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Mr. Wormald had seen something very similar at St. Albans on the 26th of August, 
when a swarm of small black ants presented the appearance of smoke issuing from the 
Abbey. 
Prof. Westwood directed attention to the remarkable form of Pteratomus, a 
Hymenopterous insect, as figured by Mr. Packard in his paper “ On the Humble Bees 
of New England and their Parasites;” the anterior wings were divided or cleft like 
those of a plume-moth (Pterophorus). 
New Part of ‘ Transactions.’ 
A new Part of the ‘Transactions’ (Tr. Ent. Soc., 3rd Series, vol. iii. Part 2), 
containing Mr. Pascoe’s “ Longicornia Malayana” (continuation), and being the third 
Part published during the present year, was on the table. 
October 2, 1865. 
F. P. Pascoe, Esq., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors: —‘ The 
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,’ 2nd Series, Vol. i. part 2; pre- 
sented by the Society. ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society, No. 77; by the Society. 
‘The Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales, Vol. i. part 3; 
by the Society. ‘ Hiibner (Jacob), Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge;’ by W. F. 
Kirby, Esq. ‘ Exotic Butterflies, Part 56; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ‘ Revision of 
the hitherto-kuown Species of the Genus Chionobas in North America, by Samuel H. 
Scudder; by the Author. ‘The Zoologist’ for October; by the Editor. ‘* The Ento- 
mologist’s Monthly Magazine’ for October; by the Editors. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited a female specimen of Sterrha sacraria captured by his 
brother near Brighton, on the 18th of July last. 
Mr. J. J. Weir exhibited three specimens of Xylina petrificata, one of which bore 
great resemblance in colour to X. semibrunnea. 
Mr. W. F. Evans exhibited two malformed specimens of Vanessa Atalanta; one of 
which, caught near Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1864, had the left antenna only half the 
length of the right, notwithstanding that it possessed the usual number of joints; the 
other, bred from the larva at Herne Bay, in August, 1865, had the wings on one side 
considerably larger than on the other. 
Dr. Alexander Wallace mentioned that a specimen of Argynnis Lathonia had been 
seen, but not captured, by Mr. Harwood, at Colchester, during the previous week, 
a rather unusual time for its appearance. 
Mr. Bond exhibited dried larve of Acherontia Atropos, Sphinx Ligustri and 
Macroglossa Stellatarum, preserved by Mr. Baker, of Cambridge, and retaining their 
colour as in life. 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a box of butterflies, collected in Labuan by Lieut. de 
Crespigny. 
