4004 The Zoologist — May, 1874. 



the fact of his never having captured a bee which had a male Stylops 

 remaining iu its abdomen, at a later hour of the day than twelve o'clock. 

 He had himself bred Stylops five or six times, and had never done so later 

 than the month of April ; always having captured the attacked, or infested, 

 bees early in the day. On one occasion he bred a Stylops on the same day 

 on which he had captured the infested Andreua, conveying the bee home, 

 shut up in a pill-box ; then, on arriving home, he had placed the bee in 

 the sun, enclosed in a wooden box having a glass lid ; when, in the 

 course of half-an-hour, the Stylops quitted the body of the bee. On other 

 occasions he had kept Stylopized bees iu pill-boxes the whole of the day of 

 capture, but on placing them in a good-sized glass-topped box, and supplying 

 the bee with a few fresh flowers, the Stylops had emerged early the 

 following morning. 



The President remarked that he had once found a large number of bees 

 in the afternoon at dusk, some of which contained male Stylops, but on that 

 occasion the morning had been wet and dull, and therefore the bees had 

 probably only just made their appearance. Some further discussion ensued, 

 during which the Pi'csidcnt stated that during flight the males do not move 

 the rudimentary anterior wings (or "elytra"). 



Some further remarks were communicated by Mr. Gooch, of Natal, 

 respecting the ravages of a Longicorn beetle in the coffee plantations there, 

 which gave rise to a discussion as to whether the larvre of Longicorn beetles 

 attack healthy wood or not, a remark having been made by Mr. Newman 

 iu the ' Entomologist ' that, according to his experience of fifty years, he 

 had never found the larvae of Longicorn beetles in decayed wood, or those 

 of Laraellicorn beetles in sound wood. Mr. M'Lachlau stated that from his 

 own observations, healthy wood was not attacked by British species of the 

 family, though there were exceptions, such as Saperda populnea. Mr. 

 Smith remarked that he once attempted to sit upon a rail which broke 

 under him, when it was found to be infested with Rhagium bifasciatum, and 

 was completely rotten ; and the President had experienced the same thing 

 jn Turkey with regard to a chair which was destroyed by Longicorn larvoe. 

 Mr. Jauson thought that the larvoe of Lougicorus do not attack wood, rotten 

 from other causes ; but Mr. M'Lachlau understood Mr. Newman's observa- 

 tion to refer to living and healthy trees. 



Papers read. 



The following papers were communicated, viz. : — 



" Descriptions of Tenthredinida?, Ichneumouidfc, Chrysididaj and For- 

 micidae, from Japan." By Frederick Smith. 



" Further Descriptions of Lucanoid Coleoptera." By Major F. J. Sidney 

 Parry, F.L.S,— F. G. 



