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bookseller of the Imperial Academy, explaining that the reason why the work had not 

 been supplied when ordered by Mr. Hewitson was, that the only order he had received 

 was for a coloured copy; he had never received any order from England for an 

 uncoloured copy. 



Sir John Lubbock communicated a letter from Dr. Signoret, dated Paris, 

 January 4, 1868, of which the following is a translation : — 



"At the Meetings of the 5th and 19lh of November, 1866 (Proc, Ent. Soc. 1866, 

 pp. xxxii. xxxvi.), mention was made of the Aphis which lives in the galls of the elm, 

 and it was spoken of as an object almost unknown at the present day, Geoffrey, 

 Eeaumur, De Geer and Et. Geoffroy (1764) being the only authors cited as having 

 treated of this insect. It would be unfortunate for Hemipterology if that branch of 

 Natural History had since that time fallen into oblivion, but it is not so, and to begiu 

 with I have only to cite Mr. Francis Walker, who speaks of it in his List of 

 Homopterous Insects, p. 1049, and who cites some fifteen authors, all of whom describe 

 it more or less at length ; to whom I may add Blot (Mem. Soc. Linn, de Caen, 1824), 

 Hartig (Germar's Zeitsch. 1841), C. L. Koch (Die Pflanzenlause, 1857), and more 

 recently, Passerini (Aphididae Italicae, Archiv. ZooL de Modene, 1863). 



"At the Meeting of the 5th of November (Proc. Ent. Soc, 1866, p. xxxii.) Mr. 

 Pascoe exhibited two females of a Coccus living under the leaves of the Eucalyptus. 

 Mr. Schrader has published an excellent paper with three plates in the first volume 

 of the Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales, 1863, where 

 Mr. Pascoe will certainly find his species of Coccus. 



" As 1 have occupied myself for several years with Cochineal insects in general, and 

 am endeavouring to bring together all the existing material on that subject, I should 

 receive with pleasure any papers, observations or insects which might be communicated 

 to me. As regards the insects, I should especially like to have the males, which are 

 extremely difficult to meet with, and I would ask those who find any to be kind 

 enough to place them in tubes with some weak spirit of wine, for when they are dried 

 it is impossible to make drawings of them. I should also be glad of information 

 respecting the plants on which they live, which also may be inserted in the tubes." 



Mr. F. Smith thought that Dr. Signoret had misunderstood his remarks about the 

 galls of the elm ; the fact was that the galls in question had never been noticed iu 

 this country before 1866. Mr. M'Lachlan added that he had referred to Geoffroy, 

 Reaumur and De Geer, not as being the only authors who had described the gall, 

 but merely to show that, though new to this country, it had in fact been well known 

 on the Continent for more than a century. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a new species of Oryssus, from the Gold Coast, the body 

 of which was of a splendid metallic deep emerald-green, a somewhat uncommon 

 occurrence among the Tenthredinida;. Also specimens of Brazilian Hymenoptera and 

 Diptera, whose economy was described in the paper mentioned below. 



The Secretary exhibited a spider sent by Lord Cawdor, from Stackpole Court, 

 Pembroke, which was pronounced by Mr. Blackwall to be a female of Pholcus 

 phalangioides (see 'Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland,' part 2, p. 208), a species 

 which frequents the interior of old buildings in the South of England: having been 

 preserved iu the dry state, the abdomen had shrunk greatly, and this circumstance had 



