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not successful. Ought 1 to have tried later ? I then thought 

 it was a bad night, and gave up. 



[I believe there is no stated time. It is usual to sugar a 

 great number of trees, and then take the round of them in 

 regular succession every half hour, beginning at dusk ; but I 

 cannot boast of much experience in this matter, not liking 

 night-work. — Edward Newman.] 



Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 



of London. 



December 7, 1874, and January 4, 1875. 



Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the 

 chair. 



British Oak-galls. — Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited some oak- 

 galls of Dryocosmus cerriphilus, Gir., Aphilothrix globuli. 

 Hart., A. albopunctata, Schl., and A. callidoma. Hart.; 

 together with three curious bud-galls, unknown, from Kay- 

 leigh, Essex. 



Hemiplera of the Mediterranean. — Mr. Champion exhi- 

 bited an interesting collection of Hemiptera, brought from 

 the Mediterranean by Mr. J. J, Walker. Amongst them were 

 Trigonosoma Desfontainei, from Cagliari; Phyllomorpha 

 laciniata, from Gibraltar; and Prionolytus Helferi, from 

 Tangier. 



Beetles in Tea. — Prof. Westwood forwarded a letter he 

 had received from Mr. J. F. .M- Harris Stone, accompanying 

 a sample of tea imported from Shanghae, infested by a small 

 beetle, which proved to be Niptus hololeucus, an insect 

 belonging to a genus, the species of which feed indifferently 

 on dried vegetable as well as animal matter. 



[A full account of this beetle, so far as known, appeared in 

 the February 'Entomologist' (Entom, viii. 43). — E. Newman.] 



Phylloxera Vastatrix in Switzerland. — Prof. Westwood 

 also communicated a letter from Prof. Forel, of Lausanne, 

 stating that the Phylloxera Vastatrix had made its appear- 

 ance among some vines at Pregny, in the canton of Geneva, 

 which had been introduced from England into the graperies 

 of Baron Rothschild, and that the Phylloxera had been 



