5172 THE ZooLoGiIsT—NovEMBER, 1876. 
Mr. William Cole exhibited numerous bred specimens of Ennomos 
angularia, bred from eggs laid by the same female, showing slight differences 
according as the larva had been fed on oak, hawthorn, lime or lilac, and 
comparing them with a number of specimens taken at large. In all cases 
the yellowish tint of the captured specimens was more decided. 
Mr. Enock exhibited microscopic slides containing some beautiful pre- 
parations of Polynema ovulorum, one of the Proctotrypide, and other minute 
Hymenoptera. 
A letter was read from Mr. E. Higgins with reference to some specimens 
of Deilephila Euphorbie, exhibited at a meeting of the Society on the 17th 
of September, 1873, which were then stated to have been captured in the 
larva state in the neighbourhood of Harwich. Some doubt was expressed 
at the time, as it was stated that the food-plant did not grow in that neigh- 
bourhood; but about the middle of September last he had visited Harwich, 
in company with Mr. E. W. Janson, and they were afterwards joined by 
Mr. Durand (from whom he had received the specimens of D. Euphorbis), 
who undertook to show them the place of capture, and they not only found 
the food-plant growing there, but in three other places nearly half a mile 
further on. 
Paper read. 
Mr. Frederick Smith communicated “ Descriptions of new Species of 
Cryptoceride belonging to the Genera Cryptocerus, Meranoplus and 
Cataulacus,” accompanied by a plate containing figures of all the species, 
twelve in number; thus raising the number of species described by him to 
forty-eight. The descriptions were preceded by some interesting particulars 
relative to the habits of these insects, especially of Meranoplus intrudens, 
which constructs its formicarium in the thorns of a species of Acacia, some 
four to five inches in length; and at a distance of about half an inch from 
the pointed end a small round hole was made by the ants, which served for 
ingress and egress to and from the nest. The thorns contained a kind 
of spongy pith, in which the channels and chambers of the nest were 
constructed. 
New Part of the Society’s Catalogue of British Insects. 
“A Catalogue of the British Hemiptera-Heteroptera and Homoptera 
(Cicadaria and Phytophthires),” compiled by Messrs. J. W. Douglas and 
John Scott, was on the table. This was the fifth Catalogue of British 
Insects published by the Society.—F. G. 
