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Air. E. P. CoUett exhibited a specimen of Calosoma sycophanta, Fabr., 

 captured on the cliff near Foreness Point, Kent, by Mr. Cockerill, in 1879 ; 

 also thirteen females of .-ii/ioits f^(7/bn»/s, Lac, captured last June by sweeping 

 at night at Guestling, near Hastings, by the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield. 



Dr. Sharp exhibited two nests or cocoons he had received from Mr. James 

 Inglis, of Dilkhooslm, India, each containing a large stag-beelle, Odonto- 

 lahis carinutus, Reitter. These nests were constructed in tlie thatch of a 

 house, which was mixed witli mucli earthy matter, and were lined with some 

 fine earthy substance making tlie interior smooth. Mr. Inglis sent them 

 under the impression they were the hybernacula or "winter-nests" of the 

 stag-beetle ; but they were more probably the cocoons in which the insect 

 had undergone its transformation to the imago state, although it was im- 

 probable that the larva of so large an insect should live in and feed on 

 the thatch. 



Dr. Sharp also exhibited a small insect recently received, together with its 

 larva and peculiar nests constructed by the latter, from Senor Antonio de 

 Lacerda, of Baliia. The beetle is a small Cassida identified by Mr. Water- 

 house as Porphyraspis tristis, Dej. Senor Lacerda states that they are found 

 on the " young leaves of the cotto-nut tree." The larva constructs a nest, 

 similar in form to a bird's nest, and composed of coarse vegetable fibres, 

 which are apparently attached to the insect by a membranous process 

 extending from the hind part of the dorsal region of the insect ; the latter 

 is thus completely concealed by these fibres, so that no one would suspect 

 there was an insect beneath them. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited drawings of a new species (and probably 

 genus) of Mymaridm, which had been bred by Mr. J. M. Gooch from the 

 Coccus affecting St. Michael oranges, and which appeared to be near the 

 genus LiiiKicis, Fcirst., but had some of the characters of the Tetrastichidie ; 

 also an extensive series of drawings of tlie saws of sawflies drawn by Mr. 

 Gooch under the camera from fresh specimens. 



Mr, T. R. Billiips exhibited specimens of Triclioptcry.v breviconiis, Mots., 

 a species hitherto only found in Madeira, which were shaken out of a stack 

 of radish seed at Canning Town, West Ham, in November, 1883. 



Mr. Billups also exhibited specimens (some living) of Pelopceus atchi- 

 tectus, St. Farg., and its nest, which was found attached to a leaf of tobacco 

 from Owensboro, Kentucky, and taken from a hogshead weighing over 

 12 cwt. recently opened at Whitechapel. 



Mr. Kirby remarked that he had seen a similar nest to the one now 

 exhibited attaclied to a pod of maize. 



Mr. A. Sidney OUiff exhibited a small coleopterous larva, said to be one 

 of the StdjiJiylinidce, and possibly that of a species of I'hiluiithus or Quedius, 

 which was found by the Rev. Robert Dunn, of Cricklade, engaged in a 

 vigorous encounter witli a large earthworm. The specimen was the one to 



