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ever-watchful Providence to keep in check those countless myriads of Aphides which, 
in dry seasons like the present, cover the young shoots and feed on their juices, and 
which, if unrestrained, would desolate the earth. The fly lays its eggs among a colony 
of Aphides, and the grub, on emergence, finds itself surrounded by its natural food: 
it slays right and left, and devours the slain. It is, indeed, one of the greatest bene- 
factors to man, who, as usual, mistakes a friend for an enemy, and, as in the instance 
of our small birds, does all he can to destroy the remedy provided by the Almighty 
against an unquestionable evil.—Hdward Newman]. 
Proceedings of Societies. 
EnTomoxocican Society. 
August 1, 1864.—The Rev. Hamer Cuark, V.P., in the Chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:— 
* Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias de Madrid, la Ser. Tom. le, par. 2a ; 
2a Ser. Tom. le, par. 3a, Tom. 2e, par. la; presented by the Academy. ‘ Schriften 
der Konig]. Physikalisch-dkonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg,’ vol. 4, parts 
1 and 2; by the Society. ‘Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de 
Moscou,’ 1863, Nos. 1 and 2; by the Society. ‘ Transactions of the Zoological Society 
of London,’ Vol. v. part 3; ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1863, 
parts 1—3 ; by the Society. ‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ Vol. xiii. No. 65 ; by 
the Society. ‘ The Zoologist’ for August ; by the Editor. ‘ The Entomologist, Vol. ii. 
No.4; by the Editor, ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, No. 3; by the 
Editors. ‘The Reader’ for July ; by the Editor, ‘ The Journal of the Society of Arts’ 
for July ; by the Society. ‘ British Moths and their Transformations, by H. N. Hum- 
phreys and J. O. Westwood ; ‘ Essai Monographique sur la Tribu des Psychides,’ par 
T. Bruand ; ‘ The Lepidopterist’s Calendar, by Joseph Merrin ; ‘ La Flore des Insect- 
ophiles, par Jaques Brez; ‘Catalogue Synonymique des Coléoptéres d’Europe et 
d Algerie, par J. Gaubil ; ‘ Genera et Index Methodicus Europzorum Lepidopterorum, 
a Doctore J. A. Boisduval ; ‘ Europzeorum Micro-Lepidopterorum Index Methodicus,’ 
par. A. Guenée ; ‘ Du Tineen und Pterophoren der Schweiz,’ von Prof. Frey ; ‘ Letters 
of Rusticus ; ‘ Wahre Parthenogenesis bei Schmetterlingen und Bienen,’ von C. T. EB. 
von Siebold ; ‘On a true Parthenogenesis in Moths and Bees, by C. T. E. von Siebold, 
translated by W. 8S. Dallas; presented by J. W. Dunning. 
The following addition, by purchase, was also announced :—‘ Bericht iiber die 
wissenschaftlichen Leistungen ein Gebiete du Entomologie,’ 18838—1847, von Dr. W. F. 
Erichson. 
Exhibitions, 6c. 
Mr. Bond exhibited Gelechia pinguinella, a species new to Britain, found on the 
trunks of poplars near London ; and a specimen of Nyctegretes Achatinella, one of the 
rarer British Phycide, captured by My Thomas Brown near Yarmouth. 
Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited an albino variety of Eubolia bipunctaria, caught on 
the South Downs. 
