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the pupa, was presented to it. If hungry, it woald seize and 

 devour the fly after pulling off wings and legs. He remarked that 

 the larva had no posterior aperture, and that the waste of the 

 body was stored for two years or more, to be deposited by the 

 imago shortly after emergence, much in the same way as was 

 done by bees and internal parasites. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited the orthopteron, Thoninotrizon 

 cinereiis ; a specimen of Forficnla aurlcitlaria var. forcipata from 

 Dartford ; and Ves]ia aermanica. On behalf of Mr. Carr he 

 exhibited the rare coleopteron, Trichius fasviatits, from Mid-Wales. 



Mr. E. Adkin exhibited a specimen of Ai/rotis exdamationis, that 

 was taken in his garden at Lewisham on the occasion of the 

 Entomological Club Meeting there on June 17th last; also another 

 of the same species taken at the same place a few days later, in 

 which the reniform and orbicular stigmata were united. 



Mr. West, of Ashtead, referred to a cat, which appeared to have 

 an affection of the eye-lid, which did not yield to bathing with 

 water. After a time an object gradually worked out, and, on 

 ■examination under the microscope, was found to be the awn of 

 barley, which he exhibited. 



Mr. Dunster exhibited CUdias edasa, from Weymouth and Lyme 

 Regis ; l'i/ra>iicis atalanta, P. cardni, and Vanessa io, from 

 Crewkerne ; together with Mesoleuca ocellata, Ania emanjinaia, 

 Epione apiciaria, etc., from the same locality. 



Mr. Carr exhibited the eggs of Boannia t/eiiniiayia, which were 

 laid in a chip box and thrust in between the eggs of one of the 

 " thorns," which had previously oviposited in the box. 



Mr. Turner exhibited specimens of the "rose" beetle {Cetonia 

 aurata), found in numbers on a thistle at Cortina d'Ampezzo; 

 specimens of Cassida equestris, bred from larvis and pupae found 

 on the shores of Konig See, N. Tyrol, on a yellow- flowered 

 Salvia, and the beautiful pedicelled nest of a wasp {i'olistes c/allica), 

 found on a wall in the valley leading to Pieve di Cadore from 

 Cortina. 



Mr. Sich remarked on the occurrence of a Tineid, probably 

 Tineola hiselUella, which he had observed in some numbers in the 

 • cage of the Indian rat-snakes at the Zoological Gardens. 



Mr. E. Step read the following note: — 



" I wish to put on record a small contribution to the mass of 

 evidence already accumulated, which exhibits the wasp as an 

 intelligent insect. In my garden is a flourishing colony of Vespa 

 germanica, and for a nesting hall they have excavated into a bank 



