1882.] 119 



No Aleurodes has yet been risible on cabbage, strawben-y, honeysuckle, or other 

 plants. I cultivated some plants of Clielidonium majns, on which A. proletella is 

 reputed to swarm, but without the good fortune to have enticed any of this 

 desideratum to come into my garden. 



A brood of Capsus laniarius took possession of a clump of raspberry-plants ; in 

 fact they were born and bred there, and mostly remained, but some of them acted 

 the parts of pilgrim fathers and mothers, and went out not knowing whither, coming 

 to grief, for their carcasses fell by the way. There were also a good many|of Scymnus 

 minimus on the raspberry plants. 



Pilophorus perplexus, usually common, was this season a rarity. 



TyphlocyhidcB, of which in general some species, such as T. rosce and T. quercus, 

 swarm, have been very scarce. 



In August, a Thrips devastated the flowers of Phloxes, and, in a less degree, of 

 the Convolvulus minor : examples are reserved for Mr. Pergande. Strange to say, I 

 have seen no other Thysanoptera. 



Rhizotrogus solstitialis, that ordinarily dances in swarms around the tops of the 

 trees on July evenings, came not then ; in the middle of August, two or three of the 

 belated creatures appeared on the scene and staggered throuj.li their performances 

 alone. 



Lucanus cervus kept not his annual appointment. 



Sitones lineatus, that ordinarily comes in numbers before the sparrows dare to 

 take the green peas for their booty, did not appear at all, although for several con- 

 secutive years peas have been grown on the same ground. Yet, these destroyers 

 might as well have come and have had their share, for their abstention only left the 

 more for the sparrows, which were still not content, but encroached on my pro- 

 portion. The conditions of life of the said sparrows have certainly been favourable, 

 for there are twice as many of them as there were a year ago. 



Some casual visitors — pioneers or lost wanderers, I know not — called, and, 

 having had their external communications cut off, were domiciled under glass. 

 These were : Derephysia foliacea, usually a humble dweller, found ten feet up a 

 cherry tree ; Myrmedonia limhata, Xestobium tessellatum, and Oxyomus porcatus — 

 one of each — alighted on the white stones under the verandah, attracted probably 

 by the colour. 



Of some regular habitues I have previously taken note at pages 67, 88, and 91 ; 

 others I pass over.— J. W. Douglas, 8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : September 

 8th, 1882. 



Entomological Society of London. — July 5th, 1882 : H. T. Stainton, Esq. 

 F.E.S., &c.. President, in the Chair. 



Herr Carl Berg, of the Museo Publico, Buenos-Ayres, was elected a Foreign 

 Member. 



Mons. Jules Lichtenstein exhibited, through Sir Sidney Saunders, specimens of 

 Cerataphis latanice, and communicated some remarks thereon, promising to forward 

 further notes on a future occasion. 



Miss Ormerod exhibited Sitones j>uncticollis, bred fi'ora larvse taken off the roots 

 of clover near Chelmsford ; these larvse began to change to the pupal condition 

 about the 23rd of May, and one developed at the end of that month, six weeks after 



