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to the Securifera, Teiilhredinata, Latreille, but I know little or nothing about the Hy- 

 menoptera. I have sent you a small bottle containing specimens of the insect in its 

 different stages, but the spirit has slightly altered their colour. One circumstance 

 strikes me as being rather curious: all the larvae t collected turned out females. I 

 was obliged to procure the males by pinning a female to a piece of cork and placing 

 it under the bushes." 



Mr. S. Stevens mentioned that the Coleopterous insect described by Dr. Schaum at 

 the September Meeting of the Society, under the name of Scaritarchus Midas, had 

 been previously described under the name of Mouhotia gloriosa in Gueriu's Magazine 

 for August last, and, according to the rule of priority, the last mentioned name must 

 prevail. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited a dozen species of Calascopus collected by Mr. A. R. 

 Wallace in the East Indian Isles, including the four new species described in the paper 

 hereinafter referred to, in connection with which Professor Westwood stated that a 

 paper had been published by the Natural History Society of Basle, in or about 1843, 

 containing descriptions of Catascopi from Africa. This paper appears to have escaped 

 notice, and he thought it not unlikely that some of the insects therein described would 

 be found to be identical with some of those afterwards described by Hope and Andrew 

 Murray. 



Papers read. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders read a paper " On the species of Catascopus found by Mr. 

 Wallace in the Malay Peninsula and the East India Isles," containing descriptions of 

 four new species, C. Schaumii, C. Aruensis, C lasvigalus and C. splendidus. 



Mr. Waterhouse read a " Note upon certain British Species of the Genus Quedius, 

 in which the elytra are more or less sneous and the scutellum punctured." 



Special General Meeting, 



December 1, 1862. 



Fredeeick Smith, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Alteration of Bye-Laws. 

 The Secretary read a requisition signed by six Members of the Society, and pre- 

 sented to the President and Council, requesting that a Special General Meeting might 

 be called for the consideration of the alterations in the Bye-Laws therein specified. 

 He announced that the same had been read at three successive General Meetings of 

 the Society, and also read the notice to Members convening the Special Meeting for 

 that evening. The proposed alterations in the Bye-Laws were then put to the vote 

 and adopted. 



