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Mr. Moore exhibited some Lepidoptera from Hastings, among which were Spha- 

 leroptera longana, Haw., and Bryophila glandifera. 



Mr. Smith exhibited two specimens of the rare Ctenicerus castaneus, captured by 

 the Rev. C. Kuper, in Monmouthshire. 



Mr. Smith also exhibited a great number of Hymenoptera, which he had recently 

 captured in the Isle of Wight ; among them the following were the most remarkable. 

 Mutilla Ephippium (male and female), Larra unicolor, Philanthus triangulum (hi- 

 therto exceedingly rare, but of which he took between 200 and 300), Andrena nigri- 

 ceps (Kirby), Panurgus calcaratus, Nomada varia (Kirby), Ccelioxys vectis (Curtis), 

 Megachile maritima, the very raro Osmia xanthomelana, an immense number of Fce- 

 nus assectator, and one specimen of a Dasypoda, probably a new species. 



Mr. Smith stated that from the stem of dock exhibited by Mr. Douglas at the 

 March meeting, containing larvae then supposed to belong to Cemonus or Pemphre- 

 don, he had reared three specimens of Hylaeus, of which two (males) were H. planta- 

 ris, Smith (Trans. Ent. Soc. iv. 32), and one (female) was H. cornuta, Kirby, MSS. 

 (Smith, I. c.) ; thus leaving no doubt that these were but sexes of one species. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a quantity of insects, of all orders, part of a great mass 

 he had brought from below Gravesend on the preceding day, when from 7 to 8, p. m., 

 there were myriads on the grass, although at 5 o'clock scarcely any were visible. 

 Among them he had already discovered a number of a species of Haltica new to him. 



Mr. Waring exhibited two specimens of Plusia orichalcea, recently taken by Mr. 

 Harding near Folkstone. 



Mr. Augustus Sheppard exhibited specimens of Tortrix transitana from Fulham, 

 T. cinnamomeana and Dichelia Grotiana from Weybridge, and two strongly-marked 

 Demas Coryli, reared from larvae. 



Mr. Meade exhibited some cocoons of a Coccus found in May, from which a num- 

 ber of very minute insects, all alike, had escaped, and a sketch of which he exhibited. 



The President said he thought the holes visible in the cocoons were not made by 

 the Cocci, but by a parasite thereon, — Coccophagus; and he believed he perceived 

 some of them among the Cocci. 



Mr. Staintou exhibited the new species of Lithocolletis, recently described in the 

 ' Entomologische Zeitung ' by Herr Nicelli, under the name of L. Coryli ; also the 

 larvae and pupae in leaves of hazel. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited Gelechia Walkeriella, from Dartford Heath ; Peronea as- 

 persana, with its pupa-skin, and Sericoris conchana, both reared from larvae which fed 

 on the leaves of Spiraea Filipendula ; and a species of Coleophora, apparently unde- 

 scribed, for which, if such should prove to be the case, he proposed the name of Inulae, 

 the larva having fed on leaves of Inula dysenterica. 



The President read the following extracts from a letter he had received from I. P. 

 Kirtland, Esq., M.D., Cleveland, Ohio, dated July 15, 1851 : — 



" In the ' Arcana Entomologica ' it is stated, on the authority of Mr. Doubleday, 

 that ' Papilio Ajax is found chiefly in the lower country of the Southern States, east 

 of the Alleghanies ; its range is, I believe, from Virginia to Florida.' But this spe- 

 cies has a more extensive range. At my residence on the south shore of Lake Erie, 

 five miles west of Cleveland, it is not uncommon, and I have found it still more abun- 

 dant at Columbus, near the centre of the State of Ohio. With us the larva feeds upon 

 the foliage of the Anona triloba. This insect, in its various stages of metamorphosis 

 is correctly figured in Leconte's Boisduval's ' History of Lepidoptera.' 



