capture, but on placing them in a good-sized glass-topped box, and supplying 

 the bee with a few fresh flowers, the Stylops had emerged early the 

 following morning. 



The President remarked that he had once found a large number of bees 

 in the afternoon at dusk, some of which contained male Stylops, but on that 

 occasion the morning had been wet and dull, and therefore the bees had 

 probably only just made their appearance. Some further discussion ensued, 

 during which the President stated that during flight the males do not move 

 the rudimentary anterior wings (or " elytra"). 



Some further remarks were communicated by Mr. Gooch, of Natal, 

 respecting the ravages of a Longicorn beetle in the coff'ee plantations there, 

 which gave rise to a discussion as to whether the larvae of Longicorn beetles 

 attack healthy wood or not, a remark having been made by Mr, Newman 

 in the ' Entomologist ' that, according to his experience of fifty years, he 

 bad never found the larvae of Longicorn beetles in decayed wood, or those 

 of Lamellicorn beetles in sound wood. Mr. M'Lachlan stated that from his 

 own observations, healthy wood wsls not attacked by British species of the 

 family, though there were exceptions, such as Saperda j^opulnea. Mr. 

 Smith remarked that he once attempted to sit upon a rail which broke 

 under him, when it was found to be infested with Rhagium bifasciatum, and 

 was completely rotten ; and the President had experienced the same thing 

 in Turkey with regard to a chair which was destroyed by Longicorn larvae. 

 Mr. Janson thought that the larvae of Longicorus do not attack wood, rotten 

 from other causes ; but Mr. M'Lachlan understood Mr. Newman's observa- 

 tion to refer to living and healthy trees. 



Papers read. 



The following papers were communicated, viz. : — 



" Descriptions of Tenthredinidae, Ichneumonidae, Chrysididae and For- 

 micidae, from Japan." By Frederick Smith. 



"Further Descriptions of Lucanoid Coleoptera." By Major F. J. Sidney 

 Parry, F.L.S. 



May 4, 1874. 



Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 



donors: — 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' no. 151; presented by the 



Society. • Verhandlungen der k. k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in 



Wien,' xiii. band ; by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Linnean Society of 



