British, and adds still another to the interesting contributions made to British Ento- 

 moloo V hy this most iudelatigable and successful collector. The species was first de- 

 scril)cd from a German specimen, in Bnrmeister's ' Handbuch der Eutomologie,' vol. 

 iii. p. 97,'); and a second time by Mr. Walker, in the 'Catalogue of Neuropterous 

 Insects in the British Museum,' part iii. p. 298. 



Works on Zoolocji/ and Geology. 

 The President said that he had again been requested to state, that Sir William 

 Jardine would be happy to receive any additions, from authors of works on Zoology 

 and Geology, to the lists of their writings already sent in for publication by the Ray 

 Society; the appearance of this bibliographical volume having been delayed by the 

 untimely death of the lamented Mr. Strickland, to whom it had been entrusted. 



Insects of Moreton Bay. 

 The President mentioned that he had received a communication from Mr. Rawns- 

 ley, offering to collect insects for the Society, or any of its Members, at Moreton Bay, 

 in New South Wales. 



Larva of Mono dontom eras. 



Read, a letter from G. Newport, Esq., F.R.S., &c., controverting at great length 

 some of the statements of Mr. F. Smith respecting Monodontomerus, published in the 

 ' Transactions ' of the Linnean and this Society, and claiming the prior discovery of 

 the larva. 



Mr. Smith briefly replied that he had nothing to retract, and was content to abide 

 by his former statements. 



Phosphorescence of the Larva of an Insect. 

 The following paper was read : — 



" Observations on the Phosphorescence of the Larva of an Insect." By J. Ileiu- 

 hardt. Read before the Association of Naturalists at Copenhagen, at the meeting on 

 the 18th of February, 1853.* 



" In April, 1852, on arriving towards the conclusion of my stay at Lagoa Santa, 

 the larva of an insect, an inch and a half long, and emitting a strong light of a veiy 

 peculiar kind, was brought to me, having been caught in a house just as it was creep- 

 ing out from under a piece of timber lying in a passage. It had been seen the even- 

 ing before, but had escaped before any one could muster up courage to lay hold of it. 

 None of the inhabitants of the village to whom the animal was shown knew anything 

 about it; though it cannot be of particularly rare occurrence in that part of Brazil, 

 because I have heard, from an amateur of Zoology from Sahara, that he had met with 

 it several times in that town. 



" The peculiarity in its luminous property consists in its producing two distinct sorts 

 of light ; for while all the segments of the body, with the exception of the prothorax, 

 are each furnished on the dorsal side with two shining points radiating a greenish light, 

 like that which we see in our glow-worm and similar forms, the whole of the head, 



* Translated from the Danish by Dr. Wallich, F.R.S., Y.P. Linn, Soc. 



