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presence of innumerable specimens of one of the larger Pyralides 

 and a red-brown Ichnemnon. Noctuse are perhaps less numerous 

 than in England ; but there are plenty of Geometrse, including 

 three or four green Geometridse. A fine Smerinthus, allied very 

 closely to ocellatus, but with greyer upper wings, flew in one 

 evening ; doubtless the larva had fed on the Populus tremulo'ides, 

 which grows thickly by the door and all down Swift Creek. 

 Grasshoppers (Locustidse) are very abundant; and of many 

 species, one kind, with a sooty-coloured thorax and upper wings, 

 and under wings half black and half yellow, makes a loud clicking 

 noise as it flies jerkily through the air. A curious case of what 

 I suppose to be protective resemblance occurs in a species of 

 Tipula, which has a black head and thorax and the anterior two- 

 thirds of the abdomen red-brown, and the posterior third black, 

 thus having the closest superficial resemblance to species of 

 Ichneumonidffi, which are abundant in the same locality as the 

 Tipula. The commonest species of Rhopalocera is Colias 

 eurytheme, and with it Pieris oleracea and P. protodice occur in 

 less numbers. Anosia plexippus flies by the road- side, Vanessa 

 antiopa is frequent in damp places, and V. milbertii settles by 

 muddy pools. — T. D. A. Cockerell; West Cliff, Custer Co., 

 Colorado, U.S,A., July 27, 1887. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — August Srd, 1887. 

 Dr. D. Sharp, President, in the chair. Mr. John Witherington 

 Peers, M.A., of Wendover, near Tring ; and Mr. R. G. Lynam, 

 of the North Staffordshire Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. Jonkheer May, the Dutch 

 Consul-General, exhibited a pupa and two imagos of Cecidomyla 

 destructor (Hessian Fly), which had been submitted to him for 

 exhibition by the Agricultural Department. Mr. W. White 

 exhibited, and made remarks on, a specimen of Philampelus 

 satellitia, Linn., from Florida, with supposed fungoid excrescences 

 from the eyes. Mr. Stainton said he was of opinion that the 

 supposed fungoid growth might be the poliinia of an Orchis. 

 Mr. Poulton expressed a similar opinion, and the discussion was 

 continued by Mr. Pascoe, Dr. Sharp, and others. Mr. White also 



