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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AKD COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ July 8, 1869, 



mU »nd of the leaTes for oraaraent and thatching, were allnded 

 to; likewise the labonrs of Von Martins in connection with Palms; 

 ftnd Mr. Bateman detailed the circamstances of his first introduction 

 *** j"?' ^^^ conclnded by cxprcssinR a wish that all English botanists 

 and horticnlturists wonld be as kind to foreigners as the latter in- 

 Tariably are to the English. 



At the conclusion of the meeting, speciraens of the pretty Litho- 

 spermnm petrfoum, from Mr. W. Robinson, were exhibited, after 

 vhich the Chairman annonnced that the next General Meeting would 

 U held at Manchester, on the 20th inst., and the following ono at 

 Sonth Kensington, on August 3rd. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. 



The .Tone meeting of the Society was held at Burlington House, 

 the President, Mr. H. W. Bates, being in the chair. Among the dona- 

 tions to the Society's library received since the last meeting were the 

 pubhcations of the Royal and Zoological Societies, and the Natural and 

 Entomological Societies of St. Petersburgb, Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, 

 Leyden. S:c. A new part of the Society's *' Transactions" containing 

 a portion of Dr. Sharp's monograph on the gcnns Ilomalotn, and the 

 fourth part of Mr. llewitson's splendid work on the Butterflies of the 

 family Lycffinidn?, were also on the table. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited a small but very remarkable Coleopterous 

 insect, captured by Mr. Da Boolay at Champion Bay, New Holknd, 

 which seemed to be allied to the Histeridie and Clavigeridre. (It has 

 since received the name of Chlamydopsis striatellus, West.) Mr. 

 Slainton exhibited specimens of a curious new species of Tineina, 

 with large busby polypi, reared by M. Milliere, of Cannes, from 

 Osiris alba, and named by him Paradoxus Osiridellus. Mr. F. Smith 

 exhibited a living specimen of Physonota gigantea, a Beetle of remark- 

 able metallic heanty daring life, but whose colours fade soon after 

 death. It was found in considerable numbers in a cargo of logwood 

 from South America, at Liverpool. Likewise a living specimen of the 

 larva of a Beetle of the genus Pyrophorus (?), which emitte4 a bril- 

 liant green light from the ten spiracles along each side of the body, 

 whilst the head gave forth a bright red light, the intensity of the 

 colours causing Mr. Smith to compare them to the red and green 

 signal lamps of a railway train. It had been communicated to the 

 British Museum by Mr. Lettsom from Maldonado. and had remained 

 alive for two or three months in damp earth without food. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited specimens of Gelechia atrella, the larva of 

 Which resides at first in a moveable case, formed by cutting off and 

 flattening a small portion of the stem of an herbaceous plant, and after- 

 ivards burrows down the stem of Hypericum. 



_ A letter was read from the Secretary of the Flax Improvement So- 

 ciety of Belfast, relative to the injury done to the Flax whilst in the 

 seed leaf by a small Beetle, Thyamis parvula, Pfnihvll, nearly allied 

 to the common Turnip Flea Beetle. 



Professor Westwood exhibited specimens and drawings and read 

 descriptions of several remarkable small Coleopterous insects, chiefly 

 from Western Australia, several of which had been collected by Mr. 

 P. Du Boulay at Swan River and Champion Bay, illustrating the 

 afl&nities of the anomolous genus Ectrephes, Pascoe (Anapestas, Kina) 

 with the Ptinidrp. ^ i- ' JJy 



Mr. Drnce exhibited a collection of Butterflies from Borneo, inclnd- 

 a fine new '^mithoptorus, and other new species. 



IVIr. F. Smith exhibited a parasitic British Bee, Melecta armata, 

 which was infested to so gi-eat an extent with the minute larvre of 

 Meloe, that it wae unable to tly, andwas found struggling in the grass. 

 He also read a memoir containing " Descriptions of new species of 

 the Hymenopterous genus Pison, and a synonymic list of those pre- 

 Tionaly described." The species are nest-builders, the nests resembling 

 those of the genus Pemphredon, and being prorisioned with spiders. 

 The number of species has been raised by Mr. Smith to forty-three, 

 the majority being natives of New South Wales. He also read de- 

 scriptions of some other new genera and species of exotic Hymenoptera, 

 inclading a Methaa from North China. Mr. Charles Home commu- 

 lucated a report made to the Indian Government upon the ravages of 

 the Carpenter Beetle in all parts of India. 



Mr. F. Walker read a note on the habits of certain Chalcidid©, 

 which appear to bo herbivorous instead of parasitic, and on a new 

 species of Megastigmng. 



Major F. Parry read " Observations on Lncanoid Cileoptera, with 

 Remarks on some New Species, and on the Present Nomenclature, 

 accompanied by a Herised Catalogue of the Species ;' and Mr. A. B. 

 Wallace read *' Notes on Eastern Butterflies (continuation— Eurytelidfe 

 and Libytheidie), with Descriptions of various New Species belonging 

 to those Families collected by himself in the Malayan Archipelago." 



PLANTS FLO^^^RING IN JUNE. 



•fane : 



Centaurea candidissima 



Cyanns 

 Pents'tomon ovatnm 

 Centrnnthns ruber 

 Cerartium Biebcrsteini 



tenuifolium 



Juno 2. Cheiranthns alpinus 

 Marshiilli 

 Alyssum saxatile 

 Auchusa italica 

 Festnca glnuca 

 Artemisia dracnncolos 



June 2. Arenaria cxspltosa 

 marina 

 ti 5. Asphodutna ramosos 



lutcna 

 Eryngiara alpinum 

 ciprulenm 

 Boorpati 

 planum 

 Stipa pennatn 

 Erigeron canadensis 



Villarsii 

 Aquilcgln sibirica 

 vulgaris 

 Rlandulosa 

 bicolor 

 alptna 

 Dictflmnus FraiinoHa 

 AgroBtemma flos-Jovis 

 Delphinium Barlowii 

 Henderson! 

 formosum 

 I/Owii 

 chinensc 

 )i 0. Veronica dentnta 

 gcntianoidds 

 incana glauca 

 fmticnlosa 

 saxatile 

 Bpicata 

 Viscaria ^lendens 

 Viola montana 

 tricolor 

 comuta 

 erecta 

 lutea 

 Whitlavin grandiflora 

 Cnrduus Marianas 

 Phlni Drnmmondi 

 Matthiola annua. 

 RoBe, various 

 Gilia tricolor 

 Limnanthos Donglasii 

 Actiea spicata 

 M 12. Coronilla varia 



Astragalus monspessn- 



lanus 

 Astrantia major 

 Dondia EpipactiS 

 Epilobium angustifoliom 

 Antholyza coccinea 

 Dianthus barbatos 

 causing 

 deltoideg 

 Marie Pare 

 fimbriatus 

 Phlox frondosa 

 Nelsoni 

 setacea 

 Rose, Double Yellow Per- 

 sian 

 II II. Adonis ffistivalig 

 autumnalis 

 Pentstemon glabmCQ 



Scouleri 

 Physalis Alkekenpi 

 Pingnicula vulgaris 

 Primula farinosa 

 Alchemilla vulgaris 

 alpina 

 conjnnctfl 

 Beta maritime 

 Betonica stricta 

 Aubrietia purpurc-a 

 pnrpureft varlegala 

 Campbelli 

 Babiana anrnntiaca 

 Bellinm miniatum 

 Achillea Clnvenna? 

 MiUefolium rosea 

 Ptarmica fiore-pleno 

 tomentosa 

 Cynoglossnm montanum 

 Antennaria hypcrborea 

 Crncianclla stvlosa 

 Barbarea vulgaris flore- 



pleno 

 Con<5inia hystris 

 Anlirrblnnma 

 Frntraria vesca varicgflta 

 Galinm verum 



boreale 

 Ajuga reptans alba 

 Goum montanum 



-M. H., Acklam Hall, Middhshrough-07i-Tcc.<. 



June 14. Geum riralo 

 triflurum 

 Glaacium flavuro 

 Hnbenaria blfolia 

 Hedysarum coronariaiZI 

 Polomouiam csrnJcam 



Kichardponii 

 Saponaria oOlcinalifl 



ocymoidcs 

 Verbftscum nfgrmn 

 versicolor 

 TbapHUS 

 Tradoscantia virpinlca 

 Spinea FilipeodoJa 

 Linoria Cymbalaria 

 Mcconophis cambrics 

 Stonactis speciosa 

 Camassia esculents 

 MyosotJB paluHtris 

 atpQstria 

 a7.orica 

 ,1 19. Campanula glomerate 

 grandis 

 latifoUa 

 nitida 

 pumila 

 urtici folia 

 pulla 

 Aconitum Napcllus 

 Catananche cKrulea 



bicolor 

 Chrysospleninm oppOBlti" 



folium 

 Cineraria maritima 

 Convallaria majalia aures 

 Ajuga genevcnsis 

 Allium azuroum 

 Moly 

 striatum 

 Digitalis purpurea 



lutea 

 Helianthomom guttatnod 

 vulgare 

 rotund um 

 Rosy Gem 

 Hemerooallis fnlva 



fiava 

 HespcriB matronalis, dblCi 

 Iris pavonia 

 per^ica 

 pseud-acorus 

 Lathyrus grandifloms 

 Liatris elegans 



spicata 

 Salvia bicolor 

 I, 24. Ljrtbospcrmum purparco* 

 cajruleum 

 Lupinus polyphyUns 

 nanus 

 albus 

 Lychnis dioica 



atocion 

 Melissa grandtflora 

 Menyantbes trifoliatft 

 Jlimulus cuprous 



cardinaliS 

 Nepeta violacea 

 Reseda lutea 

 odorata 

 1, 29. CEuothcra grandiflora 

 Orchis maculata 

 Potentilla alba 

 Symphytum asperrimnm 

 Thymus vulgaris 

 cepbalotes 

 variegata 

 Saxifraga aizoou 

 AndrcwsU 

 densa 

 polita 

 granulata 

 Silene acaulia 

 Ranunculus flamula 

 Omithogalum pynuni* 

 dale 

 umbcllatnm 

 narbonense 

 Potentilla insignis 

 Sisyrincbium striaton] 

 Ibcris coronaria 

 Linum flavum 

 Nemophila insignis 

 Rhododendron hirsntaii) 



PORTR-VITS OF PLANTS. FLOWERS, AND 



FRUITS. 



Dendroeitm DExsiFLonuM vAn.ALBo-LCTEA (White and'yellow 



Dense-flowered Deudrobe). Nat. ord., Orchidace.'c. Linn., Gy- 



nandria Monandria. — Native of the Moulmein forests. — (Bot. 



Mafi., t. .5780.) 



Yacciniom beflexdm (Reflexed-Ieaved Whortleberry). Nat, 



