Entomological Society, 



8667 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited some twigs of lime trees, gathered at Kennington, which 

 had been completely stripped of their leaves (whole trees having shared the same 

 fate) by the larvae of a Tortrix, apparently belonging to the genus Lozotaenia. 



Mr. Bond exhibited three varieties of the male of Anthocharis Cardamines, a species 

 but little liable to variation, all captured near London; and a hermaphrodite of the 

 same species, also captured near London, and having female characters on the right 

 side and male characters on the left side. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a hermaphrodite Papilio Machaon, from Whittlesea 

 Mere, in which again the right side was of the female form and the left of the male 

 form. 



The President exhibited drawings of two hermaphrodite honey bees. In the first 

 specimen the right side partook of the male characters, the antenna, eye, anterior leg 

 and intermediate leg being male, and the wing and posterior leg being female or 

 worker ; the left side was entirely worker. The second specimen was partly male, 

 partly worker; the antenna, eye, wing and legs, on the left side were all of the true 

 male form, and the abdomen was considerably enlarged on the same side. 



The President also exhibited specimens of Braula caeca, an insect which had been 

 found ou the Continent to be very destructive to honey in hives ; it had only recently 

 been imported into this country along with the Apis Ligustica, from a hive of which 

 species the exhibited specimens had been taken. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited British specimens of a species of Homalota, which, 

 being apparently undescribed, he named and characterized as follows : — 



" Homalota planifrons, n.s. 



" Horn, linearis, depressiuscnla, parwn nitida, fusco- nigra; elytris fusco-testaceis, 

 basi fuscis; pedibus teslaceis, femoribus fuscescentibus ; capite subquadrato, 

 fronte piano ; thorace subquadrato, eoleopteris angustiore, supra leviter canali- 

 culate, postice late foveolato; abdomine segmentis 4 primis crebre punctulatis, 

 segmento quinto parcius punctato, sexto fere ltevigato. Long. 1| lin. 



" Mas. Abdominis segmento sexto dorsali tuberculo compresso munilo. 



" In size, form, colouring, and in the structure of the antennae, this species very 

 closely resembles the Homalota gregaria ; it, however, may be readily distinguished 

 by the larger size of the head, and the subquadrate and depressed form of this part; 

 the parts of the mouth being more produced, and the fifth abdominal segment being 

 rather sparingly punctured. The male characters are moreover very different, nearly 

 resembling those of H. sulcifrons, Kirby (H. pavens, Erichs). From this insect 

 H. platycephala differs in being smaller and narrower, in the form of the head, and in 

 having the anterior abdominal segments rather less thickly punctured, and the fifth 

 segment somewhat sparingly punctured. 



"The head in bulk is very nearly equal to the thorax, and the part behind the 

 antennae is nearly square, but a trifle broader than long, and has the angles rounded; 

 the upper surface is depressed, rather more so in the male than in the female, and 

 has a faint longitudinal groove; the surface is most indistinctly punctured. The 

 antennae are uniformly fuscous, and when compared with those of H. gregaria present 

 no appreciable difference. The thorax is nearly quadrate, but slightly contracted 

 behind ; it has a shallow transverse fovea behind, and a shallow longitudinal depression 

 extends forwards from this to the middle of the thorax ; in the male is a distinct dorsal 



