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task of forming a collection. Thus we read that ' the contributions to the cabinet 

 during the past year have been both numerous and valuable. In Coleoptera there is 

 an increase of 520 species, 8885 specimens during the past year; in Lepidoptera au 

 increase of 198 species, 2169 specimens; in Diptera an increase of 75 species, 235 

 specimens,' &c. ; ' as a whole the interest manifested by the members in building up 

 the collections of the Society has. been exceedingly liberal and enthusiastic. The 

 cabinet was commenced in January, 1860, and since then 3678 species have been 

 presented.' 



" The library of the Society, we are informed in the same Report, ' now contains 

 129 volumes and pamphlets,' and the Society numbered in December, 1861, '53 mem- 

 bers and 27 correspondents.' 



"In the report of the Recording Secretary for 1862 we find an increase to the col- 

 lection of 1514 species, and an increase to the library of 344 volumes and pamphlets, 

 including a number of rare and valuable works, and the Society numbered in Decem- 

 ber last 65 resident and 48 corresponding members. 



"In the papers already published, 51 pages are devoted to Coleoptera, 4 to Neu- 

 roptera, 83 to Hymenoptera (45 of which are occupied with a paper by Osten-Sacken, 

 on the Cynipidae of the North-American Oaks), 53 to Lepidoptera, 22 to Hemiptera 

 and 22 to Diptera. 



"Amongst the coleopterous papers are two short papers on the habits of some cole- 

 opterous larvae and pupae, by G. H. Horn ; one with descriptions of fourteen larvae of 

 North- American Coleoptera belonging to genera the preparatory states of which had 

 not, to the knowledge of the writer (Baron R. Osten-Sacken), been made known 

 before; one with descriptions of four new North-American Coleoptera, by Dr. Horn; 

 and one with descriptions of nine supposed new species of Cerarabycidas, by J. H. B. 

 Bland. 



" Among the hymenopterous papers are the elaborate treatise (already mentioned) 

 on the Cynipidae of the North-American oaks and their galls, by Baron R. Osten- 

 Sacken, and two with descriptions of (seven and six) new species of Tenthredinidae, by 

 E. Norton. 



"Amongst the lepidopterous papers are four by Dr. Clemens, of which three are 

 devoted to Micro-Lepidoptera, and one contains a Synopsis of the families of the Hete- 

 rocera. The first paper on Micro-lepidopterous larvae furnishes a good introduction 

 to the successful study of those insects ; a description is given of the modes of feeding 

 of the larvae of the genera Coleophora, Lithocolletis, Aspidisca, Nepticula, Ornix and 

 Catastega, the number of species of which Dr. Clemens gives the habit of the larvae 

 in these genera being 7, 2, 2, 14, 1 and 3. The last-named genus is probably, how- 

 ever, as he suspects, allied to the Phycideae, and not referable to theTineina; the 

 second Micro-lepidopterous paper contains descriptions of nine new species, including 

 one of the curious genus Opostega ; the third paper contains a notice of Bedellia som- 

 nulentella, bred from the leaves of Ipomaea purpurea, and of two new larvae of the 

 genus Nepticula in the leaves of the sycamore. Amongst the remaining papers on 

 the order may be noticed Mr. Edwards' notes on Grapta Comma, Harris, and Grapta 

 Faunus, Ediuards, the latter species having been confounded by some authors with 

 the European Grapta C-album ; and Mr. Lintner's notes on the metamorphoses of Cera- 

 tomyia quadricornis, one of the Sphingidae, in which we have a very detailed account 

 of the whole process, from the egg to the pupa state, a change which is completed in 

 six weeks. Mr. Edwards has given descriptions of four diurnal Lepidoptera occurring 



