Stene ferruginea and of a Lsemophloeus, the predatory larva of the latter being 

 the natural enemy of the Calandra. 



Prof. Westwood observed that no description of the larva of Calandra granaiia 

 had been pubhshed : it was comparatively a fatter and shorter larva than 

 Balaninus, distinguished from the usual form of Curculionidous larvae by 

 having two recurved points or hooks at the extremity of the body, and changed 

 to the pupa within the grain. 



Mr. M'Lachlan mentioned that he had frequently noticed the walls of 

 London granaries covered on the outside with Tinea granella. Mr. J. J. Weir 

 corroborated this, and added that the London sparrows might be seen to rise at 

 and catch the moths when the latter were disturbed ; in fact, the sparrow was 

 acquiring the habits of the flycatcher. 



Mr. Howard Vaughan exhibited numerous specimens of Dianthcecia carpo- 

 phaga, showing great variation in colour, all bred from larvse found near Croydon 

 in 1868. 



Mr. J. J. Weir, with reference to Mr. Butler's suggestion of the identity of 

 Argynnis Adippe and Niobe, exhibited four specimens which had been sent to 

 him from St. Petersburg, one as the typical form of Adippe and another as its 

 variety Cledoxa, and one as the typical form of Niobe and another as its variety 

 Eris : the typical form of each had silvery spots on the under side, and these 

 were absent both from Cledoxa and Eris ; but notwithstanding this parallelism 

 of variation, there was no greater approximation to one another in the two 

 varieties than there was in the two typical forms. Mr. Albert Miiller remarked, 

 however, that what was regarded in Switzerland as the typical form of A. Niobe 

 did not possess the silvery spots on the under side. 



Mr. Albert Miiller (in reference to the note in Proc. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. xxv., 

 and ' Zoologist,' 1870, p. 9027) read the following extract from a letter received 

 from Mr. H. F. Bassett, of Waterbury, U. S. A., on the odour of Cynipidse : — 



" You speak of the peculiar odour of certain species of European gall-flies. 

 A similar odour is strongly apparent in three sub-apterous species of Cynips 

 that I have reared from the galls, namely, C. pezomachoides, Osten-Sacken, 

 C. forticornis, Walsh, and C. hirta, Bassett; and I find that Dr. Fitch, in the 

 description of his Philonix* fulvicollis, mentions that it ' exhales a perceptible 



* Query, Pliilonips, not Philonix, which is a hybrid, half Greek, half Latin : the 

 author himself gives the derivation, " ^lAof , a lover ; W\J/, snow." Dr. Fitch writes the 

 name of the family Cyniphidm, in lieu of Cynipidse, probably on the hypothesis that 

 Cynips is deiived from vi-^; but query, whether snow enters into the composition of 

 Cynips : I always supposed it was a compound of l^, in which case Cynips, gen. Cynipis, 

 fam. Cynipidse, are correct. I may add that Dr. Fitch has altered Prof. Westwood's 

 Biorhiza into Biarhiza. The latter change is designedly made, for (5th Report, p. 1) the 

 author says, " I suppose this name to be derived, not from ^log. life, as its orthography 

 would indicate, but from fJia, injury, and pi^a, a root, and if so it should be written 

 Biarhiza, instead of as we find it in books." Upon this I may remark that the name may 



