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Sir John Hearsey exhibited a large box of Indian insects of various orders, being 

 a portion of the collection made by him during his recent service in that country. 



Professor Westwood remarked that the box of insects exhibited by Sir John Hearsey 

 contained many fine species, especially of butterflies, peculiar to Assam and the Dar- 

 jeeling district of the Himalayas ; likewise a specimen of Necroscia Tages, a spotted 

 winged species of Phasmidse, hitherto unique in the Hopeian Collection, as well as 

 one of a new genus of Actetidae of considerable size, also hitherto unique in the same 

 collection ; also specimens of each sex of the remarkable Lamellicorn Peperonola 

 Harringtonii of Westwood, and a fine new Prionideous insect with spotted elytra. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a specimen of the singular bee parasite Braula coeca, Nitzsch., 

 found in Devonshire on Apis Liguria. He stated that the species had not hitherto 

 been recorded as an inhabitant of Britain ; on the Continent it was found on the com- 

 mon honey bee, Apis mellifica, and it was rather singular that it was observed for the 

 first time in this country on the recently imported species A, Liguria. 



Professor Westwood observed that Germar's figure of this bee parasite was very 

 indifferent ; the best figure had been published in Italy, by M. Achille Costa, under the 

 name of Entomobia apum (Storia completa del Entomobia apum e su i danni che 

 arreca alle api da Miele ; atti del R. istituto d'incoraggiamento, vol. vii. 1845). 



Mr. Ha ward exhibited a series of specimens of Tillus elongatus, and suggested the 

 probability of the dark individuals being specifically distinct. 



Mr. Janson observed that Fabricius had described the so-called variety, having the 

 thorax dark, under the name of" ambulans." 



Mr. Haward remarked that he had captured thirty-seven examples of Ammaecius 

 brevis under one clod of dried horse-dung, which circumstance he considered indicated 

 its affinity to Aphodius. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some examples of Ceutorhynchus Crux, C. setosus, C. his- 

 pidus, &c., lately taken near Mickleham. 



Mr. Stevens also exhibited some fine Lepidoptera, sent from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, by Mr. R. Trimen. 



Mr. Stevens announced that Mr. Trimen was about to publish a work on the but- 

 terflies of South Africa, to be intituled ' Rhopalocera Africse Australis,' and added 

 that he should be happy to receive the names of any members who might wish to 

 become subscribers to this work, which it was intended should be completed in two 

 parts, at five shillings and sixpence each. 



Dr. Knaggs exhibited a drawing of the larva of Acidalia strigilata, made the day 

 before it commenced forming its cocoon, and being the only one which he had succeeded 

 in rearing from the eggs obtained by him last season. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a singular larva, mining in birch leaves, which he had 

 received from Scarborough. The mine began at the tip of the leaf, became gradually 

 broader till it swelled out into a blotch iu the centre of the leaf, where the larva cuts 

 out a round case formed of the two skins of the leaf. Mr. Stainton said he would not 

 express an opinion as to the order to which the insect belonged ; he had brought it 

 for exhibition, in the hopes of getting some information concerning it, but he might 

 remark that the mine more nearly resembled that of Tinea bistrigella than any other 

 mine he knew. 



Mr. Stainton also exhibited drawings of the singular gall-like swellings of the stems 

 of Silene nutans, formed by the larvae of Gelechia cauligenella. Mr. Stainton remarked 

 that there was nothing abnormal in the appearance either of the larva or perfect insect, 

 though its habits were so singular. There was no apparent opening into the gall, the 



