70 /■ [August, 



Mr. E. P. Collett shewed a specimen of Calosoma sycophanta taken at Margate, 

 and a series of the ? of Athous difformis taken at Gruestling, by Eev. E, N. 

 Bloonifield, this being the rare sex of this beetle. 



Mr. Kirby exhibited drawings from Mr. Grooch of a species of MymariclcB, reared 

 from Coccus off St. Michael's oranges, and a series of drawings of saws of Ten- 

 thredinidce. 



Mr. Billups shewed the new British species of Trichopteryx, described in the 

 last number of this Magazine {ante p. 35), and also a nest of a species of Felopoeus, 

 taken from a hogshead of tobacco.' Mr. Kirby observed that the British Museum 

 had a similar nest attached to a head of maize. 



Mr. Olliff exhibited the larva of a Coleopterous insect, mentioned by Mr- 

 Darwin, in " Nature," as having been found in an encounter with an earthworm. Mr 

 Billups and Mr. Distant thought such encounters were far from rare, and Dr. Sharj 

 said he had kept Cyhister larvae alive for some time on chopped earthworms, and Mr 

 Billups had done the same with Carabus auratus. Mr. Cole thought this mighl 

 throw some light on the later stages of some of the parasites which existed in th( 

 earthworm in their earlier life, and which had, hitherto, been looked for in birds 



Mr. H. T. Stainton sent a note pointing out that the gooseberry caterpillar hacij 

 been reported in one of the Scotch newspapers as feeding on hlacJc currant in Perth 

 ehire, 



Paper read — Further additions to Mr. Marshall's Catalogue of IchneumonidcB, bj 

 J. B. Bridgman. Mr. Fitch exhibited specimens of some of the species describee 

 therein, and pointed out the great dissimilarity between Cryptus pygoleucus, Grr., anc 

 Agrothereiites Hopei, which are united by Mr. Bridgman as $ and ? of the samn' 

 species. I 



The President enquired if any of the members had been present at the meetinjii 

 lately held on trinomial nomenclature. Dr. Sharp replied that he had been therel 

 a discussion then ensued on the subject, in which the general feehng of the Societ; 

 appeared to be adverse to giving a distinctive name to every variety. 



ON THE VERY INTERESTINa, BUT LONQ OVERLOOKED, 

 DACTYL OTA KINKERELLA. 



BY H. T. STAINTON, F.R.S. 



First captured in Holland in 1865, it was not described till 1876 

 but since then it has achieved considerable notoriety ; and probabb 

 most European collections of Micro-Lepidoptera now possess the insect 



It most likely occurs on all the coast sand-hills of Northern Europd 

 The perfect insect is so like EJachista rufocinerea that it would scarce!' 

 be possible to distinguish it, either when at rest, or when runnim 

 about in the net ; but the inner margin of the anterior-wings is moD 

 uniformly sprinkled with dark scales than in E. rufocinerea (whi(| 

 generally has the inner margin pale), and the base of the costa i 

 these wings is more rounded (more high-shouldered one might say) 



