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laris, White), a wasp said to collect honey; this fine nest was brought from Monte 

 Video: of the economy of the Mantispa nothing- is yet known. 



Mr. White called attention to a remarkable beetle of the family Buprestidse in the 

 collection of Mr. Jeakes : it is near Anthraxia, having the epistome projecting and 

 developed into two marked horns — a character quite novel in this family of Coleoptera. 

 Length about 1\ lines. For the reception of this insect, which is from Santarem, 

 Mr. White proposed to found a new genus, and dedicate it to the gentleman in whose 

 collection it is contained. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Adelops Wollastoni, Janson, found by 

 Mr. John Stevens, under dead leaves in a market garden at Hammersmith. 



Professor Westwood observed that Hammersmith appeared to be a far richer ento- 

 mological locality than the neighbourhood of Oxford; since his removal from the 

 former to the latter place he had captured very few insects. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a specimen of Ishnoglossa corticina, a species hitherto 

 unrecorded as British, which he had detected in the collection of the late Mr. Hey- 

 sham, of Carlisle. 



Mr. Waterhouse also communicated some notes on the British species of the 

 genus Gyrophaena, including two species not yet indicated as indigenous, viz. 

 G.laevipennis, Krautz, and G. maura, Erich. : he stated that both these species appear 

 to be not uncommon in this country, and Mr. Janson observed that he also had 

 recently recognised them in his own indigenous collection. 



Dr. Wallace read a letter from Captain W. T. Russell, of Monk's Sleigh, Bil- 

 deston, Suffolk, in which the writer stated, with reference to the specimens of Papilio 

 Podalirius in a collection in Suffolk, said to have been captured at Sevenoaks, as 

 mentioned by Dr. Wallace at the October meeting of this Society, that the said speci- 

 mens were certainly taken at Sevenoaks by him (Captain Russell), but in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of the residence of a lady who had a day or two previously set at liberty 

 a number of specimens of this butterfly, which she had bred from pupae imported from 

 the Continent; there could of course be no doubt that those captured by him were 

 part of the imported brood. Captain Russell also detailed with much minuteness the 

 circumstances attending the capture of several specimens of Callimorpha Hera and 

 one of Eulepia grammica on a precipitous bank near Wrexham, North Wales, on the 

 27th of July, 1859: one of the examples of C. Hera is now contained in the indi- 

 genous collection at the British Museum. 



Mr. F. Walker communicated descriptions of Exotic Lepidoptera contained in the 

 collections of W. W. Saunders and A. Fry, Esqrs. 



The Secretary called attention to a specimen copy of the first part of Mr. Trimen's 

 new work on the Rhopalocera of Southern Africa, which was on the table, to which he 

 should be happy to receive the names of subscribers. 



The Secretary also read some descriptions of South-African Lepidoptera by 

 Mr. R. Trimen, including species pertaining to the families Satyridae, Lycaenidae and 

 Hesperidse. 



The President announced that the Council had, in compliance with the almost 

 unanimous wish of the Members of the Society, resolved to alter the hour of meeting 

 from eight to seven o'clock ; and that in future the chair of the monthly meetings 

 would be taken at the latter hour. — E. S. 



