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ing of the Society by Dr. H. Johnson, with references to an analo- 

 gous case reported in the Medical Transactions (vol. i. p. 53), and 

 to Dr. A. Farre's paper on the anatomy of the larva of Anthoimjia 

 canicularis, published in the Transactions of the Microscopical So- 

 ciety, vol. i. pt. 1. p. 51. 



" Notices of Entomological captures at Stockton- upon-Tees." By 

 .lohn Hogg, Esq., F.L.S., &c. ; namely, two specimens of Vanessa 

 Antiojja Cone seen on August 7, 1831, and the other taken on Sep- 

 tember 2, 184-2, at Norton House, the residenceof the writer. Also a 

 specimen of Vanessa Cardui in 1842, not seen since 1826 and 1834. 

 Argynnis Paphia, captured August 28, 1828, and again in September 

 1842 on flowers ; thus being later in the time of their appearance 

 than in the south of England. The caterpillars of Sphinx Atropos 

 were abundant in potatoe-fields in October 1837, and again in 1842 ; 

 but the only moth of that species was caught there about thirty-two 

 years since. 



Vespa Britannica, Leach, had been not uncommon, its nest not 

 being larger than an orange, and of a very beautiful and delicate 

 workmanship. One of the specimens taken out of one of these nests 

 is so much larger in its size, that Mr. Hogg considers it to be the 

 queen-wasp, or mother of the nest, as she was the only one of the 

 colony which would not leave the nest, which was taken on the 30th 

 of July; the wasps which escaped therefrom, six or eight in number, 

 immediately beginning to build another near the same spot, and 

 suspending it to the dry stalk of the garden pea, working at it most 

 diligently for four days, when they forsook it, owing either to the 

 queen-wasp being taken or to the rain and decay of the pea-stalk. 

 The fine paper-like substance of which the nest was composed was 

 formed by the wasps chewing pieces of the dry old pea leaves, as he 

 had observed. 



Another species (which, from constructing a much larger nest 

 under the branch of a bush, he considered to be Vesjm Holsatica ?), 

 w hilst building the nest, busily ate or gnawed the membrane or por- 

 tion of the gi-eeii leaves of a purple gage-plum tree M'hich was close 

 to their nest, and to and from which they quickly flew and returned, 



Vespa vidgaris elaborates a coarser and stronger substance for 

 the manufacture of its nest, and which is chiefly composed of de- 

 cayed wood ; as Mr. Hogg had often seen these wasps busily gnaw- 

 ing the decayed part of a gate-post, &c., and then fly off" to their 

 nest : in fact he adds, that "one of the easiest modes of discovering 

 their nests is to follow them when they are so engaged." 



Continuation of a memoir on the Geotrupidcc and TrogidcB. By 

 J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. 



" Descriptions of some new Coleopterous insects from the Kasya 

 Hills, near the boundary of Assam." By the Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Lncanus Cantori. Piceo-hrunneus aurataque puhescentia tectiis ; 

 mandibulis exsertis in medio dente majori armatis apicibus sub- 

 furcatis ; clypeo dejiexo trigono, thoracefere ut in L. bilunifero, 

 femoribus 7-iibro-corallinis. Long. corp. (^ lin. 31, ? 18. Ajfinis 

 L, villoso, Hope, 



