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‘Descriptions of American Lepidoptera, No. 2, by A. R. Grote and C. T. Robinson; 
by the Authors. Newman’s ‘Illustrated Natural History of British Moths, No. 12; 
by the Author. ‘The Zoologist’ for December; by the Editor. ‘The Entomologist’s 
Monthly Magazine’ for December; by the Editors. Also, a portrait of Lyonet; by 
H. Hartogh Heys v. d. Lier. 
The following additions, by purchase, were also announced :—‘ British Moths,’ 
Nos. 1—5; ‘ Genera des Coléoptéres d'Europe,’ Livy. 136. 
Election of Members. 
W.C. Boyd, Esq., of Cheshunt; Herbert Druce, Esq., of Ealing; A. H. Hali- 
day, Esq., of Carnmoney, County Antrim; and Joseph Ince, Esq., of 26, St. George’s 
Place, 8.W.; were severally ballotted for, and elected Members. 
Evhibitions, Sc. 
Mr. Pascoe exhibited a new species of Thysia from Sumatra, which he proposed to 
describe under the name of T. viduata; and pointed out that T. tricincta of Laporte, 
from Java, was distinct from T. Wallichii of Hope, from Upper India. 
Mr. Pascoe also exhibited several other interesting Coleoptera, including new 
forms of Trogositide from Penang, of Tenebrionide from Ceylon, Sumatra and 
N’Gami, of Brenthide from Batchian, of Curculionide from Peru, of An- 
thribide from the Philippine Isles and Malacca, and of Lamiide from Java and 
Malacca. 7 
Prof. Westwood exhibited the only known British specimen of Serropalpus striatus, 
captured some years ago in Leicestershire. It was the identical insect recorded in 
the ‘ Zovlogist’ for 1844, p. 701. 
Prof. Westwood alsu exhibited a smal! spherical nest, made of mud, with a white 
silken casing inside; it was found on the common ling near Reigate, in July, 1866, on 
the occasion of the Society’s visit to Mr. W. Wilson Saunders, and was then thought 
to be the nest of a spider. It had, however, produced the hymenopterous Eumenes 
atricornis. 
Mr. F. Smith’remarked that the Eumenes atricornis of Curtis was the coarctatus 
of Linneus; he had found many of the females at Bournemouth, carrying off a Lepi- 
dopterous larva (probably Eupithecia nanata) which fed upon ling. It was an error 
to suppose that the larve of Eumenes were fed upon honey. 
Mr. F. Smith exhibited a piece of dead willow-wood found at Mitcham, in which 
were no less than ten cocoons of Megachile Willughbiella within a radius of an inch. 
The burrows or perforations in the wood were lined with rose-leaves, but the same 
species of leaf-cutting bee did not always confine itself to the same kind of leaf—rose, 
elm, laburnum, and others were used; in one instance he had known them to use lilac- 
leaves, and he believed that they would take almost any leaf that happened to grow 
near the nest. Some species made an inner lining of a different kind of leaf from the 
outer coating; he had known Megachile argentatus to form an inner lining of the 
petals of Lotus coruiculatus, and M.centuncularis of the petals of the scarlet 
geranium. 
