1873.] 21 



The capsules yielded me many small larvae, which, later on, became yellow, with 

 reddish-brown diagonal stripes. These I mistook for the larrse of D. cucubali. A- 

 few days ago, one of my pupse yielded me D. conspersa, a species new to this 

 county. The colour is, however, most extraordinary, being nearly black, the 

 orbicular stigma with a central dark spot, and a conspicuous white blotch beneath 

 the stigmata. 



Not having a specimen of D. Barrettii, I am unable to compare my insect with 

 that supposed species ; but it will be interesting should it prove identical with the 

 celebrated Irish insect. — Geo. Norman, Cluny Hill, Forres, N.B. : lUli April, 1873. 



Note on the larva of Xematus rihesii. — About the end of July, 1872, 1 collected 

 a batch of the (apparently) too well known larvae of Neniatus ribesii, and a day or 

 two afterwards they all buried themselves in the soil provided for their use. Towards 

 the end of August, five or six of the sawflles made their appearance, and along with 

 them were two specimens of another and quite distinct species of Nematus, the name 

 of which I cannot satisfactorily determine. I write this note in order to draw the 

 attention of those who may have opportunities of extensively rearing these destruc- 

 tive larva; to this fact, so that the difference, if any, between the two species may be 

 discovered. Snellen van Yollenhoven has reared, from a lot of these larv£B, Nematus 

 albipennis, Hartig, and consequcntlj^ considers it to be a mere variety of ribesii ; but 

 the difference between the species in question and it are so great as to preclude such 

 a supposition, and it does not agree with the descriptions of the other Nemaii known 

 to feed on the gooseberry. 



I may here mention that many, if not all, sawflies, after they have left the pupa 

 state, and when their limbs have become firm and dry, evacuate a dirty greenish- 

 coloured liquid. — P. Cameron, Jun., 136, We.^t G-raham Street, Glasgow. 



Entomological Society of London, Zth May, 1873. — H. T. Stainton, Esq., 

 F.R.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



The Marquis Doria, of Genoa, was elected a Foreign Member. 



Mr. Higgins exhibited a specimen of a most remarkable moth, said to pertain 

 to the Sphiiigidse, and recently described by Mr. F. Moore as Langia zeuzeroides. 

 It was from the Himalayas, and had been bred by Major Buckley fi'om a larva 

 feeding on wild apricot. He also exhibited a ? of Goliathus albosignatus fKirki, 

 Westwood) from the Limpopo, being, as he considered, the only kno«^l example of 

 that sex. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited a coloured plate of Butterflies from Turkestan ; this 

 he had been requested to show to English Entomologists as a sample of the manner 

 in which the forthcoming work on the Natural History of Tui-kestan is to be 

 illustrated. The Entomological collections had been chiefly made by M. Alexis 

 Fedtschenko during the years 18G9 — 71. The work is to be published in Russian, 

 with Latin diagnoses. 



Mr. Bates alluded to an insect figured on the plate as Colias Nastes, var. cocan- 

 dica. C. Nastes had hitherto only been found in Lapland (var. WerdandiJ, and in 

 Labrador and Arctic America, and it was a striking instance of the manner in which 

 some species inhabiting the Arctic Regions are found south in Alpine districts, though 

 not in the intervening plains. 



Mr. Miiller alluded to the distribution of Parnassius Apollo, which he con- 

 sidered to exist onlv on the outside of tlie moraines left bv ancient glaciei's. 



