22 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



brown and bottle-green ; and the lateral ornamentalibn is 

 sometimes varied with a darker ground colour, encroaching 

 on and almost eclipsing the paler markings. It feeds on Cal- 

 luna vulgaris (common ling), and I have found it full-fed in 

 July and again in September. I am indebted to Mr. Wellman 

 for a bountiful supply, still vigorous at the beginning of 

 October. The moth appears en the wing twice in the year, 

 in May and August. This species affords an excellent 

 instance of the folly of copying descriptions of larvae from 

 foreign works ; Guenee observes that it has been travestied 

 by Esper, Treitschke and Duponchel, the first of whom de- 

 scribes it as having angulated segments like Batis ; the others 

 supply it with salient quadrangular spines. We happily live 

 in an age which is rectifying such errors as these, and the 

 labours of Guenee, Milliere, Hellins, Buckler and Crewe, will 

 shortly supersede the fictions which have so often been 

 accepted as truths. It is, however, to be regretted that my 

 friend Doubleday, who stands at the head of all observers, 

 ancient or modern, publishes so few of his observations : 

 ever willing to impart his knowledge verbally, he rarely gives 

 it to that world of Entomologists in a form to be universally 

 useful. — Edwai'd Newman. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London. 



November 4, 1867. — Professor Westwood, Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited, on behalf of Mr. B. Cooke, two 

 examples of gynandroraorphism. The first, a sawfly, Dolerus 

 madidus of Klug, the left-hand side presenting male charac- 

 ters, the right side female characters. The second, a Tri- 

 chopterous insect, Limnephilus striola of Kolenati, in which 

 the palpus, antenna and wing on the right-hand side were of 

 the male form, and on the left side of female form, whilst the 

 abdomen was wholly female : this specimen was captured by 

 Mr. Cooke near Manchester. 



Mr. Bond exhibited three recent additions to the list of 

 British Lepidoptera, namely, Psyche crassiorella of Bruand, 

 GraphoHtha ravulana of Herrich-Schasffer (exhibited at a 

 previous Meeting, but then unnamed), and Coccyx vernana 

 of Knaggs. 



