Entomological Society. 



8415 



Journal of the Society of Arts ' for December ; by the Society. ' The Entomologist's 

 Annual ' for 1863 ; by the Editor, H. T. Stainton, Esq. ' Sitzungsberichte der k. 

 baycr. Akad. der Wissenscliaften zu Miinchen,' 1862, I. Heft 4, II. Heft. 1 ; by the 

 Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders, after making some remarks on the importance, from a com- 

 mercial point of view, of a more intimate acquaintance with the various kinds of galls 

 and their fabricators, exhibited specimens of a gall found at Reigate on the roots of 

 the oak, and of another similar but larger root-gall recently brought from the Zulu 

 country by Mr. Cooper : they appeared to be the production of several successive years, 

 and formed in fact an assemblage of galls upon galls, leading to the hypothesis that 

 the perfect insect laid its eggs within the galls of one year, and the produce of those 

 eggs produced the galls of the following year. Mr. Saunders also exhibited another 

 gall from South Africa which was rather soft to the touch, and was found in clusters 

 upon a species of Cissus ; it was doubtless the production of a Cynips, though the 

 insect had not been discovered. 



Mr. Saunders also exhibited living specimens of a species of Bruchus from the 

 seeds of Erythrina Saundersonii. 



Professor Westwood exhibited a large tough pouch-like larva-nest from Africa, 

 which had been cut off from the branch of a tree to which it had been attached. The 

 tough interior material had several holes in it, which were covered exteriorly with 

 cone-shaped masses of woolly matter ; there were evidently door-ways for the exit of 

 the larvae, but it was difficult to imagine that a larva which had once emerged could 

 again effect an entrance through the same passage. The nest was doubtless that of 

 some gregarious Lepidopterous larva, and was somewhat analogous to that of Eucheira 

 socialis described many years ago by the Professor in the ' Transactions' of the Society. 

 Professor Westwood also exhibited the leaves of various plants which had been mined 

 by the larvae of Micro-Lepidoptera, mounted on glass, with the larvae inside their 

 mines. This novel method of exhibiting the miners, and the shape and peculiarities 

 of their workings, was due to Mr. S. Stone, of Brighthampton. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a fine Psalidognathus from Quito, and a remarkable 

 instance of arrested development in one of the hind wings of a specimen of Papilio 

 Pammon, brought by Mr. A. R. Wallace from the Sulu Islands. 



Mr. Fenn exhibited an unusual variety of Ellopia fasciaria. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited several remarkable varieties of well-known species of Lepi- 

 doptera from the collection of Mr. W. H. Bibbs, of Worcester, including Vanessa 

 Urticae, V. Atalanta, Arge Galathea, Arctia Caja, Eriogaster lanestris, &c. 



Mr. Percy Wormald exhibited a specimen of Limnephilus nobilis of Kolenati, a 

 trichopterous insect new to Britain, which had been captured at Ruislip, Middlesex, 

 on the 29th of September, 1862. 



Sir John Hearsey exhibited a collection of thirty-two species of Sphiugidae from 

 India. 



Papers read. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders read a further paper on the genus Catascopus, and gave 

 descriptions of seven new species, from Mr. A. R. Wallace's collection, under the names 

 of C. Wallacei, C. versicolor, C. ruficollis, C. laevipennis, C. elongatus, C. punctipennis 

 and C. aeneus. Specimens of these, with other species of the genus, were exhibited to 

 the Meeting. 



