82 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



had often noticed that tlie larvae would forsake hides and 

 take refuge in the wooden flooring of a building, but this was 

 probably for pupation, not for sustenance. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a specimen of Bombyx Quercus, 

 in which the colours of the male and female were combined. 



The Hon. T. De Grey exhibited Hypercallia Christierniana 

 (see Proc. Ent. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. xcii), captured between 

 Shoreham and Sevenoaks, in the locality where the insect 

 was a few years ago taken by Mr. W. Farren. Also Acidalia 

 rubricata and Opostega reliquella, ZelL, both taken in 

 Norfolk in 1867 ; see Ent. Ann. 1868, p. 131 : with reference 

 to Mr. Stainton's remarks there published, on the swarming 

 of Opostegsa alaciella ; Mr. De Grey added that he also had 

 found that insect in such considerable numbers together, that 

 the term " swarming" was not inappropriate. 



Sir John Lubbock read the following note from M. 

 Signoret : — "At two recent Meetings mention was made 

 of the Aphis which lives in the galls of the the elm, and it 

 was spoken of as an object almost unknown at the present 

 day, Geoflf'roy, Reaumur, De Geer and Et. Geoffroy (1764) 

 being the only authors cited as having treated of this insect. 

 It would be unfortunate for Hemipterology if that branch of 

 Natural History had since that time fallen into oblivion, but 

 it is not so, and to begin with I have only to cite Mr. Francis 

 Walker, who speaks of it in his List of Homopterous Insects, 

 p. 1049, and who cites some fifteen authors, all of whom 

 describe it more or less at length ; to whom I may add Blot 

 [Mem. Soc. Linn, de Caen, 1824), Hartig (Germai-'s Zeitsch. 

 1841) C. L. Koch (Die Fflanzenlause, 1857), and more 

 recently, Passerini (Aphididffi Italicse, Archiv. Zool. de 

 Modene, 1863.) 



Mr. F. Smith thought that Dr. Signoret had misunderstood 

 his remarks about the galls of the elm ; the fact was that the 

 galls in question had never been noticed in this country 

 before 1866. Mr. M'LacIilan added that he had referred to 

 Geoffroy, Reaumur and De Geer, not as being the only 

 authors who had described the gall, but merely to show that, 

 though new to this country, it had in fact been well known on 

 the Continent for more than a century. 



The Secretary exhibited a spider sent by Lord Cawdor, 

 from Slackpole Court, Pembroke, which was pronounced by 



