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Mr. Desvignes also commnnicated several papers on Ichneumonidce to the 
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ; and the last volume of this 
Magazine contains descriptions of two new species from his pen, viz,, Ichneumon 
camhrensis, at p. 130, and Pimpla opacellata, at p. 174. 
His collection of British Insects will shortly be sold at Stevens'. Altogether, 
it is a fine one, and in the Ichneumonidae, as may be supposed, the finest ever 
formed of the British species. In the Aculeate Hymenoptera it is also good, in- 
cluding, as it does, the types of Shuckard's Fossores ; and in the Coleoptera it is 
rich in Elateridce and Xylophaga, containing many rare species in other groups, and 
including Shuckard's collection. There is also a good collection of Biptera, to which 
order Mr. Desvignes at one time paid considerable attention. 
Deaths of Foreign Entomologists. — Three North European Entomologists of 
some note have recently passed away — Von Tiedemann, of Dantzic ; Sommer, of 
Altona ; and Westermaun, of Copenhagen. All three must have been well advanced 
in years : the latter had attained the great age of 87. 
Entomological Society of London, ith May, 1868. H. T. Stainton, Esq., 
F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Trimen exhibited a cocoon of Saturnia pavonia-minor, -ndth the abdomen 
of the imago protruding from one end. This cocoon was spun in a small box, and 
the imago, failing to eflFect its escape head-foremost, had turned and endeavoured 
to emerge tail first, and had died in the attempt. 
Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a collection of the larvas oi^ Lepidoptera, preserved in 
a most life-like manner by Mr. Davis, of Waltham Cross. 
Mr. Stainton called the attention of the Meeting to a species of Antispila 
mining the leaves of the vine in the island of Malta ; the details of the life-history 
of which were published in 1750 in the Memoires de I'Academie des Sciences de 
Paris, in a letter to Reaumur from M. Godeheu de Eiville. This larva had not 
since been observed. Mr. Stainton proposed to call the species A. Rivillei. 
Mr. McLachlan said he had recently received a pamphlet from Chevalier 
Ghiliani, of Turin, respecting the appearance in Italy, last year, of immense swarms 
of the di'agon fly, Anax Mediterraneus. This insect had been originally described 
from an example supposed to have been taken in Sardinia ; but the species had 
been erased from the European List. 
Mr. Smith exhibited the larva of a Xantholinus, to the under-side of which 
were attached the pupas of a species of Proctotrupidce ; also the larva of Cerostei-na 
gladiator, and a species of Acheta, destructive to forest-trees in Madi-as. 
Dr. Cleghorn, Conservator of Forests in the Madras Territory, detailed an 
account of the ravages of these insects, and said, in answer to doubts expressed of 
the likelihood of an Acheta causing damage to trees, that this insect bit off the 
leading shoots. Mr. Trimen had noticed a somewhat similar habit in an allied species 
in South Africa. 
Mr. Smith exhibited a collection of eight kinds of larva? destructive to cofiee- 
trees in India. One of these was a Zenzera, and there were two other Lepidopterous 
larvas. The remaining five pertained to the Coleoptera, and included the notorious 
" white boi-er," Xyloirechxis quadripes. Respecting this latter insect. Dr. Cleghorn 
