THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
May 4th. W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., 
President, in the Chair. 
Herr Dohrn and Dr. Hagen honoured 
the meeting wilh their company. 
Exhibitions. 
Mr. Stevens exhibited Endromis versi- 
colora, Petasia nubeculosa , and other cap- 
tures of Mr. Foxcroft, in Perthshire, a 
bred specimen of Notodonta Carmelita, 
and Heteerius sesquicornis, from nests of 
Formica fusca at Hampstead. He also 
exhibited specimens of a species of Pieris 
from Lombok and an adjacent island, 
showing marked differences attributable 
to climatic causes. 
Dr. Power exhibited the recent results 
of his usual untiring industry, among 
which were a new British Chlccnius, C. 
Schrankii, and Sunius fill for me, from 
Brighton, Amara rufocincta and A. in - 
fima from Deal, Drypta emarejinata from 
Alverstoke, Heteerius sesquicornis from 
Hampstead, Tragophlceus scrobiculatus 
from Hammersmith, &c., &c. 
Mr. Wollaston exhibited Homccusa 
acuminata , several of which rarity he had 
just taken near Farnborough, Kent. 
Mr. Smith exhibited the unique spe- 
cimen of Tropideres sepicola, Herbst. 
taken by Mr. Plant near Leicester, and 
now presented to the British Museum. 
Mr. Westwood exhibited the skeleton 
of a large Lepidopterous insect supposed 
to be Acherontia Atropos, found in one of 
his bee-hives partly imbedded in one of 
the combs. He also exhibited a monster 
flea, twenty times larger than the human 
flea, which was found in a bed at Gates- 
head, and sent to him by Mr. Bold. He 
proposed for this beauty the name of 
Pulex imperalor. 
Mr. Robinson exhibited a drawing of 
the larva of Polyommatus Artaxerxes. 
Mr. Bond and the Rev. W. H. 
Hawker exhibited bred specimens of 
Mixodia Hawkerana, the larva of which 
feeds on Euphorbia Paralias. 
Major Vardon exhibited some insects 
brought by Dr. Livingston from the in- 
terior of Africa — an Ixodes which gets 
between men’s toes, causing great pain 
and swelling of the feet and limbs, to 
which fever succeeds and sometimes 
death, — a caterpillar with the liquid from 
the inside of which the Bushmen poison 
their arrows, — an insect like a Coleop- 
terous larva, which buried its head in 
sand and porrected its tail, with which it 
amused itself by catching luckless ants 
•which were attracted to it, conveying 
them by its means to its mouth, — and 
some other interesting forms. 
Mr. Janson exhibited Myrmica cog- 
nata and Atemeles emarginala from ants’ 
nests at Hampstead, also Ampedus sub- 
carinatus from the same locality. 
Papebs. 
Mr. Smith read an extract from Mr. 
R. Grant in Canada West, giving some 
account of his entomological experience 
there. Among other things he stated 
how pleased he was to see many insects 
quite, or nearly, identical with those of 
England, and how strange it seemed to 
him to see butterflies flying about bushes 
when the sun shone, although the ground 
was covered with snow. 
Read also, a paper by Mr. Newman on 
the subject of the occurrence of barren 
females among insects. 
And a note, translated by Mr. Douglas, 
from Guerin’s ‘ Magasin de Zoologie,’ on 
the economy of Trachys pygmcca , the 
larva of which feeds in the leaves of a 
Malvaceous plant. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The Substitute ; or , Entomological Ex- 
change Facilitator, and Entomologist’s 
Fire-side Companion for 1856 — 7. 
London : E. Newman, 9, Devonshire 
Street. Cloth, price 5s. 
During the six months recess we 
allowed ourselves, the work above-men- 
