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him that he hiid, at different times, taken in the neighbourhood of Plymouth four spe- 

 cimens of Carabus intricatus, — a species which had been looked upon as a doubtful 

 native. 



Nepticula quadrirnaculella. 



Mr. Stainton called attention to a paper, by Professor Boheman, on Entomological 

 discoveries made during a tour in the South of Sweden, in 1851, published in the 

 Transactions of the Stockholm Academy, containing descriptions of many new spe- 

 cies of all Orders, and, among them, a description of the insect taken by Mr. Boyd in 

 the New Forest, and exhibited at the August meeting of this Society last year, which 

 Mr. Stainton thought was Trichopterous, but which Prof. Boheman had, without any 

 remark, placed among the Lepidoptera, under the name of Nepticula 4-maculella. 



Nature of the Materials of Wasps' Nests. 



Mr. Ingpen said that a microscopic examination of the material of wasps' nests 

 rendered it doubtful if it were made of woody fibre, as was generally believed, for, 

 viewed under a high power, it appeared to be composed of fungoid matter. 



Mr. Mark, of Bogota, present as a visitor, said that in South America the wasps 

 collected wood for their nests. 



The President stated that Professor Quekett had made a microscopical examination 

 of an anomalous mass taken by Mr. Bree from a rail cut out of the solid wood of 

 an oak, and had pronounced it to be not wood, but fungus. 



Genus Amycturus, Sj-c. 



Mr. Waterhouse read a paper entitled " Notes on the Genus Amycturus and 

 allied Genera of Coleoptera, with Descriptions of some new Species." 



Neio Species of Paussus. 



Mr. Westwood read descriptions of four new Paussi, viz. P. pacificus from Ceylon, 

 P. DeGeerii, P. Afzelii, and P. Bohemanii, all from Caffraria; the first communicated 

 for description by Herr Dohrn, the others by Professor Boheman. He also read 

 " Notes on various Insects," by Mr. W. Varney. 



New Part of the ' Transactions.' 

 Part 1, Vol. iii., new series of the ' Transactions,' was on the table. 



