1064 THii Zoologist — January, 1868. 



Exhibitions, $-c. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited a new species of Thysia from Sumatra, which he proposed to 

 describe uuder the name of T. viduata; and pointed out that T. tricincta of Laporte, 

 from Java, was distinct from T. Wallichii of Hope, from Upper India. 



Mr. Pascoe also exhibited several other interesting Coleoptera, including new 



forms of Trogositidae from Penang, of Tenebiiouidae from Ceylon, Sumatra and 



N'Gami, of Brenthidae from Baichian, of Curculionidae from Peru, of An- 



thribidae from the Philippine Isles and Malacca, and of Lainiidae from Java and 



Malacca. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited the only known British specimen of Serropalpus striatum, 



captured some years ago in Leicestershire. It was the identical insect recorded in 



the 'Zoologist' for 1844, p. 701. 



Prof. Westwood also exhibited a small spherical nest, made of mud, with a white 

 silken casing inside ; it was found on the common ling near Reigale, in July, 1866, on 

 the occasion of the Society's visit to Mr. VV. Wilson Saunders, and was then thought 

 to be the nest of a spider. It had, however, produced the hymenopterous Eumenes 

 atricornis. 



Mr. F. Smith "remarked that the Eumenes atricornis of Curtis was the coarctatus 

 of Linnaeus; he had found many of the females at Bournemouth, carrying off a Lepi- 

 dopterous larva (probably Eupilhecia nanata) which fed upon ling. It was an error 

 to suppose that the larvae of Eumenes were fed upon honey. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a piece of dead willow-wood found at Mitcham, in which 

 were no less than ten cocoons of Mcgachile Willughbiella within a radius of an inch. 

 The burrows or perforations in the wood were lined with rose-leaves, but the same 

 species of leal-cutting bee did not always confine itself to the same kind of leaf — rose, 

 elm, laburnum, and others were used; in one instance he had known them to use lilac- 

 leaves, and he believed that they would take almost any leaf that happened to grew 

 near the nest. Some species made an inner lining of a different kind ol leaf from the 

 outer coating; he had known Mega chile argentatus to form an inner lining of the 

 petals of Lotus coruiculatus, and M. centuucularis of the petals of the scarlet 

 geranium. 



Papers read. 



The following papers were read : — 



" Contributions to a Knowledge of the Coleoptera," part I ; by Mr. Pascoe. 



"On some Undeseiibed Species of South-African Butieiflies, including a new 

 Genus of Lyeaenida?;" by Mr. Roland Trimen. Eighteen new species were exhibited 

 and described, including two species of Papilio, an Aeraea, a Panopca, a Deloneura 

 (n. g.), three species of Zerilis, an Ajdinams, four Lycajua?, a Pyrgus, two Cyclopides, 

 and two Painphilae. 



New Part of ' Transactions.' 



The publication was announced of Trans. Ent. Soc, 3rd series, vol. iv. part 3 ; 

 being the fifth Part issued during 18G7.— J. W. D. 



