sed 
a a eal aad 
a a; 
first promulgated by himself nearly thirty years previously. 
Entomological Society. 9011 
2. A. fumata, Erichs. lib. cit. p. 166, Kraatz, lib. cit. p. 93. Found in Scotland 
by Mr. Morris Young and by Mr. Waterhouse himself. 
Mr. Waterhouse also exhibited specimens of Aleochara brunneipennis, Kraatz, = 
sanguinea, Kirby, and called attentiun to the fact that that species was identical with 
the A. merens, Thoms., as he had ascertained both from the description and by com- 
parison with a specimen received from Thomson by Mr. Crotch. 
Prof. Westwood exhibited the sexes of Ramphorhina Petersiana, a splendid Goliath 
beetle, brought from the Zambesi by the Rev. H. Rowley, the female being then for 
the first time exhibited; also several species of Lepidoptera from the Zambesi, 
amongst which was a new species of Charaxes, which considerably resembled an Ar- 
gynnis, and read descriptions of this and several new species of Coleoptera. 
Prof. Westwood also exhibited larve of Endrosis fenestrella, which had been sent 
to him by a correspondent, and which were accused of having made numerous holes in 
a carpet which had been laid down new in September or October last: on taking up 
the carpet, the larve were found on or in the interstices between the boards of the 
floor, but the larva-cases did not appear to be formed of particles of the carpet. 
Mr. Stainton remarked that the only evidence against the Endrosis larve was their 
propinquity to the carpet; he had never hitherto detected that species in the com- 
mission of similar injury. = 
Mr. Bond, however, had no doubt that they would attack carpets; he himself 
had once had a coat destroyed by them. 
Prof. Westwood said that another correspondent had called his attention to the 
injury done to the leather binding of books by Ptinus hololeucus, a well-known beetle, 
which he believed to have been imported into this country from Russia some thirty 
years ago in a cargo of leather, and which was now thoroughly naturalized. This also 
was a case of first conviction, for he had not before met with any instance of this insect 
doing actual harm.* 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a collection of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera from Old 
Calabar. 
Mr. S. Stevens also read a letter from Mr. John Young, on the subject of the 
swarms of small ants found in his house in Guildford Street; see ‘ Proceedings’ for 
October, 1863. Mr. Young stated that he had removed the pest by the use of 
Dumont’s Insect-destroying Powder, by puffing the powder into the crevices from 
which the ants issued, and laying it on the ledges, &c., on which they appeared. 
Mr. Waterhouse exhibited several portions of nests of bees, wasps and hornets, in 
illustration of the paper mentioned below. 
Papers read. 
Mr. Baly read a paper entitled “A Catalogue of Cassidide collected by Mr. A. R. 
Wallace in the Eastern Archipelago, with Descriptions of the New Species.” 
The Secretary read the first part of a paper, by Mr. Pascoe, entitled “ Longicornia 
Malayana; or, a Descriptive Catalogue of the Species of the three Longicorn Families, 
Lamiide, Cerambycide and Prionide, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Malay 
Archipelago.” 
Mr. Waterhouse read a paper “ On the formation of the Cells of Bees,” in which 
the Author defended what may be termed the circular theory of formation, which was 
* See ‘ Journal of Proceedings’ for September, 1862; Zool. 8218. 
