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largor than the others, paler (more testaceous) in colour, and with the wings longer 

 and less obtuse ; the inferior appendages broadly furcate. In Britain, this is probably 

 equally common with No. 1, but is possibly less generally distributed. 



It was gratifying to me to find that a new correspondent (Mr. F. Q-. Binnie, of 

 Glasgow), who informed me that he worked only from boots, had detected the 

 differeuces in the two British species. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham : Uh December, 

 1875. 



Sphinx convolvuli in BertoicJcshire.—On the loth August I netted a fine speci- 

 men of Sphinx convolvuli which was flying over some carnations in a garden. I 

 observed another there about a week after, but only for two or three seconds, as 

 it flew over a high wall and disappeared. Another specimen of this fine moth 

 flew into a draper's shop in a village near there some time ago ; it was sadly worn. 

 On the sign-board of the same shop, one evening in September, an entomological friend 

 of mine caught a most beautiful specimen of the same moth by putting a paper bag 

 under it and pushing it in. That night, as I was walking with my friend down the 

 street of a small town near the same place, we saw a crowd collected before a shop 

 window, and soon found the cause of it. A large Death's Head Hawk Moth 

 (Achero7itia Atrojws) had flown in, been caught by the shopman, and imprisoned in 

 a glass bottle. My friend purchased it, and set it. Though slightly rubbed, still it 

 forms an excellent specimen.— W. Sandison, 43, Govan Road, Glasgow. 



l^uropean and exotic Lepiidopfera. — Dr. Staudinger has sent me a packet of his 

 priced Catalogues for distribution. I shall be happy to send one of these Catalogues 

 to any entomologist who may wish for one. I may observe that it would seem to bo 

 much more sensible to buy a typical continental specimen of Notodonta hicolora for 

 eight pence, than to give four or five pounds for an English specimen of more than 

 doubtful authenticity; but I am aware that tastes differ on this point. — -R.C.R. JouDAN, 

 35, Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham : December 8th, 1875. 



Entomological Society of London: 1st December, 1875. — SirS. S. Safndees, 

 C.M.G., President, in the Chair. 



T. Chapman, Esq., of Glasgow, was elected a Subscriber. 



Mr. Forbes exhibited specimens of Zygcena JilipendulcB in which the usual red 

 spots and hind-wings were changed to yellow. He had bred these, although only 

 one or two appeared among myriads of the ordinary form, and was quite sure that 

 the variation was in every way natural, and not caused by extraneous circumstauc 



Mr. Champion exhibited now or rare British species of Anisotoma : these were 

 already noticed, with others, by Mr. Rye in the December number of the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. 



Jfr. "W. Cole exhibited beautiful drawings of dipterous larvfc found on the shore 

 at Southend ; also the larvfc and perfect insects in spirits. They apparently jicr- 

 tained to the genus Ephedra. 



The President remarked that M. Lichtenstein, of Montpellier, had recently 

 obtained Zonites prcettsta and EucJialcis vetusta from Osmia tridentata, making 

 thirteen parasites known to exist at the expense of that species {cf. ante, p. 71). 



Dr. Burmcister, of Buenos Ayres, communicated a description of a new genus 

 and species of Scarttid<v, under the generic name of Obadins, from the river Uruguay. 



