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Mr. F. Bond exhibited specimens of Schizocerus palUpes ^ and 

 Cladius difformis ^ , from Stanmore, Middlesex ; also a beautiful va- 

 riety of Pcecilophnsia marc/inata. He also presented a number of 

 cocoons of the small Honey-Moth. 



Mr. Stephens exhibited larvse of Nyssia zonaria bred from eggs 

 received from Mr. Gregson, 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a specimen of a species of Typhlopone, 

 together with a female of a large species of Ant which had lost its 

 wings, brought from Algiers by M. Lucas, to the former of which 

 was attached the following note : — •" Fourmie trouvee dans une four- 

 miliere qui par sa presence fait fuire les vrais habitans de la fourmi- 

 liere ;" the wingless ant being one of the latter. This fact was of 

 interest as determining the real nature of the genus Typhlopone, 

 which Mr. Shuckard has regarded as composed of female DoryVula;, 

 but which Mr. Westwood considered to be true Formicidce. He also 

 exhibited specimens of a new species of Cetoniidce from Madagascar, 

 remarkable for the thick coating of coloured hairs on the hind tarsi 

 [since figured in the ' Arcana Entomologica,' under the name of Chro- 

 moptilia diversipes, W.]. He also exhibited the pupa of a species of 

 Eumenia, a genus of butterflies, presented to him by M. Boisduval, 

 which was attached by the tail as well as girt round the middle of 

 the body, thus proving this anomalous genus to consist of gigantic 

 Polyommatidce. Also a singular larva of some unknown Coleopterous 

 insect [Passalus ?] which possesses only four feet, the third or poste- 

 rior pair being reduced to a very minute size. 



The following memoirs were read : — 



Description of a new British lulus. By George Newport, Esq. 



lulus pilosus, Newp. Very like lulus terrestris, but smaller and 

 more elegantly formed. Black, shining, segments Jifty -six, deeply 

 striated longitudinally, with the tnargin of each, more especially of 

 all the posterior segments, set with fine white hairs ; anal spine 

 compressed and elongated. 



The chief characteristics of this species are the fringe of delicate 

 hairs at the posterior margin of the segments, and the number of the 

 latter, which amounts to fifty-six ; while in lulus terrestris, Avith 

 which this species may readily be confounded, there are never more 

 than lifty-one, and usually but fifty. It occurs in the neighbourhood 

 of London at the end of May, but is not common. 



Description of Depressaria Gossypiella, a small moth which is 

 very destructive to the cotton plant in India. By W. W. Saunders, 

 Esq., President. 



The insect in question, which was communicated to the author 

 by Dr. Royle, has committed great ravages in the cotton plantations 

 at Broach in Western India, whence it was sent by Dr. Barn, super- 

 intendent of the government cotton plantations. In a commercial 

 point of view, therefore, the means to be employed for its destruction 

 are of importance. The eggs are deposited in the germen at the time 

 of flowering, and the larva feeds on the cotton seed until the pod is 

 ready to burst, a little previous to which it opens a round hole in the 



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