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signs of vitality. It is worthy of remark that yoaterday after aljout uoontide the 

 weather was calm, scarcely a breath of air stirring towards evening, but that during 

 the night and this morning it has been more or less windy, so that, although numbers 

 of aphides reached our shores uninjured, the bulk of them were destroyed by im- 

 mersion. The case seems to me the more interesting and extraordinary because, 

 some time since, my friend, Mr. Hopley, narrated to me in graphic language the 

 fact of his having met with myriads of the common lady-bird under precisely simila/r 

 circumstances (a by no means unusual occurrence, I believe), and two conclusions 

 naturally force themselves upon me, namely, that aphides migrate in such prodigious, 

 quantities as to account for their vast periodical assemblage here in England in 

 certain seasons, and that in all probability the instincts of their natural de- 

 stroyers prompt them to follow. — H. G. Knaggs, Bournemouth, July lith. 



Entomological Society of London, September 5th, 1864. — F. P, Pascoe, Esq. 

 F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary exhibited some larvEe of Agrotis exclamationis (?), which had 

 been sent to him from Yorkshire, where they were doing much damage to the 

 turnips. Professor Westwood observed that he had suffered much this season from 

 their ravages in his own garden, and as many as twenty-nine had been counted at 

 one turnip. 



Mr. E. W, Janson exhibited four new species of British Ooleoptera which had not 

 been hitherto recorded : — 1st, Euryvsa sinitata of Erichson, taken in Oxfordshire 

 by the Rev. A. Matthews ; 2nd, Leptusa analis of Gyllenhal, captured in August 

 in the Black Forest, Perthshire, by Mr. D. Sharp ; 3rd, Aleochara spadicea of 

 Erichson, taken by Mr. Brewer in Cumberland in the autumn of 1863 ,j and 4th, 

 Homalota nntha of Erichson taken by Mr. Brewer amongst rejectamenta on the 

 Medway. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited an extensive collection of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, 

 which had been made in Syria by Mr. Lowue, principally in the months of April 

 and May. Among them was one Chrysophanus apparently new. Mr. Lowne 

 remarked that in the summer mouths insects became very scarce in Syria. 



Mr. Tegetmeier called attention to the numerous errors of observation 

 which had appeared in the letters recently published in Tloe Times, signed 

 " A Bee Master," and mis-statements which showed that the writer had very 

 little knowledge of the literature relating to bees. Professor Westwood said that 

 the Members of the Society must all agree with him in feeling extremely obUged 

 to Mr. Tegetmeier for the able and masterly way in which he had refuted the 

 inaccuracies of the Tiines correspondent. 



A paper by Mr. Hewitson was read, in which six new species of Butterflies 

 were described. 



A letter from Lieut. Beavan, of Barrackpore, was read, stating that he had 

 forwarded insects from Maumtrom, for the collection of the Society, and a paper 

 from him was then read, on the Tusseh silkworm. 



Professor Westwood read a paper with descriptions of Sagrides and Megalopides 

 of the Old World and Australia. 



Rev. Hamlet Clark read a paper on Scheinatiza, a genus of Qalerucidie. 



