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lu conclusion, J should remark that Hieracium sahaudum is a continental 

 species, which fl". horeale closely resembles, if it be not identical with some of its 

 forms. — Peter Inchbald, Storthes Hall, near Hnddersiield, June 8th, 1865. 



Capture of Notodonta hicolora a/nd other Lepidoptera in Staffordshire. 



T have recently been on a successful Entomological tour to Burnt Wood, Stafford- 

 shire, accompauied by my friend, Mr. Charlton ; amongst our captures may be enume- 

 rated the following, viz., Thecla ruhi, Notodonta hicolora (6 specimens), N. chaonia, 

 Lithosia mesomella, Hepialus velleda, Acronycta leporina, Aplecta tincta, Cymatophora 

 duplaris, Angerona prunaria, Eurymene dolohravia, Ephyra pendularia, Asthena 

 hiteata, Macaria notata, Numeria pulveraria, Melanippe hastata, Flatypteryx lacer- 

 tula and falcula, Bypcena crassalis, Phycis carionariella, and a number of other 

 insects. 



Coleoptera were scarce ; we found, however, one specimen of Calosoma 

 inquisitor, running as nimbly as a Cicindela ; Cryptocephalus lineola on birch ; 

 and a few Silpha quadripunctata feeding on dead larvffi of H. defoliaria, a species 

 which was in millions, stripping the trees of their foliage, and making that part of 

 the wood, as far as the eye could reach, desolate as winter ; the larvae were dying 

 of starvation, and, at the base of some of the trees, I could have collected a 

 quart of dead ones ; they hung against the trunks, and from the branches, by 

 silken threads so thickly, as almost to cover ns if we attempted to penetrate into 

 the densest parts of the wood. — Joseph Chappell, 18, Sheffield Street, Hulme, 

 Manchester, June, 1865. 



Entomological Society of London, June 5th, 1865, F. P. Pascoe, Esq., F.L.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Lieutenant E. C. Beavan, of Nagpore, India ; W. Borrer, Esq., M.A., P.L.S., 

 of Cowfold, Horsham, Sussex; G. R. Crotch, Esq., B.A., of 8, Earl Street, Cam- 

 bridge ; W. S. Dallas, Esq., F.L.S., of the Museum, York ; and T. G. Rylands, Esq., 

 F.L.S., of Heath House, Warrington, were elected Members ; and Benjamin Cooke, 

 Esq., of 49, Ardwick Place, Manchester ; J. P. Ransome, Esq., of Ipswich ; and 

 Mr. T. Bruni^on, of Glenarm Castle, Larne, North Ireland, were elected Subscribers 

 to the Society. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark stated that, since the last Meeting, his attention had 

 been called to a passage in Southey's Madoc, in which reference was made to the 

 instantaneously intermittent flashing of the light of fire-flies ; and Mr. Frederick 

 Smith observed that Mr. Gosse, in his Natui'al History of Jamaica, had quoted the 

 lines of Southey, without any indication that the poetic statement was at variance 

 with fact. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark read the concluding portion of his paper on the Phyto- 

 phaga of South Australia. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark had brought, for distribution among the Members, 

 some specimens of one of the Elmidai (forming a new genus), collected by Captain 

 Bowker at the Cape. The insects had been found clinging to stones near 

 waterfalls. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark read a letter he had received from Bahia, from Mr. 

 Edwin Reed, who expected to proceed to Valenza early in May. 



The President read a letter he had received from the Azores, from Mr. Brewer, 

 who had already collected 150 species of Coleoptera at St. Michael. 



