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species of Coleoptera, and gave the names of the localities in which they 

 had been taken : — Cicendela germanica, Eumicrus rufus, Triarthron 

 markeli, Mezium affine, Homaloplia ruricola, Anomala frischi var. julli, 

 Synaptus filiformis, Lixus paraplecticus, Balaninus cerasorum, Asemum 

 striatum, and Zeugophora flavicollis. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited, for Mr. G. C. Bignell, of Plymouth, two 

 new species of Ichneumonidae, from Devonshire, viz., Pimpla bridgmani, 

 Bign., a parasite on a spider, Drassus lapidicolens, Walck. ; and Praon 

 absinthii, Bign., a parasite on Siphonophora absinthii, Linne. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse stated that the Acridium received from 

 Capt. Montgomery, and exhibited by Mr. Goss at the last meeting, was 

 Acridium septemfasciatum, and he exhibited the species with the wings 

 extended. 



Mr. Ridley exhibited a species of a scale insect (? Lecanium) found on 

 a nutmeg tree in Malacca, and made some remarks on Formica smarag- 

 dina, which makes its nest on the trees, joining the leaves together by a 

 thin thread of silk at the ends. The first step in making the nest is for 

 several ants to bend the leaves together and hold on with their hind legs, 

 and one of their number after some time runs up with a larva, and, 

 irritating it with its antenna?, makes it produce a thread with which the 

 leaves are joined; when one larva is exhausted a second is fetched, and the 

 process is repeated. 



Mr. Waterhouse read a paper entitled " Some remarks on the Antennae 

 of Insects." A discussion followed, in which Messrs. Champion, Jacoby, 

 McLachlan and Gahan took part. — H. Goss and VV. W. Fowler, Hon. 

 Secretaries. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS, 



A Reprint of the 'North American Zoology' by George Ord. 

 Originally published in the second American edition of 

 1 Guthrie's Geography,' 1815 : taken from the Author's own 

 copy; with an Appendix by Samuel S. Rhoads. 8vo, 

 pp. i— x; original title; pp. 290—361; Appendix and 

 Index, pp. 1—90. Haddonfield, New Jersey. 1894. 



The name of George Ord, from his association with Alexander 

 Wilson, and as an early writer on North American Zoology, is 

 tolerably familiar from citation by subsequent authors ; but the 

 publication on which his fame chiefly rests is of such rarity that 

 we have never seen a copy in this country, and have heard of only 



