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to that species was stated on the ground of having seen it make the’ noise in question 
or only having heard it.” 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a Japanese collection of butierflies and beetles from 
Hakodadi, and remarked upon the close resemblance of many of tbe species, to those 
indigenous to this country. 
Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited a general collection of Japanese insects from Nagasaki, 
the greater part being Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. 
Mr, W. W. Saunders, Mr. F. Smith, Mr. Pascoe and Mr. M‘Lachlan made 
observations upon the number of Japanese forms, of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and 
Neuroptera, which were of an European type. 
Mr. F. Smitb, on behalf of Mr.S. Stone, exhibited a singularly compact and sym- 
metrical nest of Vespa sylvestris; also nests of Vespa rufa, V. germanica and V. 
sylvestris, which were constructed in 1864 by workers only. The original nests to 
which the wasps belonged, together with the queens and the principal part of each 
colony, had been removed by Mr. Stone; a few workers which remained had re- 
commenced building, but, deprived of the guidance and control of the queen, had 
produced in each case a monstrosity, an irregular and shapeless piece of clumsy work- 
manship. There were yourg larve in sealed cells constructed by the workers, which 
larve were the produce of eggs laid by the workers. 
Mr. Tegetmeier had known workers of the hive-bees to lay fertile eggs, but these had 
always produced drones; two or three eggs were laid in one cell, but not more than 
one ever hatched. . 
Mr. F. Smith pointed out that the sealed cells in the wasps’ nests exhibited were 
the cells, not of drones, but of workers, of females,—which was an extension of the 
observation and theory of Von Sieboldt. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited a twig of mulberry tree sent from Saugor, Central 
India, by Captain Alexander, on which were deposited in rows numerous eggs, which 
were probably those of a species of Ascalaphus or Myrmeleon; the arrangement of 
the eggs was precisely similar to that of the European Ascalaphus macaronius, as 
described by Dr. Brauer; the young larve that had emerged from the eggs were also 
exhibited. With reference to Geoffroy’s observation, that Myrmeleon formicarius 
immediately after emergence deposits one or two eggs, which, however, are unpro- 
ductive, Mr. M‘Lachlan said that his own observations had convinced him that these 
so-called eggs were nut eggs at all, but were in reality the meconium, which, instead 
of being voided in a liquid state, was in this instance solid, and touk the form of 
egg-like lumps. 
The Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge (who was present as a visitor) exhibited a general 
collection of insects made by himself in Palestine, Syria, Lesser Asia, Greece, &c. 
All the specimens were admirably preserved and set, notwithstanding that the collec- 
tion was made under the difficulties of being almost always on horseback, aud seldom 
staying more than a day in one place; moreover his principal object of pursuit had 
been spiders, of which he had captured a great number and of very peculiar 
forms. 
Prof. Westwood called attention to the “ Schriften der Kénigl. phys.-okon. Gesell- 
schaft zu Koénigsberg” for 1864, in which was described and figured a new Amphipod 
—a marine avimal—iv gum copal or gum anime. 
