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capture by himself, of sixteen specimens of Sphinx convolvuli at 
the flowers of Petunias, in one evening in 1846. Jonkeer May, 
the Dutch Consul-General, asked whether the reported occur- 
rence of the Hessian Fly (Cecidomyia destructor) in England had 
been confirmed. In reply Mr. McLachlan stated he believed that 
several examples of an insect thought to be the Hessian Fly had 
been bred in this country, but that everything depended upon 
correct specific determination in such an obscure and difficult 
genus as Cecidomyia.—H. Goss, Secretary. 
Tue Sourn Lonpon Enromonoaican anp Narurau History 
Socrrry.—November 4, 1886. ‘The President in the chair.—Mr. 
E. Sabine was elected a member. Mr. Billups exhibited seven 
male specimens of Halictus xanthopus from Reigate, and con- 
tributed notes. Mr. A. EK. Cook, Vanessa C-album, from Wales. 
Mr. Jager, a variety of Hypsipetes ruberata, from Brockenhurst, 
Mr. Sheldon, dark forms of H. sordidata, from Cadder Moss, 
Lanarkshire. Mr. T. W. Hall, Cerastis vaccinit and C. spadicea, 
and contributed notes. Mr. J. T. Carrington, six of the spurious 
varieties of Vanessa urtice referred to at the last meeting of the 
Society as having been offered for sale. Mr. R. South, Cynophos 
obscuraria, from Folkestone, the New Forest, Perthshire, North 
Devon, and Lewes, and read a short paper thereon. Mr. Rose, 
Lycena virgauree, captured by himself in Norway; varieties of 
Boarmia repandata from the Isle of Wight and the Lake District, 
also Nudaria mundana, L.and contributed notes. Mr. Adkin, 
Huchelia jacobe@, in one specimen the red markings being 
absent from the right wing. Mr. Chaney, the following Cole- 
optera: Sphodrus leucophthalmus, from Peckham; Molytes ger- 
manus, Agabus nitidus, from Sandown, and Barynotus merens, 
from West Horsley. Mr. Billups, Orthoptera: Gomphocerus 
rufus, Ch., from Reigate. Hemiptera: Corimelena scarabeoides 
and Sehirus moris, both from Reigate. 
November 18th, 1886. ‘The President in the chair.—Messrs. 
W. F. Blandford and Mullins were elected members. Mr. 'l. R. 
Billups exhibited a female specimen of Prosopis punctulatissima, 
taken at South Hayling, June, 1886, and stated that this very 
rare short-tongued bee had hitherto been recorded from Birch 
Wood, Kent, where it was taken some twenty-five years since 
by the late Mr. F. Smith; also two drawers of Ichneumonide, 
