The Zoologist — March, 1873. 3459 



Exhibitions, Sc. 



Mr. F. Smitb brought for exhibition a box of Indian Hj'raenoptera 

 collected at Nuddea, in the district of Miucbindipore, about eighty miles 

 from Calcutta. It comprised about 200 specimens of Fossores, 160 Apidse, 

 and 230 Formicidae. Of the Fossores there were, apparently, only two 

 undescribed species out of about forty, and the same with the Apidse ; but 

 amongst the species of Formicidae there were eight or ten which appeared 

 to be undescribed. They were all in extremely fine condition ; the most 

 interesting species in the collection being a new Astata, and four or five 

 beautiful species of the genus Nomia among the bees. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited the quadrangular case of the larva of a species 

 of Trichopterous insect, together with the larva itself, preserved in glycerine. 

 These had been placed in his hands by the Rev. A. E. Eaton, who found 

 them in the Dove, a swiftly running stream in Derbyshire. He supposed 

 it to pertain to Brachycentrus subnubilus, as the larvae of that species were 

 not known to manufacture quadrangular cases. Mr. Eaton, however, 

 stated that he was not quite satisfied that the case and larva found by him 

 were actually those of Brachycentrus, for he had never seen that genus in 

 the part of the Dove in which he found them, though it occurred lower 

 down the stream. 



Mr. Champion exhibited specimens of a large species of Pulex found by 

 Mr. F. Walker in a mouse's nest in the Isle of Sheppy. 



Mr. Bird exhibited a specimen of Cerastis erythrocephalus, taken on the 

 28th of October last at Darenth Wood. 



Mr. Meldola exhibited a living specimen of a myriapod of the genus 

 Spirobolus, which had been sent to him from San Francisco. Also eggs of 

 a leaf insect (Phyllium pulchrifolium) from Java. He also showed a 

 specimen of a Noctua impaled on a thoi'u, supposed to have been done by a 

 shrike. Mr. Weir was inclined to think that, in this case, the insect was so 

 impaled ; but he believed that insects were frequently impaled by other 

 means. 



Mr. Pascoe called attention to a remark made by Mr. Walker in the 

 February part of the ' Entomologist,' to the effect that the fireflies {Succiola 

 Italica), seen in abundance in Italy, had probably entered that country from 

 the East, and were hindered by the Maritime Alps from occupying the 

 Mediterranean coast of France. He (Mr. Pascoe) had seen the insect in 

 abundance in France between Cannes and the Vai', and was desirous of 

 ascertaining if any entomologist had noticed it further westward in France. 



Mr. Albert Miiller communicated the following notes regarding the 

 originators of the pouch-galls on cinnamon : — 



" On the 4th of March, 1872, I exhibited before the Society some 

 specimens of an open pouch-gall on the leaves of Cinnamomum nitidum, 

 from Bombay ; and in a note on the subject (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1872, 



