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having been erroneously regarded by Fischer as a lung. Each of them has 

 separate excretory ducts, and is distinguished by a specifically different form 

 and organization of the vesicules secreting the saliva. Each consists of a 

 right and left glandular mass, with right and left excretory ducts. 



" For the detailed account of their minute structure we must refer to the 

 paper itself, and the plate accompanying it, but we must add that this extra- 

 ordinary development of the salivary organs has been observed by Prof. 

 Von Siebold in the workers only. The Queen possesses only a rudiment of 

 the lower cephaHc system in the form of the two orifices of its ducts, 

 whilst the ducts themselves with the glands are absent ; and the two other 

 systems are much less developed than in the workers. In the drones not 

 even the orifices of the lower cephalic system could be found. (Bieneu- 

 zeitung, 1872. No. 23)." 



Mr. Meldola, at the request of Mr. J. Jeaner Weir, referred to the chemical 

 composition of malt-sugar as compared with sugar in houey. It was stated 

 that malt-sugar had the same composition as glucose; while houey, in 

 addition to glucose, contained cane-sugar or saccharose. Mr. AVeir remarked 

 that it was an interesting fact that this chemical transformation of malt- 

 sugar into a sugar containing a different percentage of carbon should take 

 place in the economy of the honey-bee. 



Mr. Smith read ' Descriptions of Aculeate Hymenoptera of Japan, col- 

 lected by Mr. Geo. Lewis, at Nagasaki and Hiogo. Of seventy-three species, 

 forty-nine were previously unknown. He remarked that the distinctness of 

 his Apis nigrocincta from A. mellifica, recently questioned by Dr. 

 Gerstacker, had been abundantly confirmed by the discovery of a queen of 

 A. nigrocincta. 



March Srd, 1873.— Prof. Westwood, President, in the Chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors:—' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 141 ; presented by the 

 Society.—' BuUetino della Societa Entomologica Italiana,' iv. Pt. 4 ; 

 by the Society. -' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for March ; by 

 the Editors.— ' The Entomologist,' and ' The Zoologist for March ;' by the 

 Editor.—' Horse Societatis Entomologicis Rossicte,' t. viii. No. 4, t. ix. 

 No. 2 ; by the Society.—' Stettiner Eutomologische Zeitung,' xxxiv, Nos. 

 1— 3 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Election of Members. 

 Noah Greening, Esq., of Warrington, a subscriber to the Society, and 

 Edward Charles Buxton, Esq., of Daresbury Hall, Warrington, were balloted 

 for and elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



