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few friends and fellow Naturalists. His lofty religious and moral aims, seconded by 

 a peculiar ability for educational purposes, marked him, from early youth, as one 

 who would take foremost rank in that scholastic army which in Scotland especially 

 is recruited from men with the soundest brains and strongest principles. How well 

 he fulfilled that promise, is recorded in the Annals of the Glasgow Normal Seminary, 

 the Free Church Training Schools, and Blair House Academy, Polmont, in all of 

 which his work, for nearly 50 years, was marked by earnest zeal and large-hearted 

 sympathy. Mr. Hislop was born at Dunse in 1815 ; his eldest brother, the Rev. 

 Alexander Hislop, is known in Scotland as a writer on religious subjects ; and 

 another brother, the late Rev. Stephen Hislop, of Nagpore, contributed many papers 

 to our knowledge of the Geology of Central India. 



Entomological Society of London.— July 7th, 1880. J. W. Dunning, 

 Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Douglas sent for exhibition a $ example (possibly hibernated) of Noctua 

 c-nigrum, captured on the 27th June. 



Mr. Phipson exhibited a very remarkable variety of Vanessa cardui, taken last 

 year near Basingstoke. 



Mr. Billups exhibited a dead larva of Plusia chrysitis which had been infested 

 by 120 examples of a parasitic Hymenopterous insect. 



Mr. Distant exhibited a very fine example of the so-called vegetable-caterpillar 

 of New Zealand (larva of Hepialus virescens with the fructification of Sphczria 

 Rohertsi). 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited sugar-cane from Queensland much damaged by the 

 larva of a Lepidopterous insect, apparently allied to that (or those) from Brazil, the 

 West Indies, Mauritius, &c, noticed by Fabricius, Guilding, and Westwood, and 

 also to that recently exhibited by Miss Ormerod from British Guiana. 



Mr. W. F. Rirby called attention to the description and figure of Pyralis 

 saccharalis, F., published in the Skrif. af Naturh. Selskabet in 1794, and to Guenee's 

 long account in Maillard's "Notes sur l'ile de Reunion," in which "Borer" was 

 used as a generic term. 



Mr. Distant said the " borer " of Madras was not the same as that described by 

 Guilding. 



Miss Ormerod read "Additional Notes on Cane-Borers," with especial reference 

 to Tomarus bitulerculatus, Sphenophorus sacchari, and Rhyncophorus palmarum, in 

 concluding which she alluded to more recent reports on the Lepidopterous borer of 

 the Mauritius, and offered suggestions for combating the ravages of the insect 

 enemies of the sugar cane. 



Mr. Roland Trimen sent notes on an observation of Colonel Bowker, of Natal, 

 on a butterfly (Salamis anacardii, L., $ ) in copula with a moth (Aphelia Apollinaris, 

 Bdv., $ ), the two insects much resembling each other. Also " Notes on a supposed 

 ? of Dorylus helvolus, L.," dug out from the nest of a small red ant, near Cape 

 Town. 



Mr. Sidney Churchill, of Teheran, communicated lengthy " Notes on the habits 

 of Argas persicns, and the effects of its bite." 



