570 The Zoologist — February, 1867. 



Lepidoptevous larvae in galls, and finally he quoted a passage from the Proceedings of 

 the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, vol. 5, pp. 143, 144, lo shew that Mr. 

 Benjamin D. Walsh had bred a small moth (a Batrachedra) in plenty from galls 

 formed by one of the Tenthredinida? on the leaves of willows. — " Each gall containing 

 a single larva, unaccompanied by the larva of the Nematns which makes the gall, 

 which it must consequently have destroyed or starved out, either iu the egg or in the 

 larva state." 



Mr. E. G. Meek exhibited Dicrorampba flavidorsana (Knaggs, MS.),* a species 

 new to Science, fiom North Devon and Haslemere; a species of Hadena, supposed to 

 be new, taken by Mr. Harrington near New Cross ;f and Stigmonota leguminana from 

 Epping Foiest. 



Mr. Hewitson sent for exhibition some eggs " found upon the grass near some 

 heath" and which were unknown to him : no member present hazarded a conjecture 

 as to the insect lo which the eggs were referable. 



Mr. Hewitson communicated the following note on the plumules on the wings of 

 butterflies: — 



"When I was last at Bowdon, Mr. Watson, who has been studying the plumules 

 from the wings of butterflies, pointed out to me a group of the Pieridse which he 

 considered ought lo be set apart from the rest of the genus, having none of those 

 plumules upon them which abound ou the other species. This group consists of P. 

 Thesiylis of Doubleday, au undescribed species closely allied to it, P. Clemantbe, Dd., 

 and P. Autothisbe of Boisduval. This is confirmed by another distinctive character 

 which these species possess, the costal margin of the anterior wings being strongly 

 serrated. I felt therefore very much interested, when, on paying a visit to Mr. 

 Wallace, who is now studying the rieridae, I found that he has also set apart this 

 group. T send this notice to confirm an opinion I have expressed elsewhere, that a 

 study of these plumules will produce evidence which 'will assist in determining the 

 sexes, as well as in testing the worth of nearly allied species.' I may add that these 

 species have for many years been put together in my collection, having noticed the 

 peculiar serration of the wings." 



Mr. E. W. Janson exhibited, on behalf of Mr. T. J. Hani';, of Burton-on-Treut, a 

 specimen of Macronychus quadrittiberculatus, Muller, a Coleopterous insect previously 

 unknown to inhabit Britain, captured by that geulleman, early in the autumn of 1864, 

 iu the vicinity of that town. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a remarkably fine pair of the rare beetle Eucheirus 

 Duponchelii, and a number of small exotic beetles taken for the most part in ants' 

 nests. 



Mr. Weil exhibited a paper-like substance used by a Ceylon ant for lining its nest. 



Mr. M'Lachlan mentioned that the gulls on the elm which were exhibited by Mr. 

 F. Smith at the previous Meeting (S. S. 566) had been described by Claude Joseph 

 Geoffroy iu 1724, and by Reaumur in 1737, the latter of whom gave figures of the 

 gall: De Geer and Eticnne Louis Geoffroy (1764) also referred to it, and the insccL 

 was the Schizoneura gailarum-ulmi of De Geer. 



* Siuce described Ent. Mo. Mag. iii. 176, and figured Ent. Ann. 1 867, fig. 5. 

 f Xylina Ziuckenii, Tr. ; see Ent. Ann. 1867, p. 136. 



