1900. 1G3 



163. Thanks mainly to the exertions of Messrs. E. D. and E. P. Marquand, the 

 former List is more thin doubled, and 519 species in all Orders are enumerated. 

 No doubt many more remain to be added. It is somewhat curious that over 80 

 species found in Alderney have not been discovered in Guernsey, although the latter 

 island has been so persistently worked by Mr. Luff and others, and probably the 

 only way in which to account for this is the nearer proximity of Alderney to the 

 French coast. No comparison is made with Jersey. We venture to suggest that 

 when a third edition is prepared, the addition of a map of the island would be 

 useful. 



Entomological Society of London: May 2nd, 1900.— Mr. W. L. Distant, 

 Vice-President, in tlie Chair. 



Mr. A. A. Dalglish, of 21, Prince's Street, Glasgow, was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. 



Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited the cocoon, measuring nearly three and a half 



inches each way, of a Coprid beetle — probably belonging to the genus Heliocopris — 



found at Pretoria in the Transvaal. The Rev. Theodore Wood, a specimen of 



Carabus auratus, L., taken in either June or September, 1898, by Mr. Ferrand, of 



Littlefield House, Exmouth, on the Haldon Hills, in the neighbourhood of that 



town. Mr. McLachlan, an example of Rhinocyphafulgidlpennis, Guorin, a brilliant 



little dragon-fly of the sub-family CalopterygincB, a native of Cochin China, which, 



so far as he knew, had not been captured since prior to 1830. It had been in M. 



Guerin's hands, and Mr. McLachlan had received it from M. Ren^ Oberthiir. Mr. 



T. A. Chapman, various specimens illustrating Acanthopsyche opacella ; fresh 



females showing the six nearly complete rings of silky wool with which she is 



clothed ; specimens preserved in cop., showing the exact position of the male moth 



in the female case, and the position of the two moths in relation to the female pupa 



case. It was incidentally mentioned that the inflation of the male abdomen with 



air was observed to be the main force employed in advancing the male abdomen into 



position, and that observation of the immature wing threw considerable light on the 



real neuration in this species. Mr. Barrett, specimens of Heterocera destructive to 



the fruit crops of South Africa. Among them Sphingomorpha Montelronis, Butl., 



known as the Fruit Moth in Cape Colony— a bold and powerful insect, with a 



sucking tongue strong enough to pierce the sound skin of a peach or fig. It seems 



a matter of indifference to the moth whether tlie fruit has fallen, or is on the tree, 



ripe or unripe. With regard to the two species, Achcea Lienardi and Serrodes 



inara they have been extremely abundant, and have been seen at apparently 



uninjured fruit, so that it seems they are capable of equal destruction, and this is 



the more probable, as all tlie species alike are provided with somewhat saw-like 



teeth toward the tip of each section of the sucking apparatus. Several others, 



feeding mainly on damaged fruit, were also taken with the aforesaid species (vide 



ante, pp. 142, 143. — Eds.). Mr. Jacoby, Callomorpha Wahlbergi from Africa, and 



Spilopyra sumptuosa from Australia. A paper was communicated on " New Palse- 



arctic PyralidiDe," by Sir George P. Hampson, Bart. — C. J. Gahan and H. Rowland- 



Bhown, Hon. Secretaries. 



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