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eminent Lepidopterist under the name of Sphinx Ephemeroe- 

 formis. 



The Secretary read a paper by Mr. Waterhouse on the 

 larvce of various Coleopterous insects, and the pupa of 

 Raphidia. 



The Secretary read a paper by himself on the economy of 

 Odynerus Antilope, one of the wasp tribe. 



The Secretary read a paper by himself on the genera 

 Lepisma and Podura, introducing some notices of Irish 

 species of these genera, by Mr. Templeton. 



Mr. Spence exhibited some very minute ants, which he 

 said had swarmed to so great a degree at Brighton, and some 

 parts of London, that, in several instances which had come to 

 his knowledge, the inhabitants had found no other alternative 

 than entirely quitting their houses. 



The Secretary announced that the council of the Society 

 had agreed to appropriate annually the sum of five guineas as 

 a prize for the best essay on the history of any insect preju- 

 dicial to agriculture, accompanied with figures, and detailing 

 the result of experiments made for prevention or cure of its 

 attacks. The Turnip-fly is the subject of the first essay, 

 which must be delivered, with a fictitious signature, in Bond- 

 street, by the fourth Monday in January, 1835, and be 

 addressed to the Secretary of the Society. 



[We were the first to connect Entomology with Agriculture, 

 and we can scarcely express the delight we feel in finding that 

 our dear little " Fire-fly" has lighted the way to this spirit 

 of inquiry. A word more : — Several of our correspondents 

 have complained that it is beneath our dignity to report the 

 affairs of the Entomological Society, and that the space might 

 be better occupied. To these we say, that nothing which 

 tends, in ever so humble a way, to the advance of Entomology, 

 shall ever be passed over by us as beneath our dignity. We 

 have abridged already as much as possible, but we cannot, 

 and will not, consent to give up these notices.] 



