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On October 8th Mr. Billups sent to me a box which contained some leaves of 

 Tomato {Lycopersicum esculentum) which he had just received from a correspondent 

 whose tomato plants were being ruined by the agency of the insects infesting them. 

 The under-side of the leaves was to a great extent covered with the empty piipa- 

 skins and a few larvse of an Aleurodes ; the leaves were much crumpled and some- 

 what dried, and in consequence the examination of the adherent insects was not 

 easy, but on some of them there remained tubes on the margins, like those of A. 

 vaporariorum, and on tlie dorsum long hair-like tubes (more or less broken) as in 

 that species, so that I have no doubt of its identity. In the box which contained 

 the leaves there were also a few of the perfected insects in bad condition, which had 

 evidently emerged from pupae during the transit. 



The species was first described and figured by Westwood in the " Gardener's 

 Chronicle," 1856, p. 852 (the figure only without name is again given in the same 

 journal, February 13th, 1886, p. 213), from Oonolobus, Tecoma, Bignonia, Aplielan- 

 dra, and Solamim. It was described by Frauenfeld in the " Verhandl. z.-b. Q-esells. 

 Wien," 1867, p. 798, but he does not give the name of the plant on which he says he 

 reared it. It is described and figured by Signoret in the " Ann. Soc. Ent. France," 

 4 Ser., viii, p. 387, pi- ix, fig. 3, from Salvia splendens and Lantana Cammara. All the 

 plants, as well as those now mentioned, are natives of tropical countries, and in northern 

 climates require artificial heat and protection under glass. Belonging, as they do, 

 to several Natural Orders, it is evident the species has a wide range of food-plants, 

 on which, in their cultivated state, at all events, the insects cause great deterioration 

 of growth. — J. W. Douglas, 8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : November 8th, 1886. 



The South London Entomological and Natubal History Society, Oct. 7tk, 

 1886 : E. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. Billups exhibited 

 HcMhrus lancifer, Gr., a species of Hymenoptera new to Britain, taken by him at 

 Walmer in August last. Mr. West (Streatham) exhibited a bred series of Spilosoma 

 fuliginosa, L. Mr. Wellman, examples of second broods of Melanippe tristata, L., 

 Acidalia emarginata, L., A. rusticata, Fb., and A. strigillaria, Hb., all reared from 

 ova. Mr. Jager, Callimorpha Hera, L. (including the variety lutescens. Stand.), 

 taken in the South of Devon ; forms of Bryophila nniralis, Forst., from Dawlish. 

 Mr. J. T. Williams, Eupithecia linariata, Fb., bred from larvse which fed up and 

 emerged in about fourteen days. Mr. South, series of Thera variata, Schiff., from 

 Switzerland, England and Scotland, and contributed notes thereon. Mr. Elisha, 

 Agrotis Ashworthii, Dbl., and Dasycampa rnhiginea, Fb. Mr. Adkin, Lepidoptera 

 from East Sussex, among which were varieties of Lycmna Icarus, Rott., and 

 L. Corydon, Fb., Diasemia literata, Scop., and contributed notes on the latter. 

 Mr. J. J. Weir, a variety of Pyrameis cardiii, L., from Graham's Town ; varieties of 

 Colias Electra, L., from the same locality, showing that the species exhibited a 

 similar dimorphic condition to that which obtains in Colias JEdusa, Fb. Mr. Cooper 

 exhibited a brightly coloured variety of Vanessa urticcB, L. Mr. Sabine, varieties of 

 Papilio Machaon, L., &c. Mr. Weir remarked on certain specimens exhibited by 

 Mr. Sabine, whicli he referred to hybrids between Lycana bellargus and Icarus. 

 Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited two species of Coleoptera from Shirley Heath, 

 viz., Balaninus rubidus, Gyll., and Erirhinus pectoralis, Panz. Mr. T. R Billups, 

 a species of Hydradepkaga, Colymbeles fuscus, L., from which had emerged a 



