1874.] ()9 



men was to be seen ; we could only accuiuit for it by the fact that the weather had 

 become colder and the ground damp ; but do what we would, neither of us could find 

 a specimen. Next day I returned home. Other ie/^ic?o^^era were plentiful; Apatura 

 Iris was not uncommon about the oaks in one place ; and Pterophorus rhododactyJus 

 ♦ 'ccurred about rose. Albulalis is easily disturbed from the grass and low under- 

 wood in (he daytime ; and flies freely, for a short time only, just at dusk, very slowly^ 

 and not far from the ground. Though small, its pale colour makes it very con- 

 spicuous, and the marvel to me is that it has been a rarity for so long. — Geo. T. 

 POHEITT, Huddersfield : July 20tk, 1874. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LoNDON : 1*^ June, 1871. — The Pi-esidcnt in the 

 Chair. 



Mens. Achille Guenee, of Chateaudun, was elected an Honorary IVfembcr in the 

 place of M. Guerin-Meneville, deceased ; and A. Ogier Ward, Esq., of Tutney, was 

 elected a Subscriber. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited winged individuals, larvre, pupse, and soldiers of the 

 wliite ant (Calotennes sp.) recently bred at Kcw from the wood of the copal tree. 



Mr. Stainton read a letter from the Ecv. P. H. Newnham, of Stonehouse, Devon, 

 stating that he had just taken two examples of Deiopeia pulchella on the Cornish 

 side of the river Tamar, and was willing to dispose of them, the proceeds to go to a 

 church-building fund. Mr. Stainton incidentally remarked on the exceptional time 

 of appearance of the insect in this country. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse sent for exhibition a living (immature, though considerably 

 advanced) example of Empusa pauperaia brought from Hyere by the Rev. Mr. 

 Sanders. He had tried to feed it with flies, but without success. Mr. Stainton 

 suggested that a live spider should be placed before it ; he had found this to succeed 

 with an example brought by himself from the south of France. 



Mr. W. D. Gooch, of Natal, communicated a detailed aceount of his experiences 

 with regard to the Longicorn colTce-borcr of that colony, explaining the plans adopted 

 to check the ravages apparently caused by the beetle. Mr. Gooch mentioned that 

 the managers of neighbouring estates informed him that on a north and north-cast 

 aspect they found as much as ninety per cent, of the plants attacked by the larvae, 

 ■whereas, on cold slopes with a south-west and south-east aspect, the insect was not 

 present, although the mortality in the plants was about the same. Any suggestion 

 as to the destruction of insectivorous birds was useless in this case, because no birds 

 were destroyed. Dr. Honi (of Philadelphia) stated that European conifers, limes, 

 &c., planted in a public park in Philadelpliia, were all killed by the larva) of native 

 species, though apparently in a healthy condition, and native trees were not per- 

 ceptibly affeclcd. Mr. McLachlan reiterated that, according to the observations of 

 Eui'opean entomologists, the majority of the European species do not attack living 

 healthy wood. 



Mr. Butler communicated a paper on new species and a new genus of Diurnal 

 Lepidoptera m the collection of Sir. Druco. 



ilr. Smith read a revision of the Hymenopterous genera Cleptes, Parnopes, 

 Pyria, Anlhrocia.i, and Slilbiiim, combining also new exotic species of Chrysis. 

 The genus Anlhravias formed a subject of special interest, because no one had, 

 apparently, recognised it since Klug published his brief generic characters ; but Mr. 

 Smith had found an example among a series of Parnopes cornea that formerly 

 belonsierl to ;\rr. Sliueknrd. 



