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toil in their capture, but in tbe pursuit of their natural instinct to secure food 

 wherever it is offered." I quote these remarks to show how differently the same cir- 

 cumstance may he estimated, and that althouorh it is possible Miiller is rij;ht about 

 the Claviger, it by no means follows that all beetles found in ants' nests are in any way 

 connected with the ant. It is, no doubt, very singular that such voracious creatures 

 as the ants allow so many aliens to live among them unmolested, but thouf^h ap- 

 parenily ready to eat any living thing, may they not, like other animals, have their 

 likings and dislikings? In some instances, especially where the resemblance of the 

 beetles to ihe ants is very great, it will probably be found that the beetles frequent 

 the ants' nest to eat the ants, but it is not likely that any beetles which the ants will 

 devour are voluntarily in their company. — J. W. Douglas ; Kingsivood FlacCy Lee^ 

 June, 1858. 



Cossonus linearis. — Remarking the supposition that this insect had not probably 

 occurred for twenty years prior to its discovery by Mr. Janson, the place of capture 

 being one of the arcana of science ; I beg to state that I met with it in the course of 

 last summer sunning itself on the tops of palings, near the railway-station, Upper 

 Norwood. — Alfred li award ; Gloucester Roady Croydon, June 22, 1858. 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Entomological Society. 

 June 7, 1858. — J. O. Westwood, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors: — ' First and Second Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and other Insects of the 

 State of New York, made to the State Agricultural Society, pursuant to an appropria- 

 tion for this purpose from the Legislature of the Slate,' by Asa Fitch, M.D.; presented 

 by the author. 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. ii.. No. 8; 

 by the Society. ' The Natural History Review', Vol. v., No. 2 ; by the Dublin Uni- 

 versity Zoological Association. 'A Monograph of the Asiatic Species of Neptis and 

 Athyma, two genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Nymphalidae/ 

 by Frederic Moore : * Descriptions of some New Species of Lepidopterous Insects 

 from Northern India,' by Frederic Moore; by the Author. ' Annales de la Societe 

 Entomologique Beige,' Tome premier; by the Society. 'Biblioiheca Historico- 

 Naturalis,' Vol. vii., No. 1 ; by the Author, E. A. Zuchold. * The Zoologist' for 

 June, 1858; by the Editor. * List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in 

 the collection of the British Museum,' by Francis Walker, F.L.S., &c. ; Part xiv. 

 — Noctuidae ; by the Author. 'Report of the Proceedings of the First Meeting of 

 the East Kent Natural History Society'; by Captain Cox. 'The Journal of the 

 Society of Arts ' for May ; by the Society. ' The Literary Gazette ' for May ; by the 

 Editor. ' Descriptions de Six Longicornes Exotiques Nouveaux,' par M. Chev- 

 rolat (from Archiv Entom.) ; presented by the Author. 



