2072 The Zoologist — March, 1870. 



nest, showed any anxiety about the safety of the beetles, or indeed paid them 

 any notice whatever. Dr. Herman Becker, however, has told me that he believes 

 he saw some ants milk a specimen in the same manner as they treat the 

 Aphides. Mr. Harrison brought me a pair taken in copula in the nest ; an 

 interesting circumstance which leads me to think that the beetles seldom, if 

 ever, leave the formicarium. Another very much smaller species, a true 

 Paussus, which I have not yet determined, was found by the gentleman last 

 named in a nest of small reddish ants. I hope to have further opportuuities 

 of observing the ways of the Paussidse." 



Prof. Westwood observed that the sexual differences of the Paussidas had 

 not been recorded ; and any information on this point would be very welcome. 



Papers read. 



The following papers were read : — " A Revised Catalogue of the Lucanoid 

 Coleoptera ; with Remarks on the Nomenclature, and Descriptions of New 

 Species " (conclusion) ; l)y Major Parry. 



" On the Species of Charaxes described in the ' Reise der Novara ' ; with 

 Descriptions of two New Species " ; by Mr. A. G. Butler. 



Catalogue of the Neuroptera of the British Isles. 



Mr. M'Laclilan presented the MS. of " A Catalogue of the Neuroptera of the 

 British Isles," the first instalment of the proposed Catalogue of indigenous 

 insects ; and on so doing, he remarked that the term Neuroptera had been 

 taken in the Liuneau sense, as including the three sub-orders or groups known 

 as Pseudo-Ncuroptera, Neuroptera-PIanipennia and Triclioptcra. Of the 

 Pseudo-Neuroptera, the Catalogue of the family Psochidie was in accordance 

 with Mr. M'Lachlan's own Monograph of the British species, published in 

 1807 in the third volume of the ' Entomologist's ]\Ionthly Magazine,' the 

 synonymy after his own investigations ; the Perlidtu had not been very recently 

 revised, and were in an unsatisfactory state, but the Catalogue had been worked 

 out from an examination of such materials as were accessible to the compiler ; 

 the family EphemeridoB had been entirely furnished by the Rev. A. E. Eaton ; 

 and the Odonata, including six families, the LibelluUds, Corduliidae, Gomphidse, 

 .^schnidfe, Calopterygidae and Agrionidae, had been compiled from the works 

 of De Selys Longchamps and Hagen, adopting, however, almost in its entirety, 

 the division of the old genus Libellula originally proposed by Newman. The 

 Planipenuia and Trichoptera were catalogued in accordance with ]\Ir. 

 M'Lachlan's Monographs of the British Species published in the Transactions 

 of this Society, the Planipennia in the Transactions for 1868, and the Trichop- 

 tera in 1865 in the fifth volume of the third series, with such additions and 

 corrections in each case as subsequent investigations had rendered necessary. — 

 J. W. D. 



