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have been called cuckoo-bees, that is to say, bees which do not build 

 nests, and deposit their eggs in the nests and upon the food stored 

 up by their more industrious brethren ; thus I find that the gall 

 formed by Cyuips Lignicola occasionally produces a species of De- 

 catoma, but I do not know whether the same gall produces the 

 Cynips also ; hundreds of the larvee of Cynips Lignicola are preyed 

 upon by its parasite, Calliraorae devoniensis. 



Cynips Radicis has two cynipidous parasites ; one a species of the 

 genus Rhodites of Hartig ; the other 1 have not determined. Of the 

 cynipidous parasites it must be borne in mind that both sexes are 

 developed in the ordinary numbers which we observe in cuckoo-bees ; 

 this species has also a chalcididous parasite which destroys its larva 

 namely, Callimome Cynipidis. 



Frederick Smith. 



December, 1860. 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Entomological Society. 



December 3, 1860. — J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 

 The following donaiioiis were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors : — 'Nouveaux Memoiresde laSocietelmperialedes Naturalistes de Moscou,' 

 Tomes xi., xii. and xiii. ' Bulletin de la Sociele Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 

 1859, Paris 2, 3 and 4 ; 1860, Part 1 ; presented by the Society. ' Bibliolheca His- 

 torico-Nattiralis,' Vol. x. Part I ; by the Author, E. Zuckold, Esq. ' Tijdschrift 

 voor Entomologie,' Vol. iii. Parts 4, 5 and 6 ; by the Entomological Society of the 

 Netherlands. ' Stettiner Entoniologische Zeitung,' Vol. xxi. Nos. 10, 11 and 12; by 

 the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' Journal of the ' Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society,' Vol. v. No. 18 ; by the Society. ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' 

 Vol. viii., and Nos. 205 — 217 ; by the Editor. ' The Zoologist' for December; by the 

 Editor. ' Mein Aufenihalt auf Taiti;' ' Reise von Shanghai bis Sidney ;' ' Beitrag 

 zur Fauna Dalmatien's ;' ' Ueber die ersten Slande von Plinthus Megerlei, P?. ;' 

 ' Mein Aufenthalt in Rio Janeiro;' 'Beitrag zur Insectengeschichte ;' ' Ueber einen 

 bisher verkaunten Laufkafer, beschrieben von L. Miller : and einen neuen augenlo- 

 sen Russelkafer, beschrieben von F. Schmidt: ferner einige von Schmidt in Schischka 

 neu entdeckte Hohlenthiere ;' ' Beobacklungen iiber die Entwicklungsgeschichte der 

 Chionea araneoides von Dr. J. Egger und G. Frauenfeld, nebst Anatomie des Insectes 

 und der Larve von Dr. F. Brauer ;' ' Ueber die Sommerbeschafligung eines Theiles 

 der Bewohner des Wienerwaldes, St. Paul,' Parts 1 & 2 ; ' Bericht des Henn Custos- 

 adjuncten G. Frauenfeld iiber den Erfolg der ihm gewordenen Mission die Weltum- 

 segelungs-expedition S.M. fregate ' Novara' als Zoologe zu begleiten ;' ' Ausflug nach 

 dem Adamspik auf Ceylon ;' ' Noiizen iiber die Fauna Hongkong's und Schanghai's ;' 

 ' Notizen gesammelt wahrend meines aufenthalles auf Neuholland, Neuseeland, und 



