IV 



Cordulines,' par M. Edm. de Selys-Longcliamps ; by the Author. 'De- 

 scription of a New Genus and Species of Papilionidaj from the South- 

 Eastern Himalayas,' by W. S. Atkinson, M.A,, F.L.S., &c. ; by the Author. 



Election of Members. 

 Edward A. Fitch, Esq., of Down Hall, Rayleigh; A. Dowsett, Esq., of 

 16, North-street, Brighton ; and James Wood-Mason, Esq., Curator of the 

 Indian Museum of Calcutta, were respectively balloted for and elected 

 Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. Weir exhibited a sample of wheat from Australia which was infested 

 with the weevil, Sitophilus oryzse, the cargo being so much damaged that 

 about two tons were utterly useless. The weevil was accompanied by Lsemo- 

 phloeus ferruginous. He also showed specimens of Sitophilus granarius 

 and Rhizopertha pusilla infesting wheat from Japan. 



Mr. Higgins exhibited a collection of Cetoniidae from the Philippine 

 Islands, which had been described by Dr. Mohnike. The collection^ com- 

 prised the following species, with others : — 



Phaedimus Jagori, Gerstdck., female ? Euglypta attenuata, Mohnike. 



Coryphocera simillima, Mohnike. „ biplagiata, „ 



,, purpurea, „ Cetonia papalis, „ 



Clinteria formosa, „ „ leucogramma, ,, 



Agestrata Semperi, ,, „ purpurisata, „ 



Macronota propinqua, „ „ Boholica, „ 



Glycyphana pulcherrima, „ „ tenuicollis, „ 



Mr. Higgins was of opinion that unless the male of Phaedimus Jagori 

 differed from the male of P. Cumiugi, then the so-called female was only a 

 var. of P. Cumingi. He also thought that thirty-five or thirty-six out of 

 the forty-two species would in all probability stand good, but that the others 

 would prove to be simply varieties of previously known species. He con- 

 sidered the figures in Mohnike 's ' Cetonideu der Philippinischen Inseln' 

 were so bad as to be unrecognisable, they being wrong in colour and 

 markings. 



Mr. Higgins also exhibited specimens of Diaphonia Digglesii, 0. Janson, 

 and Schizorrhina palmata, Schaum, fi'om Australia. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited (1) a hermaphrodite ant, Myrmica laevinodis, 

 captured by Mr. J. Chappel, at Dunham Park, Cheshire: this insect is 

 figured and described in the ' Entomologist's Annual for 1874 ; ' it combines 

 characters of male, female and worker. (2) Specimens of Coluocera Attse, 

 Kraatz, described in ' Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1858,' found 

 by Mr. J. Traherne Moggridge, at Mentone, in the seed-magazines of 



