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Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. F. Smith brought for exhibition a box of Indian Hymenoptera 
collected by Mr. Rothney at Nuddea, in the district of Minchiiidipore, 
about eighty miles from Calcutta. It comprised about 200 specimens 
of Fossores, 100 Apidie, and 230 Formicidse. Of the Fossores there were, 
apparently, only two undescribed species out of about forty, and the same 
with the Apidfe ; but amongst the species of Formicidae there were eight or 
ten which appeared to be undescribed. They were all in extremely fine 
condition ; the most interesting species in the collection being a new Astata, 
and four or five beautiful species of the genus Nomia among the bees. 
Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited the quadrangular case of the larva of a 
Trichopterous insect, together with the larva itself, preserved in glycerine. 
These had been placed in his hands by the Rev. A. E. Eaton, who found 
them in the Dove, a swiftly running stream in Derbyshire. He supposed 
it to pertain to Brachycentrus siibnubilus, as the larvae of that species were 
now known to manufacture quadrangular cases. Mr. Eaton, however, 
stated that he was not quite satisfied that the case and larva found by him 
were actually those of Brachycentrus, for he had never seen that genus in 
the part of the Dove in which he found them, though it occurred lower 
down the stream. 
Mr. Champion exhibited specimens of a large species of Pulex found by 
Mr. F. Walker in a mouse's nest in the Isle of Sheppy. 
Mr. Bird exhibited a specimen of Cerastis erythrocephalus, taken on the 
Q8th of October last at Darenth Wood. 
!Mr. Meldola exhibited a living specimen of a myriapod of the genus 
Spirobolus, which had been sent to him from San Francisco. Also eggs of 
a leaf insect (Phy Ilium pulchrifolium) from Java. He also shewed a 
specimen of a Noctua impaled on a thorn, supposed to have been done by a 
shrike. Mr. Weir was inclined to think that, in this case, the insect was so 
impaled ; but he believed that insects were frequently impaled by other 
means. 
Mr. Pascoe called attention to a remark made by Mr. Walker in the 
February part of the ' Entomologist,' to the effect that the fireflies [Lucciola 
Italica), seen in abundance in Italy, had probably entered that country from 
the East, and were hindered by the Maritime Alps from occupying the 
Mediterranean coast of France. He (Mr. Pascoe) had seen the insect in 
abundance in France between Cannes and the Var, and was desirous of 
ascertaining if any entomologist had noticed it further westward in France. 
Mr. Albert Miiller communicated the following notes regarding the 
originators of the pouch-galls on cinnamon : — 
"On the 4th of March, 1872, I exhibited before the Society some 
specimens of an open pouch-gall on the leaves of Cinnamomum nitidum, 
