1144 The Zoologist— Marcii, 18G8. 



Homoplerous Insects, p. 1049, and who cites some fifteen authors, all of whom describe 

 it more or less at length ; to whom I may add Blot (Mem. Soc. Linn, de Caen, 1824), 

 Hartig (Germar's Zeitsch. 1841), C. L. Kuch (Die Prlanzenlause, 1857),>nd more] 

 recently, Passerini (Aphididae Italicoe, Archiv. Zool. de Modene, 1863). 



"At the Meeting of the 5th of November (Proc. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. xxxii.) Mr. 

 Pascoe exhibited two females of a Coccus living under the leaves of the Eucalyptus. 

 Mr. Schrader has published an excellent paper with three plates in the first volume 

 of the Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales, 1863, where 

 Mr. Pascoe will certainly find his species of Coccus. 



" As I have occupied myself for several yjears with Cochineal insects in general, and 

 am endeavouring to bring together all the existing material on that subject, I should 

 receive with pleasure any papers, observations or insects which might be communicated 

 to me. As regards the insects, I should especially like to have the males, which are 

 extremely difficult to meet with, and I would ask those who find any to be kind 

 enough to place them in tubes with some weak spirit of wine, for when they are dried 

 it is impossible to make drawings of them. I should also be glad of information 

 respecting the plants'on which they live, which also may be inserted in the tubes." 



Mr. F. Smith thought that Dr. Signorct had misunderstood his remarks about the 

 galls of the elm ; the fact was that the galls in question had never been noticed in 

 this couutry before 1866. Mr. M'Lachlan added that he had referred to Geoffioy, 

 Reaumur and De Geer, not as being the only authors who had described the gall, 

 but merely to show that, though new lo this couutry, it had in fact been well kuowu 

 on the Continent for more than a century. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a new species of Oryssus, from the Gold Coast, the body 

 of which was of a splendid metallic deep emerald-green, a somewhat uncommon 

 occurrence among the Tenlhredinida;. Also specimens of Brazilian Hymenoptera and 

 Diptera, whose ecouomy was described in :he paper mentioned below. 



The Secretary exhibited a spider sent by Lord Cawdor, from Stackpole Court, 

 Pembroke, which was pronounced by Mr. Blackwall to be a female of Pholcus 

 phalangioides (see 'Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland,' part 2, p. 208), a species 

 which frequents the interior of old buildings in the South of England : having been 

 preserved in the dry state, the abdomen had shrunk greatly, and this circumstance had 

 affected the colour. Mr. Blackwall added that in the spring of 1867 he received from 

 India a species of Pholcus, described as P. Lyoui (Ann. and Mag. N. H. ser. 3, vol. 

 six. p. 392), one specimen of which "presented the extraordinary physiological fact of 

 the union of the two sexes in the same individual." In this gynandromorphous 

 spider, the left side exhibited male and the right side female characters. 



Papers read. 



Mr. F. Smith read " Observations on the Economy of Brazilian Insects, chiefly 

 Hymenoptera, from the Notes of Mr. Peckolt, of Cantagallo." 



Mr. M'Lachlan read "A Monograph of the British Neuroptera-PIanipennia,' 

 enumerating forty-nine species as inhabitants of the British Isles. — /. W. D, 



