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in June, 1872, when several specimens of the former were found in die 
larva state. 
Mr. Champion exhibited a bred specimen of Pachnobia alpina from 
Braemar; also Harpalus quadripunctatus, Dej., from Braemar; Aniso- 
toma macropus, Eye, from Claremout ; A. pallens, Germ., from Deal; 
Liosomus troglodytes, Btje, from Faversham; and L. oblongulus. Boh., 
from Caterham. 
Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited living larvae of Brachycentrus subuubilus, 
which had been reared from the eggs. They fed upon ConfervfE, and the 
cases constructed by them were clearly quadrangular (though the angles were 
not prominent), and very diaphanous, so that the movements of the larvse 
could be discerned within. 
Mr. Bond exhibited fine specimens of Chile gigantellus from Horning 
Fen. 
Mr. Vaughan exhibited Pempelia Davisella reared from larvse, feeding in 
a web, upon shoots of Ulex. 
Mr. Stevens exhibited Leucania L-album and Cerastes erythrocephala, 
said to have been taken at Canterbury by Mr. G. Parry. Also Acontia 
Solaris taken near Dover in 1872, and a curious variety of Arge Galathea 
taken in 1871 on the South coast. 
Mr. Miiller remarked that at a meeting of the Scientific Committee of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, on the 12th instant. Dr. Masters had- exhibited 
some galls found at Wimbledon on the roots of Deodara. That gentleman 
had since submitted to him further specimens of this gall, which he had 
found to agree, in external and internal structure, with those of Biorhiza 
aptera, Fab., usually occurring on roots of oak. Mr. Miiller stated that 
he had since bred several specimens of Biorhiza aptera from these Deodara 
galls, and that he believed it to be the first instance where a true Cynips 
had been known to transfer its attacks from oak to a species of Conifer. 
Papers read, d'C. 
Mr. W. H. Miskin, of Queensland, communicated some remarks on 
Mynes Guerini, described by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the ' Transactions of 
the Entomological Society,' 1869, p. 77, but which he considered to be 
identical with Mynes Geoffroyi, Guer., from the Malayan islands. He 
alluded to a singular peculiarity in the economy of the insect, namely, that 
the larvae, which were gregarious in their habits, preserved their social 
instincts even to their assuming the pupa state — the chrysalides being 
found collected together in groups of three or four individuals, united at 
the tails. 
A paper was read entitled " Notes on the Habits of Papilio Merope, 
with a Description of its Larva and Pupa," by J. P. Mansel Weale, 
B.A. 
