The Zoologist— June, 1870. 2189 



May 2, 1370. —A. R. Wallack, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors : — 

 ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 118 ; presented by the Society. 

 • Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club,' No. 10 ; by the Club. ' Bullettino 

 della Societa Entomologica Italiana,' 1870, part 1 ; by the Society. ' The 

 Canadian Entomologist,' vol. i. ; by the Editor. ' Recherches sur les Crustaces 

 d'eau douce de Belgique,' parts 2 and 3 ; and 'Materiaux pour la Faune Beige : 

 Crustaces Isopodes terrestres ;' by F. Plateau, the Author. ' Notes additionelles 

 sur les Phryganides decrites par M. le Dr. Rambur;' by R. M'Lachlan, the 

 Author. ' Descriptions de Calosoraa nouveaux des Collections de MM. de 

 Chaudoir et Salle ;' by M. de Chaudoir, the Author. ' Contributions to the 

 Theory of Natural Selection;' by A. R. Wallace, the Author. ' Contributions 

 towards the Knowledge of Indian Arachnoidea ;' by Dr. Stoliczka, the Author. 



The following additions by purchase were also announced: — Latreille, 

 ' Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces et des Insectes,' 14 vols. ; De Castelnau, 

 ' Notes on Australian Coleoptera.' 



Exhibitions, Sc. 



Mr. Hewitson sent for exhibition a selection from a large number of butter- 

 flies collected in Ecuador by Mr. Manuel Villagomes. The whole collection 

 comprised 2000 specimens in perfect preservation, and the new species are 

 described in the paper mentioned below. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a collection of Japanese Hymenoptera (also a few 

 Coleoptera and Diptera) made by Mr. Geo. Lewis at Nagasaki. The Hymen- 

 optera included a few Ichneumonidse, but the principal part of the collection 

 consisted of Aculeata, of which there were forty-four species, and of these about 

 twenty appeared to he undescribed. The Apidse consisted of one new species 

 of Prosopis, two of Halictus, and five of MegachUe (two of which have also been 

 found in China) ; also one species of Lithurgus, one of Stelis, two of Ccehoxys ; 

 one undetermined species of Xylocopa, one Bombus (undetermined, but pro- 

 bably described), and lastly, one honey-bee, the Apis nigrocincta, also found in 

 China, the queen of which was not distinguishable from Apis mellifica, though 

 the workers were perfectly distinct. Of Fossorial Hymenoptera, there were a 

 new species of Pompilus, Priocnemis dorsalis (also found in China, Java and 

 India), a species of Agenia, an undescribed species of AmmophUa, three species 

 of Pelopaeus, including P. deformis, found also in China, and P. bengalensis, 

 a widely distributed form, found in India, China, Singapore and most of the 

 Islands of the Eastern Archipelago ; Sphex argentata, perhaps the most widely 

 distributed species of the genus, found in India, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, 

 Ceram and Aru, also in North Africa and South Europe; a new species of 

 Ampulex, Crabro vagatus, found also in China, an undetermined Larrada, and 

 a new species of Cerceris. The Vespidse, being insects of wide distribution, 



