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angustata, H.-S., new to Britain, which he had captured by 

 sweeping, near Cisbury, Worthing. The insect is rather closely 

 allied to the common Monanthia cardid, L. Mr. M'Lachlan 

 exhibited a species of Halticidaj, which had been sent him by 

 Mr. D. Morris, Assistant Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 who had received them from Mr. J. H. Hart, of the Botanic 

 Gardens, Trinidad, with a note to the effect that they had 

 attacked young tobacco and egg-plants badly in that island. 

 Mr. Jacoby had, with some reserve, given as his opinion that it 

 might possibly turn out to be Epitrix fuseata, Duv., a species 

 which had been described from Cuba. The Rev. H. S. Gorham 

 exhibited a number of beetles lately captured in Brittany, 

 including Diachromus gerinanus, L., Onthophagus iaurus, L., 

 Hister sinuatus, IlL, and other species which are exceedingly 

 rare, or altogether wanting in Britain, and yet occur very 

 commonly in the North of France. Mr. Enock exhibited 

 specimens of the Hessian Fly, bred by himself, and mounted 

 for the microscope. Mr. White exhibited living larvae of 

 Endromis verslcolora, and remarked that when quite young they 

 are nearly black, owing to being very thickly spotted with that 

 colour ; the body-colour is green, and after the second change 

 of skin the spots disappear. Mr. White also exhibited two 

 preserved larvse of Phorodesma smaragdaria, which he had 

 recently taken, and made some remarks concerning the so-called 

 " case " which this insect is said to construct from the leaves of 

 its food-plant, Artemisia maritima. This he did not consider to 

 be really a case, but he had discovered that the larva possessed 

 on its segments certain secretory glands, at the apex of each of 

 which there is a bristly hair ; this appears to retain pieces of the 

 plant, which are probably fixed firmly afterwards by means of 

 the secreted fluid. These pieces are very irregularly distributed, 

 and their purpose is evidently protective. Mr. Lewis exhibited 

 about three hundred specimens of the genera Hetcerius, Er., 

 and Eretmotus, Mars. The most remarkable of these was 

 Hetcerius acutangulus, Lewis, discovered last year by Mr. J. J. 

 Walker near Tangier, and were recently taken by him at 

 S. Roche, in Spain. The names of the other species exhibited 

 are : — Hetarhis hedeli, Lewis, II. punctidatus, Lucas, H. cosmo- 

 sellus, Fairmaire, H.pluristriatus, Fairmaire, H. setidosus, Reitter, 

 Eretmotus sociator, Fairmaire, from Algeria. Hetcerius acutan- 



