﻿Schreibers, 
  as 
  remarkable 
  for 
  its 
  curved 
  hind-tibiae 
  approximatiug 
  to 
  the 
  curious, 
  

   curved, 
  sub-fossorial 
  hind-tibis 
  of 
  the 
  allied 
  genus 
  Scaptocarenum 
  from 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  

   a 
  formation 
  of 
  these 
  members 
  not 
  otherwise 
  known 
  among 
  the 
  Carabidae. 
  He 
  also 
  

   noticed 
  Enigma 
  iongipenne 
  as 
  an 
  insect 
  possessing 
  remarkable 
  characters. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Bond 
  exhibited 
  a 
  pupa 
  of 
  Sphinx 
  Ligustri, 
  with 
  the 
  sheath 
  of 
  the 
  spiral 
  tongue 
  

   distinctly 
  bifurcate. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Augustus 
  Sheppard 
  exhibited 
  a 
  remarkably 
  pale 
  specimen 
  of 
  Arge 
  Galathea 
  ? 
  

  

  Mr. 
  S. 
  Stevens 
  exhibited 
  beautiful 
  specimens 
  of 
  Ornithoptera 
  Priamus 
  from 
  Cape 
  

   York, 
  Australia; 
  of 
  Cocytia 
  D'Urvillei 
  from 
  New 
  Guinea; 
  Carabus 
  Lafussei 
  from 
  

   Shanghae; 
  and 
  Xylotrupes 
  dichotoraus 
  from 
  the 
  North 
  of 
  China, 
  near 
  Pekin. 
  He 
  

   also 
  exhibited 
  Epicalia 
  Antiochus 
  and 
  Myscelia 
  Medea, 
  which 
  Mr. 
  Bates 
  had 
  ob- 
  

   served 
  to 
  be 
  sexes 
  of 
  one 
  species 
  ; 
  a 
  thing 
  never 
  hitherto 
  suspected, 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  

   difference 
  of 
  colour 
  and 
  marking. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  observed 
  that 
  when 
  informed 
  of 
  this 
  discovery 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Bates, 
  he 
  had 
  

   examined 
  the 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  referred 
  to 
  these 
  genera, 
  and 
  found 
  

   the 
  Epicalias 
  to 
  be 
  males 
  and 
  the 
  Myscelia3 
  to 
  be 
  females. 
  The 
  genus 
  Catonephile 
  of 
  

   Doubleday 
  would 
  likewise 
  have 
  to 
  be 
  abolished, 
  the 
  sj)ecies 
  therein 
  being 
  mostly 
  refer- 
  

   rible 
  to 
  Epicalia. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  exhibited 
  the 
  larva 
  of 
  a 
  Dipterous 
  insect 
  voided 
  by 
  a 
  gentleman 
  who 
  

   had 
  been 
  for 
  a 
  long 
  time 
  in 
  ill 
  health. 
  It 
  was 
  white, 
  naked, 
  and 
  attenuated, 
  and 
  dif- 
  

   fered 
  materially 
  from 
  the 
  larvae 
  expelled 
  from 
  a 
  human 
  body, 
  described 
  by 
  the 
  Rev. 
  

   Leonard 
  Jeuyns 
  in 
  this 
  Society's 
  ' 
  Transactions 
  ' 
  (vol. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  154), 
  as 
  they 
  had 
  on 
  each 
  

   segment 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  minute, 
  soft 
  processes, 
  fringed 
  with 
  bristles, 
  which, 
  when 
  viewed 
  in 
  

   the 
  aggregate, 
  formed 
  a 
  double 
  longitudinal 
  series 
  down 
  the 
  back. 
  In 
  that 
  instance, 
  

   also, 
  the 
  larva 
  were 
  expelled 
  in 
  large 
  quantities, 
  whereas 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  but 
  few 
  had 
  

   been 
  observed. 
  Some 
  medical 
  gentlemen 
  doubted 
  if 
  these 
  were 
  really 
  insect 
  larvae 
  ; 
  

   but 
  all 
  the 
  members 
  present 
  who 
  examined 
  the 
  specimen 
  sent, 
  agreed 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  

   Dipterous 
  larva, 
  belonging 
  probably 
  to 
  the 
  Muscidae. 
  Some 
  discussion 
  arose 
  on 
  the 
  

   question 
  how 
  insect 
  larvae 
  came 
  into 
  human 
  bodies 
  ; 
  the 
  prevalent 
  opinion 
  seemed 
  to 
  

   be 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  introduced 
  with 
  food 
  : 
  in 
  illustration 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  President 
  men- 
  

   tioned 
  that 
  at 
  the 
  Jardin 
  des 
  Plantes 
  in 
  Paris, 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  serpents 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  fed 
  

   on 
  flies, 
  of 
  which 
  they 
  were 
  very 
  fond, 
  after 
  a 
  few 
  weeks 
  became 
  greatly 
  swollen, 
  and 
  

   shortly 
  died, 
  when 
  it 
  was 
  found 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  full 
  of 
  Dipterous 
  larvae, 
  which 
  had 
  

   doubtless 
  hatched 
  from 
  fertile 
  eggs 
  in 
  the 
  flies 
  on 
  which 
  they 
  fed, 
  and 
  had 
  caused 
  

   their 
  death. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  exhibited 
  pieces 
  of 
  a 
  stem 
  of 
  Solanura 
  Dulcamara, 
  gathered 
  a 
  few 
  

   days 
  since, 
  in 
  which 
  larvae 
  of 
  Gelechia 
  costella 
  were 
  hybernaling. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Adam 
  While 
  exhibited 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  a 
  Belostoma, 
  an 
  aquatic 
  Hemipterous 
  

   insect, 
  taken 
  on 
  board 
  ship 
  near 
  Bassorah, 
  in 
  the 
  Persian 
  Gulf: 
  many 
  more 
  were 
  re- 
  

   ported 
  by 
  the 
  captain 
  to 
  have 
  fallen 
  on 
  the 
  vessel 
  from 
  a 
  "cloud'' 
  of 
  them 
  flying 
  over. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Saunders 
  had 
  often 
  seen 
  Belostomas 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  together, 
  flying 
  about 
  in 
  the 
  

   evening, 
  near 
  Calcutta 
  ; 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  something 
  new 
  to 
  hear 
  of 
  them 
  in 
  such 
  quantities, 
  

   and 
  at 
  sea. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  exhibited 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Monochamus 
  Sartor, 
  taken 
  last 
  year 
  on 
  the 
  

   banks 
  of 
  the 
  llegent's 
  Canal 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Coccinella 
  Reppensis, 
  taken 
  by 
  him- 
  

   self 
  last 
  July, 
  crawling 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  in 
  the 
  hilly 
  field, 
  Headley-lane, 
  near 
  Mickleham. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  S. 
  Stevens 
  mentioned 
  that 
  again 
  for 
  the 
  third 
  season 
  he 
  had 
  reared 
  Dryophila 
  

   Anobioidcs 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  dry 
  stump 
  of 
  broom 
  ; 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Smith 
  remarked 
  that 
  for 
  

  

  