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P. Perroud, 2me partie ; by the Author. ' Die geographische Verbreitung der Eu- 

 ropaischen Schmetterlinge in Anderen Welttheilen,' von G. Koch, Leipzig, 1854 ; by 

 the Author. ' Kaferfauna fiir Nord und Mitteldeutschland,' 3 and 4 Lieferung, von 

 M. Bach, Coblenz, 1854. Specimens of Formica cunicularia, $ and ?, Myrmica 

 ruginodis, M. scabrinodis, M. laevinodis, M. caespitum and M. flavidula; by Mr. F. 

 Smith. A piece of larch wood, from an old post, showing marks of the mandibles of 

 wasps in biting off particles for building materials; by W. H. Watkeys, Esq., Stroud. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited the first known British specimen of Goniodoma auroguttella 

 (a species beautifully figured and described by Fischer-von-R6slerstamm), lately taken 

 by him while sweeping on the banks of the Yar, in the Isle of Wight; specimens of 

 a new Miana, captured near Darlington ; a variety of Apatura Iris and a hermaphro- 

 dite Thecla Quercus, taken near Rochester; and a new species of Eccoptogaster, 

 found by Mr. Weaver in birch stumps at Rannoch. 



Mr. Foxcroft sent from Perthshire, for exhibition, the following Lepidoptera, re- 

 cently taken there by him : — Phibalapteryx lapidata, Depressaria ciniflonella, Lepto- 

 gramma Scotana, and Cheimatobia aulumnaria. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a specimen of Crambus Cassentiniellus, taken by Mr. J. 

 Hemmings on the downs near Brighton, remarking that it was not only a species new 

 to Britain, but is only known to have been captured in Italy by Professor Zeller. He 

 also exhibited a new Nepticula, bred by Mr. Weaver, in Scotland, from leaves of 

 Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea, for which he proposed the name N. Weaveri : and a specimen 

 of the scarce beetle Dyctiopterus minutus, found by himself, on the 17th of October, 

 on the palings of Addington Park. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited leaves of various plants, each kind containing larvae of 

 different species of Nepticula ; also leaves of hawthorn, containing larvae of the beetle 

 Ramphus pulicarius. 



Motion communicated to Seeds by Insects. 



Mr. Westwood said that Sir William Hooker had sent him some seeds received 

 from the West Coast of America, which had excited some curiosity by jumping about : 

 this motion was caused by an insect-larva in each of the seeds, and after a further 

 examination he hoped to communicate some more particulars, and to obtain the 

 name of the plant producing the seeds. Among them he had found an Ichneumon, 

 which was probably a parasite on the enclosed larvae. 



Mr. Janson doubted if larvae, perfectly enclosed as these were said to be, could 

 possibly give motion to the seeds; but the President said that Reaumur, as cited by 

 Kirby and Spence, had recorded a similar instance, and Mr. Curtis said he had 

 verified Reaumur's statement, the insects being larvae of Bruchi. 



Economy of Grapholiiha corollana. 



Mr. Douglas read the following translation of part of an article by Professor 

 Zeller, in the ' Zeitschrift fiir Entomologie des Vereins fur Schlesische Insekten- 

 Kunde zu Breslau,' No. 23, 1852 (published in 1854), observing that the species was 

 not unlikely to occur in England. 



