have myself witnessed that certain water beetles, namely Dytiscus margi- 

 nalis and several species of Colymbetes, have dropped down on hothouse 

 frames protected by glass. They made this mistake by taking the glass to 

 be their native element ; theirs was an error of sight. Assuming that 

 insects injurious to fruit-trees often discern their positions by sight, it seems 

 worth while to offer the suggestion that the means which attracted the 

 water beetles might possibly be made use of for keeping away such insects 

 as avoid water, and which might possibly be scared away by any object 

 simulating that element." 



New Part of ' Transactions.'' 

 Part V. of the 'Transactions' for 1871, completing the volume, was on 

 the table. 



4 March, 1873. 

 Prof. J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors: — ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 131; presented by the 

 Society. ' Coleopterologische Hefte,' Heft VIII. ; by the Editor, Baron 

 E. V. Harold. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' for March; by 

 the Editors. ' The Zoologist,' for March; by the Editor. ' The Canadian 

 Entomologist,' vol. iv., No. i ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist,' 

 vol. v., and Nos 99 — 101, January — March ; by the Editor. 



By purchase : — Gemminger et de Harold, ' Catalogus Coleopterorum,' 

 tom. viii., pars. 1. Matthew's ' Trichopterygia illustrata et descripta.' 



Election of a Member. 

 Ernest Kaye, Esq., of Oakfield Road, Penge, was balloted for and elected 

 a Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, do. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited living examples of Argas reflexus, from 

 Canterbury Cathedral, of which he brought dried examples before the 

 meeting on the 5 th ultimo ; also another species of the same genus collected 

 by Dr. Livingstone in Central Africa, remarkable for the rounded tubercles 

 with which its surface is studded. This latter species, according to Dr. 

 Livingstone's observations, enters the feet of the natives, between the toes, 

 causing pain and inflammation. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited an apparently undescribed species of Phycita, 

 taken near Gravesend, bearing much external resemblance to certain species 



