The Zoologist— July, 1874. 4081 



Editor. ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' for June ; by the Editors. 

 ' Newman's Entomologist' and ' The Zoologist' for June ; ' by the Editor. 

 Butler' ' Lepidoptera Exotica,' pt. xx., and ' Cistula Eutomologica,' pt. ix. ; 

 by E. W. Janson. ' The Lepidoptera of Turkestan, from the Collection of 

 M. Fedtschenko,' by M. Erschoff; by the Author. ' Stettiner Entomo- 

 logische Zeitung,' vol. xxxv, nos. 1 — 6 ; by the Society. 



Election of Members. 



M. Achille Guenee, of Chateauduu, France, was balloted for and elected 

 an Honorary Member of the Society, in the room of M. Guerin-Meueville, 

 deceased. 



Mr. Alan Ogier Ward, of Putney, was balloted for and elected a Sub- 

 scriber to the Society. 



Exliihilions, dc. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited specimens of the white ant {Calotermes sp.), 

 recently bred at Kew from a sample of the wood of the tree (Trachylobium 

 Hornmannianum) that produces the gum copal of Zanzibar. 



Mr. Stainton read a letter he had received from the Rev. P. H. Newnham, 

 of Stonehouse, Devon, stating that he had taken two living specimens 

 of Deiopeia pulchella, on the opposite side of the river Tamar, in Cornwall. 

 Mr. Stainton remarked on the unusual circumstance of the insect having 

 been captured at such an early season as the month of May. 



Mr. Charles 0. Waterhouse sent for exhibition a living specimen of a 

 Mantid {Enqnisa imuperata), in the larva or pupa state, brought from 

 Hyeres by the Rev. Mr. Saudes, of Wandsworth. The captor stated that 

 he had supplied it with flies, itc, in the hope of ascertaining the mode in 

 which it seized them, but that he could not induce it to eat anything while 

 he was looking on. Mr. Stainton suggested that if he had put a living 

 spider in the cage it would probably have seized it immediately. 



The Secretary read the following note, which he had received from 

 Mr. William D. Gooch, of Spring Vale, Little Umhlanga, Natal, respecting 

 the habits of the Longicorn " coffee-borer of Natal : " — 



" The egg, as far as we can determine, is laid about the level of the soil, 

 about the middle of December, at a time when the trees look most healthy, 

 are making most wood, and the circulation of the sap is most free, it being 

 also during the damp part of the year. I have, however, despite considerable 

 investigation, been unable to get specimens of the egg, and so watch the 

 development of the larva from the earliest stages. 



" Specimens of the larva have already been laid before the members of 

 your Society, but I forward by this post also some specimens. 



" In only three cases, about January or December, have I met with any 

 insect in the bark, between the level of the ground and the roots, at all 

 corresponding to the larger insect found in the wood. On examining those 



