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common mole, I observed no less than seven individuals enter these burrows, where 
each of course had begun to form a nest within a few yards of me; and yesterday 
(28th April) on examining a portion of the cavities or chambers I had recently formed, 
I found that as many as thirty-five of them had become tenanted. There were nests 
of all the four species most generally distributed, Vespa Germanica, V. vulgaris, V. rufa 
and V. sylvestris; while all around might be seen individuals still in search of eligible 
building sites.” 
The President exhibited some young dog-ticks, quite recently hatched from eggs 
laid in May by the identical female Ixodes which he had taken away from the 
February Meeting of the Society (ante, p. 82), and which he had mentioned at the 
March Meeting (ante, p. 85) as having been re-captured when attempting to escape 
after having been gummed down to a card for a fortnight. 
New Part of ‘ Transactions, 
The first Part of Trans. Ent. Soc., Third Series, vol. iv., containing the commence- 
ment of Mr. J. S. Baly’s Revision of the Malayan Phytophaga, was on the table. 
August 7, 1865. 
F. P. Pascoe, Esq., President, in the chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:— 
‘Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol. xiv. Nos. 73—76; presented by the Society. 
‘Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koéniglichen Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in 
Wien,’ Vol. xiv.; by the Society. ‘Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon,’ 
Nouvelle Serie, Tome x.; by the Society. ‘Annales des Sciences Physique et 
d’ Histoire Naturelle, d’ Agriculture et d’Industrie, publi¢es par la Société Imperiale 
d’ Agriculture, &c., de Lyon, 8¢ Serie, Tome vii.; by the Society. ‘ Ueber einige 
Pflanzenverwuster, ‘ Entomologische Fragmente,’ ‘ Zoologische Miscellen, by Georg 
Ritter von Frauenfeld; by the Author. ‘Cecidomyia destructor, Say, Wezengall- 
miucke oder Weizenverwuster, ‘ Ueber eine bisher wenig beobachtete Getreidemotte 
Tinea pyrophagella, Kllr”; by Prof. Haberlandt; by the Author. ‘ Ueber Getreide- 
verwuster;’ by the Author, Gust. Ad. Kiinstler. ‘The Zoologist’ for August; by the 
Editor. ‘The Entomologists Monthly Magazine’ for August; by the Editors. 
The addition, by purchase, was also announced of C, G. Thomson’s ‘ Skandinaviens 
Coleoptera,’ Vol. 7, Part 1. 
Election of Members. , 
The Rev. Joseph Greene and Messrs. H.S. Gorham, H. Blake-Knox and Thomas 
Parry, were elected Members; and Mr. W. Rogers was elected an Annual Sub- 
scriber. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited one living and numerous dead specimens of the ant-lion 
(Myrmeleon formicarius), together with the pupa-cases, and the larva and pupa in 
spirits; he had brought the larve from Fontainebleau in August, 1864, and fed them | 
on house-flies; they remained torpid fur about five months during the winter, | 
