The Zoologist — September, IS66. 391 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors: — 

 'Transactions of the Linnean Society,' vol. xxr. part 2; presented by the Society. 

 ' Verhandlungen der K.-K. zool.-botan. Gestllschaft iu Wien,' vol. xv.; by the 

 Society. 'On the Metamorphoses of Insects,' by Sir John Lubbock, Bart.; by the 

 Author. 'The Zoologist' for August; by the Editor. 'The Eutomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine' for August; by the Editors. 



Exhibitions, ^c. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a collection of insects sent by Mr. Reed from Bahia, 

 chiefly Coleoptera, and amongst which were some fine Cicindelidae and Carabida5, 

 Odontochile, Dercyllus, Scarites, &c. ; also a new Cetonia from Sierra Leone ; and 

 three species of Pogonostoma sent by Mr. Gerrard from Madagascar. 



Prof. Westwood said that since the July Meeting he had had an opportunity of 

 examining the remarkable beetle then exhibited and described by Mr. Pascoe, under 

 the name of Ectvephes formicarum (S. S. 322) ; it did not belong to the Paussidae, nor 

 was it allied to Gnostus; the mouth was diflferent from anything with which he was 

 acquainted, possessing enormous mandibles, with an elongated triangular or conical 

 moveable lobe; this was another instance of the extreme modifications of form found 

 amongst insects frequenting the nests of ants. 



Mr. Janson exhibited a box of Coleoptera collected by Mr. Charles Turner in the 

 New Forest, amongst which was Quedius dilatatus found in the larva-burrows of 

 Cossus ligniperda. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a remarkably dark variety of Cabera pusaria, captured 

 by Mr. Dorville at Alphington, near Exeter; the specimen was a male, and, whilst 

 the body retained the ordinary milk-white hue, the wings were quite fuscous, 



Mr. Bond exhibited Scoparia basistrigalis, a new species, recently characterized by 

 Dr. Knaggs (Ent. Mo. Mag. iii. I), and for comparison therewith specimens of 

 S. ambigualis, the most nearly-allied British species. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited two specimens of Caloptria microgrammana, a rare coast 

 insect, and two specimens of Sericoris euphorbiana (Zeller), a species which had for 

 some years been unique as British in the cabinet of Mr. Shepherd: both species were 

 taken at Folkestone by Mr. Meek during the present season. 



Prof. Westwood mentioned that it was only within the last few days that he had 

 bred any of the perfect insect of Bombyx Cynthia at Oxford ; so that his prospect of a 

 second crop of Ailanihus silk was this year hopeless. Others, however, had succeeded 

 in rearing the moth at an earlier period. 



Prof. Westwood directed attention to a paper by Mr. Packard, just published in 

 the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' in which it was asserted that the 

 pupse of Hymenoptera go through a series of mutations of form, analogous to those of 

 Cbloeon, as detailed by Sir John Lubbock. He suggested that the hive-bee afforded 

 a good subject for observations in corroboration of this theory. 



Mr. M'Lachlan mentioned the capture, on the banks of the Mole, near Reigate, of 

 Sisyra Dalii (Hemerobiidae), on the occasion of the Society's excursion thither, on the 

 6th ultimo; and exhibited a collection of cases of caddis-worms, part of which were 



