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  the 
  Old 
  World 
  structurally 
  different 
  from 
  Cryptoceras, 
  and 
  Onychognathus 
  for 
  a 
  sin- 
  

   gle 
  species 
  from 
  New 
  Zealand 
  remarkable 
  for 
  having 
  only 
  five 
  joints 
  in 
  the 
  antennae. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Spence 
  presented 
  for 
  the 
  signatures 
  of 
  the 
  members, 
  a 
  petition 
  to 
  the 
  Govern- 
  

   ment, 
  originated 
  by 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society, 
  praying 
  that 
  it 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  Societies 
  for 
  the 
  

   study 
  and 
  advancement 
  of 
  natural 
  knowledge, 
  should 
  be 
  provided 
  by 
  the 
  State 
  with 
  

   apartments 
  in 
  juxta-pnsitiou 
  ; 
  showing 
  the 
  disadvantages 
  under 
  which 
  such 
  Societies, 
  

   and, 
  through 
  them, 
  science, 
  at 
  present 
  laboured, 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  their 
  disconnected 
  lo- 
  

   cations, 
  and 
  having 
  severally 
  to 
  support 
  heavy 
  expenses 
  for 
  house-rent 
  and 
  other 
  ne- 
  

   cessary 
  charges. 
  

  

  Part 
  4, 
  Vol. 
  II., 
  n. 
  s., 
  of 
  the 
  Society's 
  ' 
  Transactions,' 
  was 
  announced 
  as 
  ready. 
  

  

  April 
  4, 
  1853. 
  

  

  Edward 
  Newman, 
  Esq., 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  donations 
  were 
  announced, 
  and 
  thanks 
  ordered 
  to 
  be 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  ' 
  

   donors 
  : 
  — 
  The 
  ' 
  Zoologist 
  ' 
  fur 
  April 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  ' 
  Athenaeum 
  ' 
  for 
  March 
  ; 
  

   by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  'Literary 
  Gazette 
  ' 
  for 
  March 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  'Journal 
  

   of 
  the 
  Society 
  of 
  Arts;' 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  ' 
  On 
  two 
  new 
  Subgenera 
  of 
  Calanidae,' 
  by 
  

   John 
  Lubbock, 
  Esq., 
  F.Z.S., 
  &c. 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Author. 
  Hewitson's 
  ' 
  Exotic 
  Butterflies,' 
  

   part 
  6 
  ; 
  by 
  W. 
  Wilson 
  Saunders, 
  Esq. 
  ' 
  Descriptions 
  des 
  trois 
  Coleopteres 
  : 
  ' 
  ' 
  De- 
  

   scriptions 
  des 
  Coleopteres 
  nouveaux: 
  ' 
  ' 
  Rappel 
  des 
  Coleopteres 
  decrits 
  par 
  Palisot 
  et 
  

   Beauvais: 
  ' 
  all 
  by 
  M. 
  A. 
  Chevrolat, 
  and 
  presented 
  by 
  the 
  Author. 
  Specimens 
  of 
  Co- 
  

   leopterous 
  larvae 
  with 
  a 
  Spha^ria 
  attached 
  ; 
  by 
  T. 
  J. 
  Stevens, 
  Esq., 
  Bogota. 
  

  

  T. 
  H. 
  Langcake, 
  Esq., 
  Beeston, 
  near 
  Leeds, 
  and 
  F. 
  Bates, 
  Esq., 
  Leicester, 
  were 
  

   elected 
  Subscribers 
  to 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  T. 
  Desvignes 
  exhibited 
  a 
  fine 
  Chcerocampa 
  Celerio, 
  taken 
  by 
  Thomas 
  Thomp- 
  

   son, 
  Esq., 
  at 
  Welton, 
  near 
  Brough, 
  Yorkshire; 
  also 
  a 
  new 
  British 
  bee, 
  — 
  Anthidium 
  

   maculatum, 
  taken 
  in 
  Scotland 
  by 
  E. 
  C. 
  Buxton, 
  Esq. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  F. 
  Smith 
  remarked 
  that 
  this 
  bee 
  was 
  common 
  in 
  the 
  South 
  of 
  Europe 
  ; 
  and 
  

   it 
  was 
  curious 
  and 
  interesting, 
  if 
  no 
  mistake 
  had 
  occurred, 
  to 
  find 
  it 
  first 
  captured 
  in 
  

   Britain 
  so 
  far 
  North 
  as 
  Scotland. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Bond 
  exhibited 
  a 
  Steropus 
  madidus, 
  with 
  a 
  Filaria 
  about 
  6 
  inches 
  long 
  pro- 
  

   truding 
  from 
  the 
  abdomen 
  ; 
  also 
  a 
  Filaria, 
  15 
  inches 
  in 
  length, 
  extracted 
  from 
  another 
  

   specimen 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  species 
  of 
  beetle. 
  j 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  exhibited 
  some 
  young 
  larvte 
  of 
  a 
  Solenobia, 
  produced 
  from 
  eggs 
  laid 
  

   by 
  females 
  without 
  male 
  intercourse. 
  Last 
  July, 
  at 
  Charlton, 
  he 
  found 
  larvae 
  moving 
  

   about 
  on 
  the 
  stem 
  of 
  a 
  poplar 
  tree 
  ; 
  he 
  put 
  some 
  into 
  a 
  box 
  with 
  a 
  piece 
  of 
  the 
  bark, 
  

   and 
  forgot 
  them 
  until 
  recently, 
  when 
  he 
  found 
  they 
  had 
  produced 
  apterous 
  females 
  

   only, 
  and 
  from 
  them 
  had 
  been 
  developed 
  the 
  larva? 
  now 
  exhibited, 
  which 
  had 
  died 
  in 
  

   the 
  box 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  born. 
  

  

  