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e extensive knowledge of Coleo.tera is indisputable ; and the rest seems tolera- 
on-ect. The illust.-ations are, as a rnle. weU engraved; yet xnany are very 
l^ein.of the well-known unnatural French type, and the worst are those 
: f om older authors, which seen, to be pressed into their service by all French 
lar writers on insects with such accurate copying, that one .s almost mduced 
ley that the same wood-blocks do duty in rival publications. The wor^^.s 
isomely got up, and will no doubt form an attractive ornament on many drawmg- 
wfclnnot refrain from remarking on the low price at which these French 
r republished, as compared with similar ^^^^^^^7' ^^^f ^^^^ 
he other side of the Channel can scarcely be greater than here. The secret 
Lthecost of production, and it isahumiliating fact that t^e art.si.c work o 
.Le like this can probably be done on the Continent for almost a t.the of what 
ould cost in England. Even printing in the EngHsh language can be execut d 
ome of the larg: German towns at a far lower rate than at home and on equal y 
d paper. We say this in no disparagement of an enterpr.smg class of artxzans . 
difficulty remains to be solved by the political economist. 
E.TOM0.0G.C.L SociKTV o. LoNBON, 3rcZ M«,, 1869. H. W. B.tes, Esq., 
;.S., President, in the Chair. 
C. 0. Waterhouse, Esq., Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British 
iseum, was elected a Member. 
Mr. Stevens exhibited a large collection of Chinese ColeovUra. 
Mr. Butler mentioned that the West African Co.ocep/.al.s, exhibited by him 
the Meeting on the 15th February last, was still aUve, though it had eaten 
^'pLssor Westwood exhibited, and remarked upon, several species of ^ 
a other Eymeno^tera of doubtful position, includmg an example of Ccayo.. 
^inoJs, Hope, taken at large at Natal, the species having been origW^ 
scribed and figured (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1st series, vol. u, p. 56, pi. 7, fig. 11), f-m 
example enclosed in Gum Anime. 
' Mr. Home read some observations o„ the habits of vav.ous Ind.an mseots 
M,..F. S»ith exhibited both sexes of a C,«l.s sent to Mr. Da™,» by Mr. 
alsh. as recorded in the last „n»ber of this Mag<»ine (vol. V, p. -OS .Co.. 
„i„gthis most interesting discovery wc give the foliow.ug extract fon, M,. 
•alsh's paper in the " American Entomologist " for Febroar,, 1869 :- 
..The true' Oak-apple.' as it is popnlarlj called, occurs exclus,ve.y upon he 
».g leaves pnt forth, and reaches its i^.11 si.e in a few weeks. J''» J^ "l": 
, which the larva resides, becomes eventually hard and woedy, but the space 
ti: that cell and the externa, skin or rind of the «»'"» "'^^ «— [ 
lled by soft, drab, spongy matter. By the forepart, or m.ddle, - •'"-J "-^ 
^ e Jd female gall-flies {Cynv,. Q..S,o.,if... O.S.) eat the.r way out ef a certam 
lb r-say about a fourth part-of these galls. The remaining larva,. .e dormant 
rmore than two months, when theychangeinte thepupa-state.andsuhse.uent^, 
Lut October, oat their way out in the torn, of gall-Hies (C,».» «.-«.»!««., O.S), 
