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similar manner to that described above. Pieces of dried apple 

 threaded on the string, or pieces of sponge dipped in apple-juice, 

 appears his usual bait ; but this may arise from the prevalent 

 idea that beet-root sugar, which alone is in general use abroad, 

 is not attractive to insects. — N. F. Dobree ; Beverlej', E. Yorks. 



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Entomological Society of London. -Ma?/ 4if/i, 1887. Dr. 

 David Sharp, F.Z.S., President, in the chair. The Rev. C. Ellis- 

 Stevens, B.D., of Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. ; Mr. Frederic 

 Merrifield, of 34, Yernon Terrace, Brighton ; Mr. Henry Rowland 

 Brown, B.A., of Oxhey Grove, Stanraore ; and Mr. Coryndon 

 Matthews, of Ivybridge, Devon, were elected Fellows. Mr. Wm. 

 Warren exhibited a specimen of Euzophera oblitella, Z., caught 

 in the Isle of Wight; and, for purposes of comparison, a pair of 

 Stigmonota palllfrontana, Z. (a species taken several years ago by 

 Mr. W. Thompson, of Stoney Stratford), and a pair of S. internana, 

 Gn., with which the former had been, till lately, confounded. He 

 also exhibited specimens of Asthenia pygmceana, Hb., another 

 species new to Britain, and A. ahiegana (Dup.) {suhsequana, 

 Haw.). Mr. Stainton remarked that the two last-named species, 

 Asthenia pygmceana and A. ahiegana, both had white under- 

 wings, and were in other respects very similar. It was formerly 

 thought that Haworth's suhsequana was identical with the species 

 previously figured by Hiibner as pygmceaiia ; but now that the 

 two allied species were critically examined it appeared that the 

 species described by Haworth as suhsequana was not Hiibner's jj?/^/- 

 mceana, but another species known as the ahiegana of Duponchel, 

 dating only from 1842, so that Haworth's name suhsequana had pri- 

 ority by thirty years. Mr. F. Pascoe exhibited a Specimen of Diaxines 

 taylori (Wath.), taken out of the stem of an orchid — Saccolahium 

 cceleste — growing in an orchid-house at Croydon, and received 

 from Moulmein, in Burmah. Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited nearly 

 200 specimens of Neuroptera, in beautiful condition, collected by 

 Mr, E. Meyrick in various parts of Australia and Tasmania, 

 comprising about seventy species. There were between forty and 

 fifty species of Trichoptera, including moth-like forms from 

 Western Australia, allied to Plectrotarsus, Kol. ; and other 



