3842 The Zoologist — January, 1874. 



der Jahre 1869 und 1870, von Dr. A. Gerstaecker. ' 'Die Cetouiden der 

 Philippinischen Inselu,' Bescliriebeu von Dr. Otto Mohuike. 



Election of Member . 

 Mr. C. W. Dale, of Glanville's Wootton, Dorsetshire, was balloted for 

 and elected a Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. Higgius exhibited two bred specimens of Deilephila Euphorbise (one 

 a remarkable variety), and a Sphinx Pinastri, taken near Harwich in June, 

 ] 87-2, when several specimens of the former were found in the larva state. 



Mr. Champion exhibited a bred specimen of Pachnobia alpiua from 

 Braemar; also Harpalus quadripunctatus, Z)<!J., from Braemar ; Auisotoma 

 macropus, Rye, from Clareniont ; A. pallens, Germ., from Deal ; Liosomus 

 troglodytes, Ihjc, from Faversham ; and L. oblongulus, Doh., from Caterham. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited living larv® of Brachycentrus subuubilus, 

 which had been reared from the eggs. They fed upon Confervie, and the 

 cases constructed by them were clearly quadrangular (though the angles were 

 not prominent), and very diaphanous, so that the movements of the larvaj 

 could be discerned within. 



Mr. Bond exhibited fine specimens of Chile gigantcllus from Horning Fen. 



Mr. Vaughan exhibited Pempelia Davisella reared from larvae, feeding in 

 a web, upon shoots of Ulex. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited Leucania L-album and Cerastes erythrocephala, 

 said to have been taken at Canterbury by Mr. G. Parry. Also Acontia 

 Solaris taken near Dover in 1872, and a curious variety of Arge Galathca 

 taken in 1871 on the South coast. 



Mr. Miiller remarked that at a meeting of the Scientific Committee of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, on the l"2th instant. Dr. Mastei-s had exhibited 

 some galls found at Wimbledon on the roots of Deodara. That gentleman 

 had since submitted to him further specimens of this gall, which he had 

 found to agree, in external and internal structure, with those of Biorhiza 

 aptera, Fab., usually occurring on roots of oak. Mr. Miiller stated that 

 he had since bred several specimens of Biorhiza aptera from these Deodara 

 galls, and that he believed it to be the first instance where a true Cynips 

 had been known to transfer its attacks from oak to a species of Conifer. 



Papers read, dc. 

 Mr. W. H. Miskin, of Queensland, communicated some remarks on 

 Mynes Guerini, described by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the ' Transactions of 

 the Entomological Society,' J869, p. 77, but which he considered to be 

 identical with Mynes Geoffroyi, Guer., from the Malayan islands. He 

 alluded to a singular peculiarity in the economy of the insect, namely, that 



