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colour and deposited singly, the latter excluded by a captured female in a 
gelatinous yellowish mass. 
Prof. Westwood exhibited numerous centuries of the true Formica her- 
culeana, Linné, an ant not hitherto considered as British, and stated the 
circumstances under which they were found, as follows :—It appeared that, 
very recently, a labouring man had brought to a colleague of his, at Oxford, 
several birds which he said he had shot in Wytham Wood, on the Earl of 
Abingdon’s estate, and these were purchased for the insignificant sum of 
two shillings. One of these birds was a great black woodpecker (Picus 
martius), which had been considered a very doubtful British species. Upon 
dissection the proventriculus of-this bird was found to be crammed with the 
ant in question, the specimens being in perfect condition, with the 
wings entire, and none had passed into the gizzard. Taking all these facts 
into consideration with the freshness of the bird itself, Prof. Westwood 
could come to no other conclusion than that the man’s account of how he 
became possessed of the bird was true, and hence that the ant was a British 
species. 
Mr. Miiller stated that he had frequently found this ant in Switzerland, 
in winter, in pine-stumps a foot or two in height; and Mr. Smith made 
some remarks on Nylander’s account of its habits. 
Mr. Jenner Weir utterly disbelieved in Picus martius having ever occurred 
in Britain in a wild state, an opinion shared by several of the Members 
present. 
Prof. Westwood further exhibited two males of Papilio Crino from Ceylon. 
In one of these the first and second branches of the median vein were 
coated with brown hairs, a peculiarity which was the rule in some species of 
Papilio, but which had not been hitherto observed in P. Crino. ‘The other 
example had these veins naked, as is usual in the species. He was not able 
to ascertain if both specimens were from exactly the same locality. 
The Secretary of the Haggerston Entomological Society invited the 
Members to attend their annual exhibition of insects on the 23rd and 24th 
of November. 
Papers read, éc. 
Baron Chaudoir communicated the following notes on the specific value 
of Eurygnathus parallelus, Chaudoir :— 
“In the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1871, 
p- 215, Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston contests the right of the insect I described 
under the name of Eurygnathus parallelus (Guérin’s Rey. et Mag. de Zool. 
1869, p. 121) to constitute a species distinct from Latreillei. As he states 
my opinion to be ‘most unphilosophical,’ I feel myself compelled to say a 
few words on the subject. No one acquainted with both forms could doubt 
that the differences between parallelus and Latreillei, and which have been 
remarked and pointed out by the English author as well as by myself, are 
