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Mr. Saunders observed that vast numbers of Diptera were seen in India on hot, 

 damp mornings, locally termed " cholera -weather : " and Mr. Baly added that in War- 

 wickshire, in 1849, during the prevalence of the cholera, the people had noticed great 

 swarms of flies called " cholera-flies.'' Of what kind they were he did not know ; but 

 neither in these, nor in the present appearance, could it be imagined there was any 

 connexion between them and the disease. 



Mr. Foxcroft sent for exhibition two boxes of his captures of insects of all Orders 

 in Perthshire. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited a hermaphrodite Alcis consortaria, in which the 

 right side was female. 



Mr. Smith exhibited specimens of many rare Hymenoptera, taken at Southend ; 

 and a living specimen of the male of the parasitic Anthophorabia nitida, now eleven 

 days old, although it had been stated by Mr. Newport, that it did not live more than 

 eighteen hours. Mr. S. staled that he should make a further communication respect- 

 ing this insect at the next meeting. 



Mr. Ingpen sent for exhibition leaves of Chrysanthemums, greatly infested with 

 Dipterous mining larvae, which first disfigured and eventually destroyed them ; but 

 never to such an extent as during the present season. These larvae were a second 

 brood, the former having ceased their devastations two months ago. They are proba- 

 bly the larvae of Tephritis Onopordinis and Artemisiae, on which there is an article by 

 Mr. Westwood, in Loudon's ' Gardener's Magazine ' for 1839. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited specimens of a Xylocopa from Port Natal, with its 

 nest, consisting of several chambers formed in a reed : also a mud nest of a species of 

 Pelopaeus, which contained five living pupae when he received it, but they had all pro- 

 duced only parasitic Crypti. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a collection of insects, of several Orders, just received 

 from Mr. Bates, collected in the region of the Amazon, including many small Coleo- 

 ptera, most of which were probably new. 



Mr. Hemmings sent for exhibition Asopia nemoralis, Scop., taken June 26th, at 

 Holm Bush, near Henfield, Sussex, and Choreutes vibrana, Hub., taken September 

 11th, near Hurst, Sussex; both being new British species : also Phibalapteryx gem- 

 maria, taken at Hurst, September 11th, and Coleophora bmotapennella,— a fine speci- 

 men, showing the characteristic markings, — taken at Brighton in August. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited specimens of Gelechia instabilella, bred from Chenopodium 

 maritimum, gathered at Brighton in August. 



The President read the following note by J. Walter Lea, Esq., communicated in a 

 letter from A. R. Hogan, Esq. 



" Parasitic (?) Moth found in the Pupa of Lasiocampa Trifolii. — In the course 

 of the early summer of 1848, I found a caterpillar of Lasiocampa Trifolii in the vici- 

 nity of Oxford, which throve satisfactorily, and in due time entered the pupa state, 

 having formed its cocoon in the regular compact oval form peculiar to it. Instead, 

 however, of the imago appearing, as it should have done, in July or August, it conti- 

 nued in the pupa state the whole of the summer, autumn, and winter of that year, and 

 also through the spring and summer of 1849. I then thought it must be dead, and 

 opened the cocoon to ascertain the fact, when I found it not only alive, but quite lively, 

 and apparently in perfect health. Having carefully closed the cocoon, I replaced it 

 in the box where I was preserving it, and looked at it from time to time during the 



