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Mr. Janson exhibited a box of Lepidoptera and Coleoplera, captured by Mr. Fox- 

 croft, in Scotland ; also Drilus flavescens and other insects, taken on the occasion of 

 the Society's excursion to Darenth Wood, on the 17lh of June, when the Members 

 present had the pleasure of the company of Herr C. A. Dohrn, President of the 

 Entomological Society of Stettin, and Professor C. H. Boheman, Conservator of the 

 Entomological Museum at Stockholm. He also exhibited six specimens of the scarce 

 Hypulus quercinus, taken on the 8th and 10th of June, at Colney Hatch Wood. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited specimens of the new British Authrocera Minos, taken 

 near Galway, by A. G. More, Esq., by whom they were sent for distribution among 

 the Members. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a new species of Lithocolletis, bred from leaves of Vacci- 

 niura Vitis-Idasa sent from Scotland by Mr. Weaver; also Parasia Metzneriella, the 

 larva of which fed in the receptacle of a flower-head of Centaurea nigra. 



Mr. Smith exhibited Nomada armata, Smith, a bee hitherto exceedingly rare, but 

 which Mr. Dossetor found to be common at Cline Wood, near Swansea, in company 

 with Andrena Hattorfiana. He also exhibited a male of Tenthredo cingulata, this 

 sex being rare, although the female is common in many places ; and a new British 

 Crabro, — both taken by Mr. Dossetor, at the above locality. 



Carabus intricatus. 



Mr. Waterhouse stated that a clergyman, the Kev. Mr. Hore, had lately informed 

 him that he had, at different times, taken in the neighbourhood of Plymouth four spe- 

 cimens of Carabus intricatus, — a species which had been looked upon as a doubtful 

 native. 



Nepticula quadrimaculella. 



Mr. Stainton called attention to a paper, by Professor Boheman, on Entomological 

 discoveries made during a tour in the South of Sweden, in 1851, published in the 

 Transactions of the Stockholm Academy, containing descriptions of many new spe- 

 cies of all Orders, and, among them, a description of the insect taken by Mr. Boyd in 

 the New Forest, and exhibited at the August meeting of this Society last year, which 

 Mr. Stainton thought was Trichopterous, but which Prof. Boheman had, without any 

 remark, placed among the Lepidoptera, under the name of Nepticula 4-maculella. 



Nature of the Materials of Wasps Nests. 



Mr. Ingpen said that a microscopic examination of the material of wasps' nests 

 rendered it doubtful if it were made of woody fibre, as was generally believed, for, 

 viewed under a high power, it appeared to be composed of fungoid matter. 



Mr. Mark, of Bogota, present as a visitor, said that in South America the wasps 

 collected wood for their nests. 



The President stated that Professor Quekett had made a microscopical examination 

 of an anomalous mass taken by Mr. Bree from a rail cut out of the solid wood of 

 an oak, and had pronounced it to be not wood, but fungus. 



Genus Amycturus, §-c. 



Mr. Waterhouse read a paper entitled "Notes on the Genus Amycturus and 

 allied Genera of Coleoptcra, with Descriptions of some new Species." 



