THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 271 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London. 



November 16, 1868. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in 

 the chair. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen of Tapinostola Elymi, 

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

 Dianthoecia 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 larvae found in the Isle of Man, and 

 the earthen case in which one of the pupae had been 

 enclosed. 



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

 logist,' one recording the occurrence of Papilio Machaon in 

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

 ralization in North America of Pieris Rapa?, 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 Po- 

 lygoni. 



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 grow- 

 ing on the bark of trees, and had not any external respiratory 

 organs. 



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

 chair. 



The Secretary announced that an exhibition of bees would 

 be held at Milan, from the 10th to the 13th of the month, 

 and would comprise a collection of all kinds of bees, honey, 

 and instnmienls and utensils employed in apiculture, for 

 which various prizes would be distributed. A silver medal 



