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Platypteryx ungmcula. — The 25th September being a fine warm day, I went to 

 Epping Forest to search for Peronea umbana and cristana ; having beaten, however, 

 during the whole of the morning without meeting with the former, and but one or two 

 ordinary varieties of tiie latter, I set to work thrashing the beech for the larvae of P. 

 unffuicula, of which, on reaching home, I found I had taken 42, many of them full-grown. 

 — Wm. Machin, Argyle Road, Mile End, October, 1864. 



Entomological Society of London, October 3rd, 1864. — F. P. Pascoe, Esq., 

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



The Secretary exhibited the collection of insects sent from India for the Society 

 by Lieut. Beavan ; among them were some interesting species. 



Mr. D. Sharp sent for exhibition three new species of British Coleoptera col- 

 lected by himself in Scotland : 1st, Aiotalia puncticolUs (new to science), of which he 

 had taken four specimens at Eannoch ; 2nd, Tachinus proMmus of Kraatz, found in 

 sheep's-dung at Rannoch, and under similar circumstances on Ben Lomond ; 3rd, 

 Lesteva monticola of Von Kiesen wetter, taken at Eannoch, and in the Isle of AiTan. 



Mr. Janson exhibited a collection of insects made by an officer in the navy on 

 the Biazihan Coast, from Rio to Monte Video. 



Tiie President exhibited a species of the singular Coleopterous genus Atracto- 

 cerus, from Australia, A. Krensleri, and remarked that representatives of this genua 

 were found in most parts of the globe. Mr. Wallace remarked that he used to find 

 them in the tropics at night, flymg rather rapidly round his lamp. 



Mr. Waterhouse said that the alhed European species were all flying insects, 

 the larssB of which fed in the heart-wood of trees. 



Major Parry sent for exhibition a collection of insects made by his son, Lieut. 

 Parry, in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a species of Curculionidce with numerous fungoid growths 

 (SphcBrioe) protruding fi-om various parts of its body. 



Mr. Wallace mentioned that he had seen large numbers of beetles, chiefly 

 CwrcuUonidce, similarly afiected in damp tropical localities in the east ; he had never 

 found a living insect so attacked, they were always dead and sticldug to twigs, &c. 



Mr. Bond, in mentioning the immense damage done to turnips, celery, &c., 

 by Agrotis larvse, remarked that when out shooting a short time previously, ho had 

 shot a partridge, the crop of which contained several full fed Agrotis larvaj. 



The Rev. Hamlot Clark (on the part of Mr. Stainton, who was unavoidably 

 absent,) made an appeal to the members on behalf of Mr. W. Winter, late of Aldeby, 

 who has been reduced to great distress through long continued ill-health. Mr. 

 Clark would be glad to receive any donations the members might be pleased to 

 give for Mr. Winter's relief. 



Mr. Baly read a paper on new genera and species of Phytophaga. 



Part. I of vol. 3 of the third series of the Transactions, containing the com- 

 mencement of Mr. Pascoe's " Longicornia Malayana," was on the table. 



A Note. — In my paper on the Egg State (page 65) I omitted to mention that the 

 best clue to the whereabouts of the eggs of many species, more particularly of 

 Buttetf.ics, is afibrded by watching the movements of the females at large, as they 

 flit from plant to plant, depositing their ova. — H. G. Knaggs. 



