XV 



August 1, 1877. 

 J. W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited specimens of Teretrius picipes (Fab.), one of the 

 HisteridcB, which he had taken on the same fence, at Norwood, on which 

 he had previously taken Tillvs unifasciatus. He also remarked on the 

 appearance in his neighbourhood of a second brood of Colias ediisa, several 

 specimens having been observed hj him, all of which were males. 



Mr. Smith exhibited, on behalf of Dr. Bennett, of Sydney, who was 

 present at the meeting, a fine pair of the beautiful and rare beetle Eupholus 

 Bennettii (Gestro), from Yule Island, New Guinea. It had been described 

 under that name in the ' Annali di Museo Civico di Geneva,' viii. 1876. 



The Secretary exhibited a specimen of an insect which had been for- 

 warded to him by Mr. Bewicke Blackburn, who stated that a large field of 

 mangolds belonging to the Knight of Kerry, in the Island of Valentia, had 

 been totally destroyed by it. The specimen was examined by several of the 

 members, who agreed that it was the larva of a Coleopterous insect, but in 

 consequence of its imperfect condition it could not be determined. 



Mr. Douglas, who was unable to be present at the meeting, had forwarded 

 to Mr. Jenner Weir a letter he had received from Mr. R. A. Ogilvie, 

 enclosing specimens of an insect found in great quantities in a jar of pickles 

 (piccalilly). They confined their attacks to the pieces of cauliflower in the 

 jar, which they appeared to relish, notwithstanding the vinegar, mustard, 

 pepper, &c., in the pickles. The specimens had been submitted to Professor 

 Westwood, who replied that " the flies were the common Drosophila cellaris, 

 with their curious two-horned pupae ; and they frequent cellars and cup- 

 boards, delighting in stale beer, wine, &c." He supposed that " the cauli- 

 flowers were more to their taste than the other things in the jar, being 

 more succulent and flabby." In answer to a question put by Mr. Ogilvie, 

 he said that the eggs were laid in the pickle-jar, and not in the vegetables 

 before they were pickled. 



Mr. Douglas also forwarded a letter he had received from Mr. A. H. 

 Swinton, of Guildford, enclosing a specimen of Myrmica ruginodis, which, 

 on being placed under a wine-glass, stationed itself at the rim, head down- 

 wards, and rapidly vibrating the abdomen, continued " an intense noise," 

 resembling the spiracular piping of the Dipteron, Syritta pipiens. 



Mr. Enock remarked, with reference to a spider which had been exhibited 

 by Sir Sidney Saunders at a previous meeting as Atypm Sulzeri, that he 

 had taken the specimen himself at Hampstead, and that he had since 

 referred it to the Kev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, who stated that the insect 



