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M'Lachlan, F.L.S., &c, part 1; by the Author. 'L'AbeiUe,' livr. 20— 

 22; by the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for 

 December ; by the Editors. ' Newman's Entomologist ' and ' The Zoologist ' 

 for December; by the Editor. 'Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxonieusis,' 

 parts 3, 4; by the Author, Prof. Westwood. 'Lettre concernant des 

 calculs trouves dans les canaux biliains d'un Cerf-volant femelle {Lucanus 

 capreolus): par M. V. Audouin ; ' Coleotteri della SiciHa raccolti e possedati 

 da Baldissare Romano ; ' by F. Moore, Esq. 



Election of Members, 

 Lieut. H. C. Harford, 99th Regt., Charles C. Dupre, Esq., and Owen 

 Wilson, Esq., were balloted for and elected Members; and Major Green- 

 wood, Esq., a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited some oak-galls of Dryocosmus cerriphilus, Gir., 

 Aphilothrix globuli. Hart., A. albopunctata, Sclil, and A. callidoma, Hart., 

 all described in the October number of the ' Entomologist's Monthly Maga- 

 zine,' p. 109 ; together with three curious bud-galls, unknown, from 

 Rayleigh, Essex. 



Mr. Champion exhibited an interesting collection of Hemiptera, brought 

 from the Mediterranean by Mr. J. J. Walker. Amongst them were Trigo- 

 nosoma Desfontainei, from Cagliari ; Phyllomorpha laciniata, from Gibraltar ; 

 and Prionolytus Helferi, from Tangier. 



Prof. Westwood forwarded a letter he had received from Uv. J. F. M. 

 Harris Stone, accompanying a sample of tea imported from Shanghae, 

 infested by a small beetle which proved to be the Ptinus hololeucus, an 

 insect belonging to a genus, the species of which feed indifferently on dried 

 vegetable as well as animal matter. 



Prof. Westwood also communicated a letter from Prof. Forel, of Lausanne, 

 stating that the Phylloxera vastatrix had made its appearance among some 

 vines at Pregny, in the canton of Geneva, which had been introduced from 

 England into the graperies of Baron Rothschild, and that the Phylloxera 

 had been discovered in two of his greenhouses, among vines planted m 

 1869, sufficiently distant from each other to render it improbable that the 

 insect had been communicated one from the other; and he therefore 

 concluded that the disease had been introduced iu 1869 from the graperies 

 in England. The vines so attacked had, however, not succumbed to the 

 disease, but were simply rather weaker than those which had not been 

 attacked. He was, therefore, anxious to ascertain whether the vmes m the 

 English graperies were less influenced than those out of doors; but none ol 

 the Members present were aware of the occurrence of the insect in England 

 out of doors, but that it had hitherto appeared in greenhouses only. 



