2610 The Zoologist— May, 1871. 



" 3. Andrena thoracica. In this specimen the male characters are on 

 the right side, and are observable in the antennae, head and legs. 



"4. Nomada baccata. In this specimen the male characters are found 

 to he on the left side; the head is about equally divided sexually; the 

 antennae having in the male sex the front side white, and also a white line 

 at the inner margin of the eye, and the face covered with silvery hair ; the 

 male mandible is longer and pointed at the tip ; in the female it is blunt. 

 The thorax is coloured as in the female. The abdomen exhibits a strange 

 peculiarity ; the apical segment above is blunt, as in all the females of the 

 genus, whilst beneath it is acute ; there are the usual six segments above, 

 beneath there are seven. Taken at Weybridge in 1845. 



" 5. Apis mcllifica. A monstrosity, partly male, partly worker. Antennae 

 worker on both sides ; eyes worker ; left anterior leg male ; the right inter- 

 mediate leg and also the posterior one male ; the abdomen has the silky 

 gloss of a male, and is in form partly so, being more blunt at the apex : the 

 male organ of generation is partly protruded. This specimen was sent to 

 me by Mr. Woodbury, of Exeter." 



Mr. W. A. Lewis called attention to the ravages reputed to he occasioned 

 to books by Lepisma saccharina, with reference to Mr. Quaritch's statement 

 made before the Society at the Meeting held on the 3rd of January, 1870. 

 Although it was acknowledged that Lepisma damaged books by eating the 

 paste of the bindings, thus causing them to fall to pieces, yet it had been 

 considered impossible for it to bore holes in the boolcs, as stated by 

 Mr. Quaritch, such ravages being considered due to Auobium. However, 

 upon referring to Dr. Packard's ' Guide to the Study of Insects,' Mr. Lewis 

 found that the author (p. 623) endorsed the opinion that Lepisma is a 

 borer. 



Mr. Home alluded to the damage done to sUk garments in India by 

 Lepisma ; the insect evidently attacking the silks on account of the stiffening 

 matters in them, but, nevertheless, making holes in the fabric. 



The Secretary exhibited a number of beautiful coloured figures of Chinese 

 Lepidoptera, executed by Mr. E. Holdsworth, of Shanghai. 



Papers read, dc. 



Mr. W. A. Lewis read a paper on the order of the groups of the Macro- 

 Lepidoptera. He criticised and condemned the arrangement introduced by 

 Mr. Doubleday's List of 1859, and accompanied the statement of his views 

 with a variety of comments on the modern works dealing with his subject, 

 particularly Dr. Knaggs' 'Cabinet List of Lepidoptera' and Mr. Newman's 

 ' Natural History of British Moths.' 



The paper first stated the order of arrangement by different authors from 

 Linnaeus to the present day, the conclusion amved at being that the 

 Linnean order was followed almost without deviation by every author down 



