3420 The Zoologist — February, 1873. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited a drawing of a variety of Pyrameis cardui that 

 had long been in his possession, and which was captured many years since 

 on Margate Sands by the late Mr. Desvignes. 



Mr. Bond exhibited varieties of the following British Lepidoptera: — 

 (1) Lycsena jEgon, female, having the right-hand wings plain brown, whereas 

 those on the left-hand were blue : he at first thought it was what is commonly 

 called a hermaphrodite, but it really was a female combining the two varieties 

 of that sex in one individual : this was from the New Forest. (2) A fine 

 variety of Notodouta dodonea, captured at Tunbridge in 187;2. (3) A black 

 specimen of Acronycta megacephala, bred near London in 1872. (4) A 

 curious variety of Miselia oxyacanthae, taken at Portsdown in 1872. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a new British species of Ichueumonidse (Anomalon 

 fasciatum), bred by Mr. Mitford from the cocoons of the supposed variety 

 of Lasiocampa trifolii obtained from larvae found at Romney, Hants. [Vide 

 Proc. Ent. See. 1871, p. xxxi.x;.) 



Mr. F. Smith stated that Major Munu had asked him whether queen- 

 bees ever sting? Mr. Smith said that he had once had a queen-bee on his 

 hand for some time without the insect making the slightest attempt to 

 sting ; and Prof. Westwood said he had never been stung by one. 



Mr. Champion exhibited two species of Coleoptera recently captured by 

 him, and new to Britain, viz. Thyamis distingucndea, Rye (Ent. Monthly 

 Magazine, ix. p. 157), from Box Hill, and Lithocaris picea, Kraatz, from 

 Beauly. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited drawings of Strepsiptera intended to illustrate 

 Mr. S. S. Saundere' recently published monograph of the group. 



Papers read. 



The following papers were read : — 



" Notes on the manner in which the ravages of a Nematus on Salix 

 cinerea are checked by Picromerus bidens, L." By Mr. Albert Miiller. 



" Descriptions of new genera and species of Tenebrionidse." By Mr. F. 

 Bates. 



" On some new species of fextra-tropical South-African Buttei-flies." By 

 Mr. Roland Trimen. 



" Catalogue of the Phytophagous Coleoptera of Japan, chiefly drawn up 

 from materials collected by Mr. George Lewis." First portion ; by Mr. 

 J. S. Baly. 



" Supplementary notes on the genus Acentropus." By Mr. J. W. 

 Dunning. — R. JSl'L. 



