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couple of hundred species of Longicornia, of which upwards of seventy were laid before 

 the Meeting, nearly the whole of them being new to Science ; many were referrible to 

 genera discovered by Mr. Wallace in Borneo and Singapore, whilst others were more 

 nearly allied to the forms occurring in Siam. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark (on behalf of the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, who was 

 present as a visitor) exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera (including Micro-Lepi- 

 doptera), Hymenoplera and Orthoptera from the banks of the Nile. Mr. Cambridge 

 remarked that insect-life was not abundant in Egypt; the specimens exhibited 

 included every Micro-Lepidopteron which he saw. He also called attention to the 

 seed-pod of a Cassia, from which had emerged a Lyceena; but the pod had not been 

 opened, so as to show the pupa. 



The Secretary read the following extract from a letter addressed to him by 

 Mr. Roland Trimen, dated Cape Town, November 12, 1864: — 



"I observe in the Report of Proceedings on March 7th, 1864, p. 10, that Professor 

 Westwood described as a new species a butterfly from the Zambesi, under the title of 

 Charaxes Argynnides. There can be no doubt whatever that this insect is Nymphalis 

 Jahlusa of my ' Rhopalocera Africae Australis' (Part I. p. 177), as I have carefully 

 compared Professor VVestwood's description with my own and with specimens of 

 N. Jahlusa, and have examined an example of this butterfly brought from the 

 Zambesi by a member of the mission party. The resemblance which this Nymphalis, 

 iu coloration and marking, bears to the species of Argynnis is, as the Professor 

 states, very remarkable, and is noticed in my Catalogue (p. 178). It is singular, how- 

 ever, that no true Argynnis has been taken in South-Eastern Africa, the only Fritil- 

 lary known to inhabit the region being Atella Phalanta, which has no silvery spots on 

 the under surface of the wings ; so that the silver-studded Jahlusa can hardly be held 

 to present one of those remarkable cases of mimicry which have been lately shown to 

 be not uncommon amongst butterflies. The markings of the upper surface, however, 

 correspond very nearly with those exhibited by Atella Phalanta." 



Mr. Dunning mentioned that the Rev. J. Collins, of Shepley Parsonage, near 

 Huddersfield, had recently captured in that neighbourhood a considerable number 

 (fifty or sixty specimens) of Dasypolia Templi ; they were found in quarries, amongst 

 loose stones, in the ruins of old houses, or in heaps of stones by the road-side, &c., and 

 were generally very snugly ensconced, resting on the under side of the stones. The 

 time of capture was the end of November and beginning of December, which, how- 

 ever, was too late in the season, for very few males were found, and those were 

 generally dead. The specimens varied in colour, some having a yellowish tinge, 

 others being brown or nearly black; and it was necessary to leave them for a long 

 time on the settiug-board in order that the wings might become stifi". Mr. CoUius 

 further mentiooed that on two or three occasions he had found some eggs, which he 

 thought might prove to be those of D. Templi; and ihat he inclined to the opiuion 

 that, in some cases at least, the food of the larva was the common ling or heath, or 

 the small sorrel. 



Mr. F. Smith communicated the following notes by S. Stone, Esq., F.S.A.: — 



Wasps and their Parasites in 1864. 

 "The year 1864 will long be remembered, on account of the magnificent weather 

 which prevailed throughout the whole of the spring, summer and autumn ; the 

 abundance of fruit of almost every kind, and the extraordinary number of wasps 



