222 THE ENTOMOLOGIST, 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London. 



November 16, 1868. — H. W. Bales, Esq., President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen of Tapinostola Elymi, 

 captured on the Norfolk coast, near Yarmouth ; a variety of 

 Dianthcecia capsincola, bred in 1867 by Mr. Noah Greening, 

 at Warrington, having the wings on one side abnormally 

 coloured ; seven specimens of Polia nigrocincta, bred in 

 1868 by Mr. Greening, from larva? found in the Isle of Man, 

 and the earthen case in which one of the pupae had been 

 enclosed. 



Prof. AV^estwood announced that the Leucania exhibited 

 by Mr. Briggs at the previous Meeting had proved to be L. 

 albipuncta, W. V., a species new to the British list. 



Mr. M'Lachlan read extracts from the ' Canadian Entomo- 

 logist,' one recording the occuri'ence of Papilio Machaon in 

 the Hudson's Bay Territory, the other relating to the natu- 

 ralization in North America of Pieris Rapse, which, recently 

 introduced into Canada, had already spread southwards into 

 Maine and Vermont. 



Mr. Bond mentioned the occurrence of a swarm of beetles 

 in Cambridgeshire. A correspondent, writing from Whittles- 

 ford on the 30th of September, 1868, said: — "Within the 

 last few days, the road, the foot-path, the grass and the 

 hedges from my house for about three-quarters of a mile, 

 have been covered with them : there must be bushels of 

 them, and although we have had showers, their numbers do 

 not diminish." The species in question was Gastrophysa 

 Polygon!. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited larva-cases, and specimens of 

 both sexes of the imago (winged males and wingless females) 

 of EnoEcyla pusilla, bred by Mr, Fletcher, of Worcester, an 

 interesting addition to the list of British Trichoptera. The 

 larvae were terrestrial in their habits, feeding in mosses 

 growing on the bark of trees, and had not any external 

 respiratory organs. 



December 7, 1868. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the 

 chair. 



