116 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



Core/Ilia ferrugata, C. loiidentata, Scotosia certain, Cidatia siderata, 

 C. silaceata, C. prunata, C. dotafa, Eubolia bipundaria and Anaiiis 

 plagiatn. This list omits the very common insects, and gives a very 

 fair idea of the Macro-lepidopcera to be found here. Though these 

 are no great rarities, yet several of them are good insects. Sidmouth 

 is, I think, a good centre for entomology, and all the woods being open 

 to the public, and there being much moorland, render it a pleasant 

 place for entomologists. In conclusion, I should be very glad to give 

 any help in my power to any one on a visit to the neighbourhood. — W. 

 R. S. Majendie, Hill's Cottage, Sidmouth. 



Newspaper Entomology. — "A terrible story comes from South 

 Algeria. M, Kunckel d'Herculais, an ardent votary of natural history, 

 some time since went to that country to experiment on the phenomena 

 of the breeding of locusts and their periodical and disastrous flights 

 over the fertile regions of North Africa. Yesterday he had been engaged 

 from an early hour in the morning exploring a region where millions 

 of locusts' eggs were reported to have been laid. Towards eleven a.m., 

 overpowered by the suffocating heat, he lay down in the shade of a 

 few shrubs. He fell asleep, and a few hours later his corpse was found 

 under a heap of these loathsome insects. From the examination of 

 the body it is inferred that myriads of locusts had settled on him as 

 he endeavoured to obtain his midday siesta, that he crushed many 

 thousands of them, and attempted to scare them away by firing the 

 bushes in the shadow of which he had taken rest, but that the 

 swarms of locusts gradually suffocated him. This is the first authen- 

 ticated case of such a death, and it has caused a thrill of horror in 

 Paris, where this martyr to Science was well known." — Standard, 

 May \<)th, i8qi. 



Another item is as follows : — " A young man camping in the Sierras 

 discovered and captured a butterfly of an unknown species. He sent 

 it to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, and received for it a 

 cheque for three hundred and eight pounds, with the request to make 

 careful search for other moths of the same kind. It was an individual 

 of a fossil species supposed to be extinct, and great was the excite- 

 ment among the scientists at the discovery that one of the race had 

 been recently alive. Although diligent search has been made by men 

 paid for the service, no other specimen has been found." — J. W. Tutt. 



Stauropus fagi. — I took one specimen of S.fagi while collecting at 

 West Wickham on June 13th, but unfortunately the left upper wing was 

 not properly developed. — W. Bloomfield, 14, Canterbury Road. — 

 July 6ih, 1891. 



Societies. 



Entomological Society of London.— ////>' 15/, i8gi. — Mr. Jacoby 

 exhibited a specimen of a species of Coleoptera belonging to the family 

 Galcrucidic, with the maxillary palpi extraordinarily developed. Canon 

 Fowler, on behalf of Mr. Wroughton, Conservator of Forests, Poona, 

 exhibited specimens of a bug imitating an ant, PolyracJiis spiniger, and 

 of a spider imitating a species oi Miitilla, and read the following notes : — 

 " I have taken a good many specimens of a bug which has achieved a 



