Tue Zootocist—Juty, 1872. $155 
been found by her daughter, the Hon. Beatrice de Grey ; it was from the 
larvee then received that the figure of the mined vine-leaf I exhibit was 
made. 
“In April, 1872, I heard from Lady Walsingham that a specimen of 
the perfect insect had emerged from the pupa, which gave me an indication 
to expect specimens myself shortly, for my pup had not had the advantage 
of spending a winter in Italy. On the 23rd of May the first specimen 
appeared: this I now exhibit: it is much smaller than Treitschkiella, and 
I am sorry to say that a second specimen, which appeared yesterday, is 
considerably smaller than this.” 
Mr. Higgins exhibited a series of beautiful species of Cetoniide, princi- 
pally from Java, which he had recently obtained from Dr. Mohniki. The 
most striking species were as follows :—Pryenia Vollenhoveni, Mohniki ; 
Diceros Petelii, Buguet; Coryphcena gloriosa, Mohniki; Clinteria flavo- 
marginata, Wiedemann ; Glycyphana picta, Mohniki; G. palliata, Mohniki ; 
G. albomaculata, Mohniki; Eupcecila balteata, Vollenhoven; and Choleras- 
toma spondylidea, Mohniki. 
Mr. Jenner Weir stated that having recently planted many shrubs, of a 
variegated form, of Rhamnus alaternus in his garden at Blackheath, they 
were at once discovered by Gonopteryx rhamni, which deposited its ova 
upon them. He had not observed this butterfly in his garden for sixteen 
years, and considered it remarkable that the presence of the Rhamnus 
should have so soon attracted it, considering that this evergreen species was 
so totally unlike our two indigenous species in outward appearance. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan read the following communication which he had received 
from Prof. Alfred Newton :— 
“Did you not long ago ask about birds eating dragonflies? Mr. S. S. 
Allen (‘ Ibis,’ 1862, p. 360) says that the bottom of the chamber excavated 
by Merops persicus (sgyptius) was covered with the remains of dragonflies, 
mostly wings, upon which the eggs were deposited. In the common 
M. apiaster the eggs are said to be generally laid on handsfull of elytra and 
legs of Coleoptera, the rejectamenta of their meals: doubtless these dragon- 
fly wings are the same, as, a few lines further on, he says he found them 
made into pellets.” 
Mr. Miiller called attention to the following extract from the ‘ Times’ of 
the 29th of May, respecting a plague of ants in the Island of May :— 
“The Northern Lighthouse Commissioners have had a somewhat curious 
case presented to them for consideration and investigation. It appears that 
for some years past the emmets, or ants, have been increasing in number to 
a most enormous extent on the May Island, the property of the Lighthouse 
Board, and at present every part of the island is so infested with these little 
creatures as to render the land useless to the light-keepers. The myriads of 
