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Paruides. Tbe captor, Mr. J. H. Bowker, of the Mounted Frontier Police, sent the 

 following note respecting them : — "Water beetles, very like Spanish flies, very 

 numerous in the Sunn (?) River: their habits are curious; whirling; on a sunny day 

 over the edge of the fall ; they then make a sudden dive tluMugh the fallen water, and 

 fasten to the face of the rock; they resemble in this way a flock of sea-ldrds wheu 

 feeding. I never saw them at any oilier spot." Mr. Clark slated that the insect 

 approached most nearly to Macronychus, Midler {Itlig. Mag.), a genus of Elraidoe, but 

 diff"ered therefrom in the form of the head, the number of joints of the anteniiffi, Sec. ; 

 its strong and broad claws and elongated robust legs would serve admirably lo secure 

 the beetle to the face of a rock, but it was not very evident bow its legs were adapted 

 for swimming. 



The Rev. H. Clark read extracts from a letter recently received from Mr. Edwyn 

 Reed from Bahia ; want of knowledge of the language had prevented Mr. Reed from 

 going up ihe country as soon as he had desired; be was proposing to spend May in 

 Valen^a, and about June to proceed into the interior to the residence of a hospitable 

 timber-merchant on ibe borders of the primeval forest. His first collection of objects 

 of Natural History might very shortly be txpected in London. 



Mr. Janson read a letter from Mr. J. A. Brewer, dated Fayal, April 24, 1865, 

 reporting the capture of about 150 species of Coleoplera at St. Michael's, by working 

 as in England in winter; there were no insects moving about, it being still (ihouijh 

 very warm) ilie winter of the Azores; many of those captured were apparently well- 

 known Briiish sjiecies, whilst others were unknown lo the writer; the majoriiy con- 

 sisted ofCarabida: and Staphylinidae, with some Curculionidie and a few Elateridae. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibiteil a specimen of Apatc capuciuns, taken by his son Mr. Edgar 

 Smith, in Bishop's Wood, on the 28tli of April last, running over fallen timber (oak); 

 be was not aware of tbe occurrence of the beetle in this country for .some years, though 

 Mr. Hope had formerly on one occasion captured half a dozen in Longniynd (or Long- 

 mont) Forest, Shropshire. 



Prof. Westwood mentioned that Sir Thomas Pasley had formerly sent him a num- 

 ber of specimens from Pembroke Dockyard, where they were found burrowing in the 

 oak timber. 



Mr. Bond exhibited the specimen of Dianthoecia albimacula, tbe capture of which, 

 on the 8th of June, 1864, near Gosport, is recorded in 'Tbe Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine,' vol. i. pp. 237, 282. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a Saturnia Polyphemus and its cocoon, and a large 

 Opbiou which bad emerged from the same cocoon. 



Mr. Stainlon exhii)ittd some galls on the leaves of an evergreen oak (probably 

 Quercus Ilex), broui^ht by Mr. Burney from Mentone. 



The President exhil)ited a Dorcadion, probably a new species, which be bad 

 captured a month previously at Alicante. 



Prof. Westwood mentioned that in the Burchell Collection, recently added to the 

 Oxford Museum, were specimens of larvae preserved in a dry state by a means ca])able 

 of easy adoption; the larva were simply placed under heavy weights, so as to squeeze 

 out all ibe intestinal matter, and then dried rapidly ; the shape was of course lost, the 

 skins being as flat as tbe paper on which tbey were exhibited, but tbe colours were 

 admirably preserved. 



i Mr. F. Smith exhibited various Bombi, in illustration of some criticisms upon 

 Dr. Sicbel's ' Essai Mouographique snr le Bombus montanus et ses Varieies,' and 



