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Entomological Society. 



the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 67to74; by H. T. 

 Stainlon, Esq. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Smith exhibited a box of insects sent him by Mr. Foxcroft, by whom they 

 were captured in the Free Town Garden and suburbs of Sierra Leone, in December 

 last. The Lepidoptera included Papilio Hippucoon and P. Pylades, a fine Charops, 

 apparently the female of C. Brutus, and both sexes of Euchromia instructa. Amongst 

 the Coleoplera were Tetralobus flabellicornis, Sternotomis mirabilis and S. regalis, 

 Prosopocera bipunctata and Dirphya, n. s. 



Mr. Smith also exhibited a Coleopterous insect allied to the genus Myrmedonia, 

 which he has found amongst a number of specimens of the driver ant {Anomma Bur- 

 meisleri), sent from Sierra Leone with the before-mentioned collection. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some beautiful Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, taken by 

 Mr. Wallace in Ke and Aru Islands, near New Guinea, of which the most remarkable 

 were the sexes of a variety of Ornithoplera Priamus, Papilio Enchenor, P. Ormenus, 

 P. Ambrax, Heslia D'Urvillii, some fine species of Drusiila and beautiful Erycinidce, 

 mostly hitherto unknown, Cocytia D'Urvillii, and some singular Geometrae, &c. The 

 Coleoptera included three handsome species of Eupholus, a gigantic new Mecocerus, 

 several brilliant Buprestidse, some fine and new Lomoptera, numerous species of the 

 Papuan genus Tmesisternus, and a noble Batocera, very distinct from all the known 

 species of the genus. 



Mr. Smith exhibited some Hymeuoptera captured by iMr. Wallace in the Aru 

 Islands; amongst the more remarkable were a species of Zuthus, entirely of a fine 

 brassy green colour, a new and beautiful species of Tremex, several very beautiful 

 Pompili, and numerous Formicidce ; amongst the latter the finest species of Myrmica 

 perhaps hitherto discovered ; three species of Odontomachus, and some entirely new 

 forms of the genus Polyrhachis. 



Mr. Westwood observed that it was extremely interesting to see the fine Papilios, 

 &c., which had been found seventy years ago by the Dutch in the Islands of the 

 Indian Archipelago, and since almost forgotten, were now being re-discovered and 

 sent to this country in such admirable preservation : the best thanks of entomologists 

 were due to Mr. Wallace and those who, like him, hazarded their lives in unhealthy 

 tropical climates to collect objects of Natural History, and he trusted they would 

 receive the pecuniary reward they so well merited. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a Tortrix of the genus Carpocapsa, allied to C. splen- 

 dana of Europe, which had been bred by Mrs. Wood, of St. Leonards, from one of the 

 "jumping seeds" sent from Mexico by Mr. Lettsom, and exhibited at the Meeting of 

 the Society in October last : he observed that, according to a long statement on the 

 subject which had appeared in the 'Journal des Debats,' some of these seeds had 

 lately been received at the Jardiu des Plantes in Paris, where the larva had been pro- 

 nounced to be Coleopterous ; but the specimen exhibited proved the correctness of the 

 opinion entertained by entomologists in this country, that they belonged to a Lepi- 

 dopterous insect. The question as to the mode in which the inclosed larvse are able 

 to execute the jerking movements exhibited by the seeds remained siill an interesting 

 question, for, supposing they were caused by the caterpillar adopting a process similar 

 to that employed by the cheese-hopper, it must be regarded as a solitary instance of 

 such action amongst lepidopterous larvae. 



