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ter, Tortrix Roserana, Fr'dL, in den Weingarten von Brunn naehst Modlung,' von 

 V. Kollar. ' Ueber einen bisher noch nicht beobachteten Feind des Weinstockes,' von 

 Custos Kollar. ' Beitrage zur Kentniss des Haushaltes und der geographischen Ver- 

 breitung einiger in okoraischer und techniscber Hinsieht nicbtigen Insecten,' von V. 

 Kollar. All presented by Herr V. Kollar, Honorary Foreign Member. 'Tavola sin- 

 notica dei generi spettanti alia classe degli Insetti artroidignati Hemiptera, Linn., 

 Latr., Rhyngota, Fab., Rhyncota, Burm! — Memoria del Socio attuale Signor Mar- 

 chese Massimiliane Spinola, Foreign M.E.S.; presented by the Author. " A List of 

 Insects and other Animals either injurious to Agriculture or of interest to the Farmer." 

 By J. Curtis, F.L.S. (From Morton's 'Cyclopaedia of Agriculture ') ; presented by the 

 Author. A box of Insects from Hong Kong ; by J. C. Bowring, Esq., Corresponding 

 M.E.S, A box of British Lepidoptera; by A. F. Sheppard, Esq. A box of British 

 Lepidoptera ; by Mr. Douglas. Specimens of Sirex duplex ; by J. Lubbock, Esq. 



Mr. Lubbock exhibited a quantity of Sirex duplex, which he had brought for dis- 

 tribution among the members. This species was abundant in woods between Bromley 

 and Seven Oaks, where their larva? did much damage to larch trees ; it was remarka- 

 ble that in a quantity which Mr. Lubbock had reared, the proportion of females to males 

 was 1 in 100. 



Mr. Adam White, on the part of Mr. Leycester, exhibited some insects from New 

 Holland and New Zealand, among which he pointed out Campylocnemus Schrceteri, 

 Schreibers, as remarkable for its curved hind-tibiae approximating to the curious, 

 curved, sub-fossorial hind-tibiae of the allied genus Scaptocarenum from New Zealand, 

 a formation of these members not otherwise known among the Carabidae. He also 

 noticed ^Enigma longipenne as an insect possessing remarkable characters. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a pupa of Sphinx Ligustri, with the sheath of the spiral tongue 

 distinctly bifurcate. 



Mr. Augustus Sheppard exhibited a remarkably pale specimen of Arge Galathea ? 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited beautiful specimens of Ornithoptera Priamus from Cape 

 York, Australia; of Cocytia D'Urvillei from New Guinea; Carabus Lafossei from 

 Shanghae; and Xylotrupes dichotomus from the North of China, near Pekin. He 

 also exhibited Epicalia Antiochus and Myscelia Medea, which Mr. Bates had ob- 

 served to be sexes of one species ; a thing never hitherto suspected, on account of the 

 difference of colour and marking. 



The President observed that when informed of this discovery of Mr. Bates, he had 

 examined the specimens in the British Museum referred to these genera, and found 

 the Epicaliae to be males and the Myscelia? to be females. The genus Epiphile of 

 Doubleday would likewise have to be abolished, the species therein being mostly refer- 

 rible to Epicalia. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited the larva of a Dipterous insect voided by a gentleman who 

 had been for a long time in ill health. It was white, naked, and attenuated, and dif- 

 fered materially from the larvae expelled from a human body, described by the Rev. 

 Leonard Jenyns in this Society's 'Transactions' (vol. ii. p. 154), as they had on each 

 segment a pair of minute, soft processes, fringed with bristles, which, when viewed in 

 the aggregate, formed a double longitudinal series down the back. In that instance, 

 also, the larvae were expelled in large quantities, whereas in the present but few had 

 been observed. Some medical gentlemen doubted if these were really insect larvae ; 

 but all the members present who examined the specimen sent, agreed that it was a 

 Dipterous larva, belonging probably to the Muscide. Some discussion arose on the 



