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1874.] 183 



Some entomological errors in Cryptojamie Botany. — The Rev. M. J. Berkeley 

 has kindly furnished mo with the following notes : — 



1. The pedunculate eggs of Chrysofa are figured and described by Corda in Sturm's 



Deutschlands Flora, vol. iii, p. 59, tab. 30, as a fungus, under the name 

 Crateromyces caudatus, and the figure is reproduced (in miniature) in the 

 Anleitung zum Studium der Myeologie, tab. C. 



2. The cottony filaments of Adelges Dayi {Aplddci) have been described by Fries 



as Psilonia nivea. 



3. The eggs of Rhipignathiis (a genus of Acari) form the genus Atractoholus of 



Fries. 

 — E. McLachlan, Lewisham : IMh Becemler, 1873. 



Rejoinder to the " Notes on a British hug." — I regret very much to be com- 

 pelled to deny, for the second time, the charges brought against me by Mr. Saunders, 

 viz., that I have named specimens (of one insect) in our collections uuder two names, 

 and that the two insects named and described by me belong to one and the same 

 species. Neither of these statements is correct ; and, had Mr. Saunders applied to 

 me for a sight of the species I described, if he could not understand my descriptions 

 or make the species so described agree with those of the authors whose works it is 

 to be presumed he possesses, he would, as on former occasions, have found them at his 

 service. Next, because I have accepted Fieber's opinion in preference to either that 

 of Meyer-Diir or Mr. Saunders, he steams away into other waters to show that 

 Fieber was not infallible. Is Mr. Saunders infallible, may I ask ? To the instances 

 he cites of the great errors committed by that author, he might have added that they 

 were pointed out by myself to him some years ago ; and one of them, viz., that of 

 Lopus carinatus, was so named for me by Dr. Barensprung. It is a pity that this 

 Magazine should be occupied with matters which might have been so easily settled 

 elsewhere. — John Scott, 37, Manor Park, Lee : December, 1873. 



[This correspondence must now cease. — Eds.]. 



6I)ituarm 



Charles Campbell. — We are requested to notice that this well-known Man- 

 chester entomologist died on the 3rd December last. For many years he was 

 Secretary of the Manchester Entomological Society. 



Entomological Society of London, I'Jth November, 1873. — Prof. Westwood, 

 President, in the Chair. 



C. W. Dale, Esq., of Glanvilles' Wootton, Sherborne, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Higgins exhibited two bred examples of Deilephila euphorbia (one a 

 remarkable variety), and a Sphinx pinastri, which he was assured all came from the 

 vicinity of Harwich, in June, 1872. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a curious variety of Arge Galathea, Leucania l-album, 

 and Cerastis erythrocephaJa, said to have been captured by Mr. Parry near Canter- 

 bury, and an Acontia Solaris said to have come from Dover. 



Mr. Champion exhibited the bred example of Pachnobia alpina from Braemar 

 recorded in our No. for September, ante p. 88 ; also Uarpalus 4-punctatus, Dcj., 

 from Braemar; Anisotoma macropus, Kye, from Claremont ; A. jmllens, Germ., 

 from Deal ; Liusomus troglodytes, Kye, from Faridiaia ; and L. obloiigulus, Boh. 

 from Caterham. 



