110 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



over the cliffs, and occasionally coming within reach of the 

 solitary watches, is stopped on his wild dash ; the shade 

 deepens, and Velleda and Porcellus, Venosala and thePlusias 

 successively come to feed ; at last, when the fixed gaze on ihe 

 white flowers has become painful from its intensity, the first 

 blue-winged caesia softly alights on the Silene ; then suddenly 

 the air is alive with moths, and he must be a cool entomologist 

 who does not find his pulse beat high with excitement for the 

 next twenty minutes: by a quarter-past 10 all is over, the 

 moths cease to arrive or are invisible in the darkness, and the 

 collector may descend as best he can from his elevation 

 without damage to his bones, or still more carefully guarded 

 pill-boxes. We devoted a day to the exploration of the 

 southern extremity of the island : the majestic sea-cliffs of 

 Spanish Head are the resort of innumerable sea birds, but 

 entomologically the ground is barren. Mr. Hutchinson picked 

 up a solitary larva of Lithosia caniola : as this insect is 

 extremely local at Howth, it may prove to be equally abun- 

 dant in the Isle of Man when its head-quarters are dis- 

 covered. 



Species captured : — Choerocampa Porcellus, Sesia Philan- 

 thiformis, Hepialus velleda, Setina irrorella, Chelonia Plan- 

 taginis, Acidalia subsericeata, Eupithecia venosata, E. casli- 

 gata, E. distinctata, E. nanata, Dianthcecia conspersa, I). 

 cassia, D. capsophila, Plusia V-aureum, Hadena adusta, H. 

 dentina, Sericoris littorana, Eupoeciiia albicapitana, E. atri- 

 capitana, Gelechia divisella. 



PIdwin Bikchall. 



Airedale Cliff, Newlay, 

 July 1868. 



Proceedings of the Enlomological Society of London. 



June 1, 1868. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



G. P. Shearwood, Esq., of Cedar Lodge, Slockwell, was 

 elected a Member. 



The Secretary announced that an exhibition of useful and 

 destructive insects would take place in the Palais de ITndus- 

 irie, at Paris, during the month of August. The Committee 



