The Zoologist— March, 1873. 3457 



Prof. Westwood exhibited tbe beautiful net-work cocoon of a species of 

 small moth from New Granada. This was attached to, or suspended from, 

 a leaf on which was also a species of Hesperiidae strongly affected by fungoid 

 growths. 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited two species of Buprestidse, from the Pelew 

 and Caroline Islands respectively, which appeared to pertain to a new 

 genus, notwithstanding that they bore much external resemblance to two 

 species of Chrysodema from tbe East India Islands. 



Mr. Champion exhibited Nanoi^hyes gracilis and Apion sauguineum, two 

 species of Coleoptera rare, or recently detected, in Britain. 



Mr. Muller called attention to a recently-issued Government Eeport, 

 intituled " Papers respecting the Phylloxera vastatrix, or new vine-scourge," 

 detaihng an account of the ravages of this insect in various continental 

 districts, and the means that had, with more or less success, been adopted 

 for preventing its spread. Prof. Westwood stated that the occurrence of 

 the insect in England had been noticed by him in 186;2, in a paper read 

 before the Ashmolean Society. 



Papers read, Sc. 



Dr. Sharp communicated a list of the water-beetles of Japan, chiefly 

 drawn up from materials collected by Mr. George Lewis, with remarks on 

 the distribution of the said insects. 



Mr. Wollaston communicated two papers. First, on a new genus 

 (Pseudotarphius) of Colydiidse from Japan ; and secondly, on the Cossonidte 

 of the same islands. In the latter paper the author commented upon the 

 apparent absence of European types in the districts of Japan visited by 

 Mr. Lewis, and stated that their place seemed to be taken by representative 

 forms. Mr. Pascoe thought the fauna of Japan might be indicated as 

 "satellite" (like that of Madagascar, &c.), having a quantity of peculiar 

 species mixed with others ; and a great deal in common with the coasts of 

 China and Siberia. Mr. H. W. Bates asked that judgment upon the 

 affinities of the Japanese fauna be suspended pending further information. 

 He said that although there were many Western European species found 

 also in Japan, the collective faunas of the two regions were totally distinct. 



New Part of ' Transactions.' 



Part iv. of the 'Transactions' for 1872 (published in December, 1872) 

 •was on the table. 



Annual Meeting, January 27, 1873. — Prof. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., 

 President, in the chair. 



