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instructions how to rear it: we nailed a piece of peat on the 
back of the breeding-box, into which it made up on the 6th 
of August, 1870, from which it emerged on the 18th of this 
month, a most beautiful and perfect insect.—John Landon ; 
31, Alston Street, Lady Grove, Birmingham, June 20, 1871. 
Macroglossa Bombyliformis and Cucullia Umbratica at 
Inverurie.—There was a specimen of Macroglossa Bombyli- 
formis and one of Cucullia umbratica, found here last week. 
So far as I am aware they are both new to the Aberdeenshire 
list—James Garrow; 40, Market Place, Inverurie, N.B., 
June 19, 1871. 
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society, 
June 5, 1871. 
Shower of Insects at Bath—The Secretary read the 
following letter (dated May 9th), received from the Rev. L. 
Jenyns, of Bath, concerning the newspaper reports, alluded 
to at the last Meeting, as to the supposed showers of insects, 
or other organisms, occurring at that city :—‘“ Seeing in the 
‘Atheneum’ that mention was made at the last Meeting of 
the Entomological Society of a ‘so-called storm of insects’ 
that had fallen lately at Bath on two occasions, with 
reference to the inaccuracy of newspaper reports in scientific 
matters, I venture to send, for the information of the Members 
of the Society, a statement of so much as I know respecting 
the phenomenon in question. I did not witness it, indeed I 
was not in Bath at the time; but a person who keeps a small 
inn near the Midland Railway-station, where the phenomenon 
was observed, on my requesting to see them, showed me 
some of the organisms still alive, which he had kept in a 
tumbler of water since the time of their falling. This was 
several days after the occurrence of the storm, and, having 
already parted with a great many specimens, he would not 
allow me to take one away with me for closer examination at 
home. But I saw enough to satisfy me as to their nature, if 
not to identify the exact species. They were not, as may be 
supposed, true insects, nor were they Entomostraca, as Prof. 
Westwood thought they might perhaps have been, but forms of 
Infusoria, more especially of the genus Vibrio, large numbers 
