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named in a nest of small reddish ants. I hope to have further opportunities 

 of observing the ways of the Paussidse." 



Prof. Westwood observed that the sexual differences of the Paussidse had 

 not been recorded ; and any information on this point would be very welcome. 



Papers read. 



The following papers were read : — " A Revised Catalogue of the Lucanoid 

 Coleoptera ; with Remarks on the Nomenclature, and Descriptions of New 

 Species " (conclusion) ; by Major Parry. 



" On the Species of Charaxes described in the ' Reise der Novara'; with 

 Descriptions of two New Species " ; by Mr. A. G. Butler. 



Catalogue of the Neuroptera of the British Isles. 

 Mr. M'Lachlan presented the MS. of " A Catalogue of the Neuroptera of the 

 British Isles," the first instalment of the proposed Catalogue of indigenous 

 insects ; and on so doing, he remarked that the term Neuroptera had been 

 taken in the Linnean sense, as including the three sub-orders or groups known 

 as Pseudo-Neuroptera, Neuroptera-Planipennia and Trichoptera. Of the 

 Pseudo-Neuroptera, the Catalogue of the family Psochidae was in accordance 

 with Mr. M'Lachlan 's own Monograph of the British species, published in 

 1867 in the third volume of the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' the 

 synonymy after his own investigations ; the Perlidae had not been very recently 

 revised, and were in an unsatisfactory state, but the Catalogue had been worked 

 out from an examination of such materials as were accessible to the compiler ; 

 the family Ephemeridae had been entirely furnished by the Rev. A. E. Eaton ; 

 and the Odonata, including six families, the Libellulidse, Coi'duliidae, Gomphidae, 

 ^schnidse, Calopterygidse and Agrionidse, had been compiled from the works 

 of De Selys Longchamps and Hagen, adopting, however, almost in its entirety, 

 the division of the old genus Libellula originally proposed by Newman. The 

 Planipennia and Trichoptera were catalogued in accordance with Mr. 

 M'Lachlan 's Monographs of the British Species published in the Transactions 

 of this Society, the Planipennia in the Transactions for 1868, and the Trichop- 

 tera in 1865 in the fifth volume of the third series, with such additions and 

 corrections in each case as subsequent investigations had rendered necessary. 



21 February, 1870. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors : — 

 Additions to the Tenebrionidae of Australia,' by F. P. Pascoe : ' Catalogus 



