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Mr. S. Stevens exhibited Dryophila Anobioides and Hylastes rhododactylus, also 

 the stump of broom from Plumstead Wood, from which he had obtained them. He 

 also exhibited a new species of Dorytomus, allied to D. tseniatus, from Wimbledon 

 Common ; Pogonus Burrellii, found in soft mud on the shore at Sheerness ; splendidly 

 coloured specimens of Lixus bicolor, from Deal, and Psyche retiella, from Southend ; 

 the last insect he thought was attached to Plantago maritima. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited some insects set up as specimens of the method of 

 preserving and displaying used by Mr. Ernard, who was about to proceed to Surinam 

 on a collecting expedition. With them were some spiders, of which the form and 

 colour were beautifully retained. He also stated that the collection of insects belong- 

 ing to M. Saville, containing types of all the species described by him, was offered 

 for sale. Mr. Saunders also exhibited some leaves of Rhododendrons greatly at- 

 tacked by Otiorhynchus sulcatus ; also two different kinds of pupa? enclosed in net- 

 like cases, and an anomalous pedunculated little bag which appeared to be full of 

 eggs of an insect, this receptacle being in the centre of a much larger bladder-like 

 formation ; all collected at Santarem, by Mr. Wallace. 



Mr. Weir exhibited a singular Lepidopterous insect recently captured, more like 

 an Argyresthia than any other genus, but not agreeing with any known species. 



Mr. Smith, on the part of Mr. Gould, exhibited four different species of Bombi 

 found impaled on thorns, and stated that it was Mr. Gould's opinion that they were 

 not so fixed by shrikes as commonly believed. Mr. Smith also exhibited a quantity 

 of the eggs of Meloe, and said that another batch, deposited by a female on the 7th 

 of April, had hatched on the 2nd of June. On the 27th of April he took eleven spe- 

 cimens of Pediculus Melittse from the bodies of Melccta punctata, which was much 

 earlier than any larvae of Meloe were ever lmown to be hatched ; and this fact tended 

 more strongly than ever to confirm his opinion that Pediculus Melittae of Kirby, was 

 not the larva of a Meloe. He mentioned as a curious fact, that all bred specimens 

 of Hymenoptera were larger than those captured at large. He then exhibited a new 

 British species of Nomada, a new British species of Crabro, and a new species of 

 Chrysis, taken near Bristol ; all from the collection of Mr. Hewitson. 



Mr. Stainton, on behalf of Mr. Logan, exhibited some small Lepidopterous larvae, 

 which drew up the tops of Helianthemum vulgare, at Arthur's Seat, near Edinburgh ; 

 and he stated that from the leaves of Helianthemum, exhibited at the April meeting, 

 he had reared Elachisti Staintoni. 



The following descriptions of some new Aculeate Hymenoptera from Epirus, by 

 Mr. S. S. Saunders, were then read, accompanied by some observations on their 



structure and habits : — 



Family Mctillid^e, Leach. 

 Genus Mtrmosa, Lair. 

 Mtemosa nig rice vs. 



Niger, thorace rufo, antice recte truncato, angulis acutis ; abdominis segmenti- 

 bus pilis albidis fimbriatis ; alis obscuris ; antennis pedibusque nigris. Mas. 

 Long. corp. -^ — §unc. Exp. alar. 1 unc. 



Family Scoliad^e, Leach. 

 Genus Parameria, Savigny. 



PAEAMERIA GR.ECA. 



Castanea, pilis albidis dense vestita ; femoribus, tibiis, mandibulorura apice, 



