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No. 2 ; by the Society. — ' Stettiner Entoraologische Zeitung,' xxxiv, Nos. 
1 —3 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 
Election of Members. 
Noah Greening, Esq., of Warrington, a Subscriber to the Society, was 
balloted for and elected an Ordinary Member, and Edward Charles Buxton, 
Esq., of Daresbury Hall, Warrington, was elected a Subscriber to the 
Society. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. Howard Vaughan exhibited a box containing about two hundred 
specimens of Japanese Lepidoptera, collected near Yokohama by Mr. Henry 
Pryer ; many of the species being apparently new. Some also were re- 
markable as bearing a close resemblance to British species. Mr. Moore 
noticed a strong Indian character in several of the insects. 
The President remarked that Mr. Higgins had shown him a specimen of 
a Cremastocheilus from Japan, which was identical with a species that had 
been taken by Mr. Lord on the West coast of North America. 
Mr. F. Smith exhibited some insects bearing a most remarkable re- 
remblauce to each other, althougli belonging to different orders. Thus, 
Euglossa dimidiata and another Euglossa, a Genus of Apidse, bore a striking 
resemblance to two species of the Dipterous family Asilidse, namely, 
Dasyllis haemorrhoa and Mallophoi'a tibialis, all from South America. 
Also, Abispa splendida, one of the Vespidse, and an insect of the Dipterous 
genus Lachites(?j, both from New Holland. Also, a bee of the genus 
Megachile, and one of the Asilidoe, Mallophora calida, Wied., from South 
America. With regard to the two last-mentioned insects, Mr. Smith noticed 
that the Asilus not only resembled the bee in its general appearance, but 
that also it was furnished on the under side of the abdomen with a brush 
similar to the pollen-brush of Megachile ; although it was not apparent for 
what purpose the insect required it. 
The President remarked that when he was at Casa Brucciata, near 
Ancona, he observed several insects of the genus Osmia extracting the black 
pollen from poppies ; and on the sandy shore he noticed the same insects 
collecting the sand on their ventral brushes. He therefore concluded that 
the brushes were used, not only for collecting the pollen, but also for 
carrying the grains of sand to their nests, which he observed them in the 
act of constructing on walls. 
Mr. Champion exhibited specimens of Bagous brevis, Schaum ; taken in 
this country by Dr. Power, although not hitherto observed in Britain. 
Mr. MiiUer directed attention to an article in the last number of the 
' Petites Nouvelles,' explaining a method of obtaining silk from cocoons 
which had been eaten through by the insects ; and that the silk so obtained 
