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insect-life is so immense, that they will not play a very important part in 

 helping us. No one shoots birds in the bush round us." 



Referring to one of the modes adopted by Mr. Gooch for kiUing the 

 lars'se, Mr. Dunning suggested that rubbing the bark of the trees round 

 the roots, as stated, would hardly have the desired effect, and would probably 

 damage the tree more than the insect. Dr. Horn (of Philadelphia) also 

 doubted the efficacy of the remedy of inserting wires in the holes, whicli he 

 compared to shutting the stable-door when the steed was stolen. He stated 

 that in Philadelphia a public park had been planted with a great many 

 different kinds of exotic trees, and amongst them were some pines, which 

 were all destroyed by two of their native species, Callidium antenuatum 

 and Monohammus deutator. None of their native trees suffered, but the 

 foreign Coniferoe were killed immediately. Dr. Horn also stated that it was 

 his belief that the Longicorns attack healthy trees, and that the Coniferae 

 in question had been previously noticed as the finest and licalthicst young 

 trees in the park. The lime trees from Europe were also destroyed in a 

 similar manner by hosts of Saperdoe. Mr. M'Lachlan repeated what he 

 had stated on a former occasion, that European entomologists generally 

 were of opinion that the majority of tlie European species of Longicorns do 

 not attack living trees while in a perfectly healthy state. 



Papers read. 



Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a paper entitled " Descriptions of some 

 New Species and a New Genus of Diurnal Lepidoptera in the Collection of 

 Herbert Druce, Esq." 



M. Henri Dcyrolle communicated some " Descriptions of New Species of 

 Lucanida;, from the Collection of Major F. J. Sidney Parry." 



Mr. Frederick Smith read a paper entitled " A Revision of the Hy- 

 menopterous Genera Cleptes, Parnopes, Anthracias, Pyria and Stilbum, 

 with Descriptions of New Species of those Genera and also of New Species 

 of the Genus Chrysis from North Cliina and from Australia." With regard 

 to the genus Anthracias in the above paper, Mr. Smith remarked that a 

 genus had been created by Klug, in the ' Bericlite,' under that name, but 

 that the detailed generic characters had not been given, although he had 

 mentioned the essential one, — that of the abdomen being composed above, 

 of only two (visible) segments, instead of three, as in the other Hymenoptera. 

 No mention had been made of it by any other hymenoptorist, and nobody 

 appeared to know anything about it; but latterly he had purchased the 

 collection of Mr. Shuckard, and in it he had found a single imperfect 

 specimen, which was undoubtedly belonging to the genus described by 

 Klug. It was mixed with specimens of Parnopes camoa, for which it had 

 no doubt been mistaken, and which it very much resembled. — F. O. 



