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and then I thought it might be a Tinea ; however, it had not the long body or under- 

 wings of a Tinea, so off it goes to my friend Mr. Stainton, to whom we all have 

 recourse in our difficulties, and he writes to me, thus : " your insect is Trifurcula 

 " pallideUa, Zeller ; my specimens are from Vienna ; it seems to be a rarity on the 

 "continent." — J. B. Hodgkinson, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : December 9th, 1879. 



Occurrence of Ephestia passulella in Lancashire. — During the month of 

 November I have been setting a number of an Ephestia new to me, but as I 

 thought my friend Mr. C. Q-. Barrett had once sent me specimens like those I was 

 taking, I pinned a few and sent them to him, and he named it as above, and was 

 glad I had turned it up in another locality. — Id. 



Elachista monticola in Lancashire. — I have turned up this species in plenty at 

 Dutton ; now comes the question, has it to be alprnella of Edleston, or monticola ? 

 It appears to me alpinella will go a long way back, if any one will look at Morris's 

 figure of alpinella by Grregson they will soon see it is the veritable monticola; I 

 may add C. S. Grregson made the drawing from Edleston's specimen. — Id. 



Entomological Society of London. — November ?>th, 1879. H. W. Bates, 

 Esq., F.L.S., &c., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. T. R. Billups, of Peckham, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Stainton read letters from Lord Walsingham, in which the latter explained 

 that it was purely with a wish to aid the Society that he had offered the prizes for 

 essays on the life-histories of certain Entozoa, through it. He considered the other 

 societies named in Mr. McLachlan's and Mr. Stainton's remarks at the last Meeting 

 were able to afford to offer such prizes without extraneous aid. Moreover, it was 

 possible the parasites might, in an intermediate stage, live in the larvse of insects. 



Mr. Stainton thought that Lord Walsingham had simply been led into an error 

 of judgment, and compared the present case to that of some one, actuated by a desire 

 to further science, offering a prize for an essay on chlorine to the Eoyal Astronomical 

 Society, instead of to the Chemical Society. 



The Chairman said the Council had not considered it necessary to alter its 

 decision. 



Mr. McLachlan said it had become necessary that he should again refer to the 

 " sculptured " stones on the shores of the Swiss Lakes, in consequence of a com- 

 munication received from Prof. Forel, who distinguished sevei'al kinds of sculptures, 

 but maiuly concentrated in two forms, on stones covered with chlorophyllous and 

 incrustating AlgcB respectively. On the former the markings due to the agency of 

 Trichopterous larvse occurred, on the latter the scidpturings were much deeper, and 

 owing (in his opinion) to the continued action of insect-larvse, worms, mollusks, 

 &c., by forcing pathways through the Algce. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited drawings of the egg-masses and young larvse of a 

 Trichopterous insect, deposited on leaves, in connection with Mr. McLachlan's notes 

 in the November No. of the Ent. Mo. Mag. ; also of various Heteropterous Hemiptera 

 in the Hope collection. With reference to Mr. C. O. Waterhouse's remarks at 

 the last meeting, on the affinities of Pulyctenes, he said that the structure of the 

 mouth-organs, &c., proved that the insect was Hemipterous, as also did the metamor- 

 phoses. 



