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exhibited by the President ; Tenthredinidas reared from brambles ; specimens of 

 Trichiosoma and its parasite; examples of Raphidia, and the cast skin of its pupa, 

 remarkable for the possession of mandibles uulike those of either larva or perfect 

 insect, and which enabled it to bite its way through the cocoon ; and specimens of 

 leaves of trees, very neatly preserved, so as to show the forms of the mines of various 

 leaf-mining Lepidopterous larvae. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited two species of Micropteryx, both bred by Mr. Wilkinson, 

 of Scarborough ; M. Salopiella from birch, and M. subpurpurella from oak. Mr. 

 Wilkinson had unfortunately not observed the pupa, and was consequently unable to 

 corroborate or add to the description given by Mr. Stainton at a former Meeting. 



Mr. Pascoe read the following 



Note on Stenidea, Muls., and Blabinotus, Woll. 

 " In the last number of our ' Transactions ' (Vol. i. third series, p. 178) Mr. Wol- 

 laston, following Mr. Thomson, who has also been followed by Dr. Schaum, in his 

 new ' Catalogue,' makes the genus Stenidea, Muls., synonymous with Blabinotus of the 

 first-named author. This is an error which I pointed out some years ago to Mr. 

 Thomson, and I am only surprised that Mr. Wollaston did not see that a Longicorn 

 genus, with a porrect head and securiform palpi, could have nothing to do with the 

 Saperdides. Stenidea is very close to Pogonocherus among the Lamiidae, where Mul- 

 sant originally placed it. Blabinotus is a Callidium form, belonging therefore to the 

 Cerambycidae, and was placed by Mr. Wollaston, in his ' Insecta Maderensia,' imme- 

 diately after Phymatodes, which is about its correct position. I scarcely know, how- 

 ever, how the genus is to be distinguished from Oxypleurus, except it be by its 

 smaller and less emarginate eyes. I may add that Mr. Janson, at my request, has 

 kindly examined the two genera, and he is satisfied that they are perfectly distinct. 

 The name Stenidea is stated lohave been preoccupied: there is a Stenidea* certainly 

 among the Carabidee, and if this be the one alluded to I think the objection is invalid, 

 as they are not identical, however near they may be in sound. In any case, if there 

 is to be a new name, that of Ataxia of Haldeman must be adopted, an American spe- 

 cies described by that author being referable, according to Leconte, to Mulsant's 

 Stenidea." 



Papers read. 



Mr. Walker read a paper entitled "Notes on Chalcidites, with Characters of unde- 

 scribed Species." 



The Secretary read, on behalf of the author, a paper by Mr. R. Trimen, entitled 

 " On some new Species of South-African Butterflies collected in British Kaffraria, by 

 W. S. M. D'Urban, Esq., during 1860—61." In this paper eleven new species of 

 Rhopalocera were described, including one the tvpe of a new genus, named by the 

 author D'Urbania, and placed by him (notwithstanding its apparent resemblance to 

 the Satyridae) among the Lycaenidae. — J. W. D. 



* Dr. Schaum, in the second edition of his ' Catalogue,' writes Stenidia ; in the 

 first it is Stenidea, as Mulsant wrote it. 



