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Entomological Society, October 4,—Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., vice-president, in the chair.—M. Alfred Preudhomme de Borre, secretary of the Belgian Entomological Society, was elected a foreign member.—Mr. Bond exhibited varieties of Hepialus humuh and Epunda lunulenta, and also specimens of the new Tortrix (Sericoris irrinuana), all taken near Loch Laggan by Mr. N. Cooke.—Mr. Forbes exhibited a weevil (evidently not indigenous to Britain) taken alive among some orchids at Highgate. Mr. Pascoe pronounced it to be a species of Cholus, a South American genus, for which he proposed the name of C. Forbesii,—Mr. W. Cole exhibited numerous bred specimens of Eunomos angularia, showing differences in coloration according as the larvæ had been fed on oak, hawthorn, lime, or lilac.—Mr. Enock exhibited microscopic slides containing some beautiful preparations of minute species of Hymenop-tera.—Mr. Frederick Smith communicated “Descriptions of new species of Cryptoceridze belonging to the genera Cryptocerus, Meranoplus, and Cataulacus,” accompanied by figures of the several species. The author gave some interesting particulars relative to the habits of these insects, especially of Meranoplus intrudns, which constructs its formicariurn in the thorns of a species of Acacia. These thorns were some 4 or 5 inches in length, and at a distance of about half an inch from the pointed end, a small round hole was made for ingress and egress to and from the nest. The thorns contained a kind of spongy pith in which the channels and chambers of the nest were constructed. —A catalogue of the British Hemiptera (Heteroptera and Homoptera) compiled by Messrs. J. W. Douglas and John Scott, published by the Society, was on the table.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 14, 563–564 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014563a0
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