2566 The Zoologist — April, 1871. 



Society. ' Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiaua,' anno secondo, 

 trim. iv. ; by the Society. ' The Journal of the Linneau Society,' Zoology, 

 No. 50 ; by the Society. ' The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical 

 Club,' No. 13; by the Club. 'The Canadian Entomologist,' vol ii., 

 Nos. 10 and 11 ; by the Editor. ' Species of the genus Buprestis of 

 Linneus, described previous to 1830;' by the Author, Edward Saunders, 

 Esq., F.L.S. ' Considerations sur la classification et la distribution 

 geographique de la faniille des Ciciudelites,' par A. Preudhomme de Borre ; 

 by the Author. ' Synopsis Coleopterorum Europae et confinium,' anno 

 1868, descriptorum, Auctore G. E. Crotch, M.A. ; by the Author. ' The 

 Spangle of the Mango leaf,' by Albert Miiller ; by the Author. ' The 

 Zoologist ' for March ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine ' for March ; by the Editors. 



Election of Members, 



The following gentlemen were ballotted for, and elected : — Baron E. de 

 Selys-Longchamps, as Honorary Member; the Rev. T. A. Preston, M.A. 

 (formerly a Subscriber), as Ordinary Member; and G. C. Champion, Esq., 

 as Annual Subscriber. 



Exhibitions, dx. 



Mr. Jenuer Weir exhibited a small collection of butterflies, taken by Mr. 

 Poole, in Madagascar. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited portions of two small branches of ash, from 

 which the bark had been neatly remoyed all round. He had received them 

 from the Rev. J. Hcllins, of Exeter, accompanied by a note, in which Mr. 

 Hellius stated that, one day last summer, he had observed a hornet busily 

 engaged in removing the bark from these branches. Mr. Smith could not 

 believe that the hornet was providing building-matciials for its nest, as he 

 had invariably found this to be composed of friable paper, apparently formed 

 from dead or decayed wood. Upon referring to Reaumur's ' Memoires,' he 

 found that that keen observer had recorded a precisely si mikr circumstance, 

 and he, Mr. Smith, was inclined to think the insect was endeavouring to 

 extract the sap, from the inner wood, as food. 



Mr. Smith further called the attention of the Meeting to a letter from 

 the Marquis Spiuola, published in tlie ' Revue Zoologique ' for 1844 

 (p. 240), in which the writer maintained his beUef in the luminosity 

 of Fulgora, statiug that M. Kaffer, who accompanied Prince Eugene 

 de Cariguau on his voyage, had observed, at Santos, in Brazil, a very large 

 Fulgora emitting a brilliant light. On the strength of this and other 

 statements, especially that of Baron Ransouuet respecting a Chinese 

 species, Mr. Smith was quite of the opinion that Fulgora is luminious, at 



