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of an exolic species of Blatta imported with Orcliidaceoiis plants, and he had found 

 Evania appendigaster, in the several states of larva, pupa and imago, within these 

 capsules. 



Captures by Mr. Curtis. 



Mr. Curtis said that when on a visit recently to Mr. Dale, at Glanvilles Wootton, 

 he had taken the following insects : — Myrmica graminicola, ? only; Ephyra orbicu- 

 laria, June 10th, a fine $ ; Crambus uliginosus, June 15th to July 1st; Limnobia 

 6-guttata, Hal., June 15th to July 1st; Acentropus Garnonsii, June 15th to July 1st. 

 Concerning the latter insect he should make a communication at a future Meeting. 

 At Clifton he saw Mr. Walcott's beautiful collection of bees, from which he exhibited 

 two captured with the wings in a rudimentary state. At Mr. Vaughan's, at Bristol, 

 he noticed the method of capturing small moths in glass tubes, invented by Mr. Brown, 

 of Burton-on-Trent, and exhibited a sample. 



Singular Beetle found in South- American Ants Nests. 



Mr. Westwood read a notice, accompanied by drawings of dissections, of a very 

 curious beetle found by Mr. Bates in ants' nests, in the Valley of the Amazon, pos- 

 sessing the characters of several families, and so anomalous that it was veiy difficult 

 to indicate its nearest relationship ; and he further remarked that it was very singular, 

 that all the many Coleopterous insects found in ants' nests should have some peculi- 

 arity of form or structure. He described the present species under the name of 

 Gnostus Formicicola. 



New British Hemerobii, ^-c. 



^ Mr. Curtis read a paper on two new British species of Hemerobius, with remarks 

 upon the synonymy of Coniopteryx, &c. 



September 4, 1854. 

 Edward Newman, Esq., President, in the chair. 



In the absence of the Secretaries, the Chairman appointed Mr. S. J. Wilkinson to 

 act as Secretary for the evening. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to 

 the donors : — ' Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land,' 

 Vol. ii., Part 2 ; by the Society. ' Fabricia Entomologica,' par H. Jckel, Part 1 ; by 

 the Author. A pa])er entitled " On some Arctic Species of Calanidae," by John 

 Lubbock, Esq., F.Z.S. (from the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History'); by the 



