250 [March, 



take three specimens this year in wood paths (August 6th) ; I took a single speci- 

 men some years ago. Cocliylis stramineana and C. inopiana ; I have only met with 

 single specimens of these two species. 



The above is but a meagre list of species, and the more so as so many are repre- 

 sented by single specimens ; I doubt not, however, that a want of perseverance in 

 searching for them may account for this, although I believe the TortricidcB are 

 generally scarce here. — E. N. Bloomfield, G-uestling Rectory : November 'Jth, 1872. 



The New Sugaring Lamp. — In recommending the new Sugaring Lamp in the 

 January No. of this Magazine, I quite unintentionally omitted saymg that the idea 

 originated with Dr. White. I must apologize for this omission. 



It may be quite true that an ordinary tinsmith can adapt the shilling " sponge 

 lamp " to a sugaring lantern, but the circular form is too clumsy, and cannot be made 

 to fit a flat lamp for the pocket. The reservoir in my lamp is quite shallow, flat, 

 with square sides, and slides into a groove just above the match drawer; the ordinary 

 shilling lamp, moreover, has no rack and pinion to raise or lower the tviclc, but is 

 merely furnished with a slide to regulate the flame. 



Finally, my burner, owing to this improvement, gives a larger light than the 

 other, and is exceedingly cleanly to manipulate.^ — Geo. Noeman, Cluny Hill, Forres, 

 N.B. : February, 1873. 



Entomological Society of London. — Annual Meeting, 27th January, 

 1873. — Prof. Westwood, President, in the Chair. 



Tlie following gentlemen were balloted for and elected Members of Council for 

 1873 : Messrs. H. W. Bates, Butler, Grut, McLachlan, Miiller, S. S. Saunders, 

 F. Smith, Stainton, S. Stevens, Verrall, C. O. Waterhouse, "Weir, and Westwood. 



The following Officers for 1873 were subsequently elected, viz. : Prof. Westwood, 

 President ; Mr. R. McLachlan, Treasurer ; Messrs. F. Grut and G. H. Verrall, 

 Secretaries ; and Mr. Janson, Librarian. 



The President read an address on the progress of Entomology during the past 

 year, and the business of the meeting concluded with the usual votes of thanks to 

 the outgoing officers. 



^rd February, 1873. — Heney W. Bates, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. William Cole was elected a Member. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited some Indian Hymenoptera, collected at Nuddea, in the 

 district of Minchindipore (about 80 miles from Calcutta). Amongst them were a 

 new species of Astata, and four or five beautiful species of Nomia. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited the quadrangidar case of the larva of a Trichopterous 

 insect, together with the larva itself preserved in glycerine. These had been placed 

 in his hands by the Rev. A. E. Eaton (who found them in the Dove, a swiftly running 

 stream in Derbyshire), and were supposed to belong to Brachycentrus subnubilus, as 

 the larvae of that species are known to manufacture quadrangular cases ; but some 

 doubt was expressed as to the species. 



Mr. Champion exhibited specimens of a large species of Pulex, found by 

 Mr. J. J. Walker in a mouse's nest in the Isle of Shoppy. Mr. Bird exhibited a 

 specimen of Cerastis erythrocephala, from Dareuth Wood. 



