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on the Thames bank near Hammersmith, and has identified it 

 with the O. speculiiVons of Kraatz, Ins. DeutschL ii. 862, note. 

 " On Waterlall Insects, by W. Garneys," in which Mr. Gar- 

 neys states he Ibund Stenns Guynemeri and Qaedius aurico- 

 nuis at a water-rill near Matlock : the title olthe paper leads 

 one to expect something more than this. " Orgyia gono- 

 stiguia, Notodonta chaonia, Dasj'campa riibiginca, Pericallia 

 syringaria, by the Rev. J. Hellins." Mr. Hellins records that 

 hybernated larviie of O. gonostigma began to feed on tlie 5ih 

 of May ; that a specimen of Notodonta chaonia was taken 

 flying round a gas-lamp at Exeter on the 25th of April ; that 

 a specimen of Dasycampa rubiginea was also taken at a 

 gas-lamp at the end of March ; and that a score of the larvae 

 of Pericallia syringaria were found hanging at night from 

 their food-plant, Lonicera periclymenum. " Butalis incon- 

 gruella at West Wickham, Hermaphrodite Insects, Hybrid 

 Insects, by R. M'Lachlan." Mr. M'Lachlan took B. incon- 

 gruella at West Wickham on the 8th of April; he expresses 

 a wish that all instances of hermaj^hrodism and hybridism in 

 insects should be catalogued. " Probable Food of the Larvaj 

 of Micropteryx mansuetella, by Charles Healy." Mr. Healy 

 suggests that Mercurialis perennis is the food-plant of M. 

 mansuetella, from having seen the moths flying about that 

 plant. " Proceedings of the Entomological JSociely of Lon- 

 don," being a glance at the doings at the May Meeting of 

 the Society, alter the manner of the concise reports in the 

 'Athenaeum.' "Wasp attacking Larvae, by G. Gascoyne." 

 Mr. Gascoyne relates that half a dozen of his juvenile larvae 

 ofEndromis were consumed by a wasp, who received the 

 piaiishment of death for his crime. " Xylina conspicillaris, by 

 the Rev. E. Horton, M.A." Mr. Horton records the breed- 

 ing of a fine specimen ol this rare Noctua on the 19th of 

 April last ; it emerged in the forenoon, at the same time as 

 the lainiocampae : when at rest the wings are closely 

 pressed to the sides as in X. putris, the breadth across the 

 thorax being greater than across the other extremity, wings 

 included. 



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