossa nifipennis. Taken in sandpits near Addington. 

 Mycetoporm lucidus. Wimbledon Common. 

 Eucephalus complicans. Charlton. 

 Lalhrohium punctalum. Hammersmith. 

 LeemophloBus duplicatus. Near Farnborough, Kent. 



Chryphagus micrographus. Isle of Wight, Of this species Mr. Lewis had taken 

 a single example near Croydon. 



Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited some remarkable specimens, illustrating the production 

 of fertile workers in a hive of the ordinary honey-bee {Apis mellijica). They were 

 produced by placing, in March, a comb containing eggs and larvae in workers' cells 

 only in a hive which had been some time without a queen, and which consequently 

 contained no brood whatever. There was no apparent attempt made by the bees to 

 form a royal cell and to rear a new queen from the workers' eggs, but after the latter 

 were hatched the bees produced from them laid eggs. These were deposited in the 

 drone cells only, sometimes as many as six being placed in one cell, of which only one 

 was hatched, a drone in all cases being produced. It was noticed that these fertile 

 workers were hatched and laid eggs before any drones had been observed in the adjacent 

 hives. Huber supposed that such workers were produced by partaking of some of the 

 food designed for the production of a queen, which had been deposited in the cells 

 adjacent to the royal one. This supposition was disproved, as there was no royal cell 

 in the single brood-comb which the hive contained. 



