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Atherix ibis in Shropshire. — While wading and fishing in one of 

 the Shropshire brooks, in June last, I found a cluster of the flies A. ibis 

 attached to a dead willow branch overhanging the stream, which at that 

 point was flowing slowly. — C. R. Blathwatt, West Ashby Vicarage. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — August 1th, 1889. — The Right 

 Honourable Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 

 The Rev. John Walley, of Wuhu, China, was elected a Fellow: Professor 

 Charles V. Riley, of Washington, United States, was elected an Honorary 

 Fellow in place of the late Dr. Signoret, of Paris ; and Colonel Swinhoe 

 and the Rev. F. D. Morrice were admitted into the Society. Mr. Walter 

 F. Blandford exhibited a specimen of Cardiophorus cinerem, Herbst, 

 taken at Tenby, and remarked that tlie species had rarely, if ever 

 previously, been found in the United Kingdom. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse 

 said he believed that there was a specimen in the collection of his late 

 father, and also another specimen in the collection of the British Museum. 

 Mr. Waterhouse stated that the British Museum had just received from 

 the Rev. Arthur Elwin, of Hangchow, China, a luminous larva, about 1^ 

 in. long and 3^ lines broad, which he believed to be one of the Lampyridae. 

 Lord Walsingham exhibited specimens of Conchylis degreyana, M'Lach., 

 bred from seed-heads of Plantago lanceolata at Merton, Norfolk; also 

 a specimen of Tineidae allied to the genus Solenobia, probably belonging to 

 Dissoctena, Stand., but differing somewhat in the structure of the antennae. 

 Lord Walsingham remarked that the specimen was taken by himself at 

 Merton on the 31st July last, and that the species was apparently 

 undescribed. Mr. Meyer-Darcis exhibited a collection of Coleoptera, 

 comprising specimens of a species of Loethrus from Turkestan ; Julodis 

 globithorax, Stev., from the Caucasus ; a new species of Julodis from 

 Kurdistan ; Cardiaspis mouhoutii, Saunders, from Sikkim ; Carabus 

 smaragdinus, Fisch., from Siberia; Julodis ampliata, Mars., from Aintab, 

 Asia Minor, and a variety of the same from Kurdistan ; and Julodis 

 luteogramma, Mars., from Syria, and a variety of the same from Kurdistan. 

 Mr. H. Goss read extracts from letters from Mr. R. W. Fereday, of New 

 Zealand, and Sir John Hall, K.C.M.G., relating to a number of Lepidoptera 

 recently collected at sea, about half way between the River Plate and Rio, 

 at a distance of over 250 miles from land, in about 30° S. lat. and 46° W. 

 longitude. It was stated that the ship was surrounded by swarms of 

 moths. Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., observed that he had seen a large number 

 of insects at sea about 150 miles off" the coast of Brazil, and he referred to 

 other records of the capture of insects at sea in Darwin's ' Voyage of the 

 Beagle,' and Dr. Coppinger's ' Cruise of the Alert.' The discussion was 

 continued by Dr. Sharp, Lord Walsingham, Mr. White, Mr. Kirby, and 

 others. Mr. E. Meyrick read a paper, entitled "On some Lepidoptera 

 from New Guinea," and exhibited the species therein described. He 

 stated that the specimens were derived from two sources, viz. (1), a portion 

 of the collection received by the Society from Baron Ferdinand von Miiller, 

 F.R.S., and collected by Mr. Sayer when accompanying the Australian 

 Geographical Society's Exploring Expedition ; and (2), a number of speci- 

 mens collected by Mr. Kowald near Port Moresby, and obtained from him 



