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November 3, 1 85 1 . 

 J. O. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors : — ' The Annual Report of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society,' 

 1849-50; by the Society. ' Jahresbericht des Naturwissenchaftlichen Vereines in 

 Halle,' two parts, 1849-50 and 1850 ; by the Society. ' Bibliotheca Historico-Natu- 

 ralis et Physico-Chemica,' Erster Jahrgang, Is Heft; Halle, 1851 ; by E. A. Zuc- 

 kold, Foreign Member of the Society. The • Alhenaeum' for October ; by the Editor. 

 The ' Zoologist ' for November ; by the Editor. A second box of Renfrewshire in- 

 sects ; by Mr. Young, of Paisley. A case of Tasmanian insects (from the Great Ex- 

 hibition) ; by F. Cox, Esq., Van Diemen's Land. A glass case containing a piece of 

 honeycomb, in which a queen bee had been reared from the worker-brood, (from the 

 Great Exhibition) ; by Mr. Golding. 



The following books had been obtained for the Society : — ' Orthoptera descripta 

 et depicta a T. de Charpentier.' Lipsia?, 1845 ; and ' Libellulinae European descripta 

 ac depicts a T. de Charpentier.' Lipsia?, 1840. 



Mr. Johu Hunter, of 24, Bloomsbury Street, London, was balloted for and elected 

 a Member of the Society. 



The President, in exhibiting the honeycomb presented by Mr. Golding, read the 

 following memorandum from that gentleman's note-book : — " July 2nd. Hive No. 

 5 having lost its queen, gave it a piece of brood-comb from another hive. On the 8th 

 found a sealed royal cell upon it. On the 15th, the young queen was come forth. On 

 the 28th found eggs and young larva? in the hive ; consequently the operation was 

 completely successful. The queen thus raised is now queen of the hive." Mr. Gold- 

 ing adds that " this might be taken as a specimen of the facilities offered by hives hav- 

 ing movable leaves or bars.'' 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a new British coleopterous insect — Dircsea discolor ; and 

 one of the rare British Tineida? — Gracillaria Phasianipennella ; both taken this year 

 in Scotland, by Mr. Weaver. Mr. Stevens also exhibited specimens of Helops palli- 

 dus, Curtis, found at Tenby by the Rev. H. Burney. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited some beautiful specimens of Aporophila australis, 

 and one example of the pale variety of Colias Edusa ; all captured this autumn near 

 Deal. 



Mr. Smith exhibited some oak-leaves, with galls, commonly known as " oak-span- 

 gles," attached. In one of these he had found a larva, probably that of Cynips longi- 

 pennis, an insect hitherto obtained only in the perfect state. 



Mr. Wilkinson exhibited larva-cases of a Talaeporia (T. Ferchaultella, Stephens P 

 Zool. App. cix.), found in July, from which females had been produced, which laid 

 fertile eggs without male intercourse. The larva? that had been hatched were also in 

 the box. 



Mr. White exhibited some specimens of Crustacea, including Idotea Baffini, Acan- 

 thonotus hystrix, Amphithoe Edwardsi, Nymphoii (new species), &c, collected by 

 Charles Ede, Esq, Assistant-Surgeon to H. M. S. Assistance, lately returned from the 

 Arctic regions. He exhibited some drawings by Mr. Ede, of minute Crustacea, espe- 



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