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came and settled on the tree. I left the place, where, evidently, I ought to hare 

 stopped, to search on various plants amongst the undergrowth, and I saw no more 

 of them. Now I come to reflect on my past experience of the insect, I find that 

 wherever I have taken E. tetragonana, there have been rose-bushes about ; I had 

 expected it to have been a stem or root-feeder.-J. B. Hodgkinson, 15, Spring 

 Bank, Preston : February I2th, 1885. 



Correction concerning Scoparia cratcegalis.—l am very sorry indeed to have 

 to correct a rather serious error on page 101 of the present volume of the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. The fact is that all the imagos which emerged from the lichen-feedmg 

 Scoparia larvffi sent me by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher did so whilst I was away from 

 home in the summer, and on my return were worn to shreds, and dead. Mr- 

 Fletcher had written to me that his lots of larv^ had produced Scoparia cratcegalis, 

 and on a close examination of the remnant of mine, I was satisfied they were that 

 species, and should, I think, have believed them to be so, even if Mr. Fletcher had 

 not written to me that his larv£e had produced it. My astonishment may be 

 conceived then, when, a few days ago, Mr. Fletcher wrote, asking me to re-examine 

 my specimens, as he feared he had misled me in saying they were cratagalis, for, on 

 recently placing them in his cabinet, he became doubtful about them, and, indeed, 

 made them out to be lineola. I was then only able to find one specimen, which 

 I was certain had come from those larv^, and though a very worn one, it still 

 seemed to me more like cratcBgalis than anything else ; so 1 at once wrote to Mr. 

 Fletcher, requesting him to send me a couple of his good specimens for examination. 

 He has just done so, and they are, undoubtedly, lineola. It is an unfortunate 

 error, which none can regret more than Mr. Fletcher. In my own copy of the 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. I have crossed out - cratcegalis" from the heading, and written 

 « lineolalis" in its place ; and that seems to me to be the best course to adopt.— 

 Q-EO. T. PoEEiTT, Huddersfield : February 12th, 1885. 



Entomological Society of I^ot^do^ .—December Srd, 1884 : J. W. Dunning, 

 Esq., M.A., F.L.S., in the Chair. 



Baron C. R. Osten-Sacken, of Heidelberg, was elected an Honorary Member, 

 and J. J. Walker, Esq., R.N. (formerly a Subscriber) an Ordinary Member. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited specimens of Goniodoma Millierella, Ragonot, bred by 

 M. Constant from Statiee virgata near Cannes, together with continental G. auro- 

 guttella, F. v. R., from Atriplex laciniata, and British G. limoniella, Staint., from 

 Statiee limonium, for comparison. 



Mr. H. Q-oss exhibited BanTcia argentula from a new locality ; it had been bred 

 by Mr. Brown from a larva feeding on a Poa. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited (on behalf of Mr. Lovett) a collection of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera from the vicinity of Graham's Town in the Cape Colony. 



Mr. Billups exhibited 44 species of Aculeate Hymenoptera from Chobham, cap- 

 tured in 1884, and also a long series of interesting Ichneumonidf^. 



Mr. Olliff exhibited the remarkable Cucujid {Aciphus singularis) described by 

 him in this Magazine, ante p. 152. 



The Rev. L. Bloomfield sent a notice respecting the presumed occurrence of 



