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l)efore six other cells are coinineiiced around it, and these again have progressed very 

 little before others are commenced external to them and in ihcir interstices, so that a 

 wasp's cell may be said to be altered into the hexagonal form as it proceeds, excepting 

 in the case of the outermost series of cells, where only the inner side of each cell is 

 angular, the outer side being almost always rounded. Mr. Waterhouse said he had 

 possessed a very small nest of a hornet which consisted of three cells only ; it was built 

 in a small cavity adjoining a large nest, and where there was not room for more than 

 three cells ; they were circular externally and angular internally, — that is to say, each 

 cell had two straight sides where it came in contact with two other cells, and was 

 rounded elsewhere. 



Mr. Tegetmeier remarked that he possessed a small piece of honey-comb which 

 presented the same peculiarities. 



Mr. Tegetmeier added that he had found it a great improvement to have double 

 glass to observatory hives. 



In answer to a question from Mr. Lubbock, Mr. Tegetmeier stated that he had not 

 made any observations, confirmatory or otherwise, of the theories advanced by Professor 

 Siebold, relativ e to the reproduction of these insects. 



Mr. Murray observed, with reference to this subject, that Professor Simpson had 

 transferred eggs from drone to queen cells, and that a larva produced therefrom grew 

 so large that at length it reached the glass of the observatory hive in which the experi- 

 ment took place, and then died : he thought it would be interesting to have this grub 

 dissected, in order to ascertain whether it was a female or not. 



Part 7 of Vol. iv., new series, of the Society's * Transactions ' was on the table. — 



Northern Entomological Society. 

 March 27, 1858. — B. Cooke, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Election of Members* 



T. P. Marrat, of Liverpool, and James Thompson, of Crewe, were elected 

 Members. 



Exhibitions. 



Capt. Cox, of Fordwich House, sent for exhibition three volumes, containing 

 drawings from life of Lepidopterous larva? upon their food-plants, by Mrs. Cox : the 

 accuracy and beauty of the drawings were much admired. 



Mr. Greening exhibited a box of Stegoptera, Newman, captured near Warrington, 

 and at Llanferras, North Wales, in 1858 : amongst them were specimens of Hydropsy- 

 che tenuicornis and H. angustata, Polycentropus subpunctatus, Leplocerus inter- 

 ruptus, male and female, L. quadrifasciatus, Melanna nigripalpis, Phryganea varia 

 and P. grandis, Helisus hieroglyphicus, Limnephilus binotatus, L. notatus, L. praeusta, 

 &c., and called attention to this beautiful and interesting order, observing that " the 

 more we saw of Newman's * roof wings' the nearer we should place them to his 

 ' scale wings,' as described in the ' Insect Hunters.' 



