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distinguish the sexes of Hepiahis Humuli, leaving colour 

 and size out of the question ? 



104. Migration of ButterjUen. — I saw another flight of 

 white and yellow butterflies (Callidryas) the other day, some 

 three leagues from here, and going exactly in an opposite di- 

 rection from that before noted, — from south-east to north- 

 west, along the Valley as it lessens, which perhaps may have 

 caused deflection of course, — not so numerous as the pre- 

 vious one, but still very well marked. Whilst the fellows 

 drove ahead steadily, I observed others, precisely similar in 

 look, fluttering about as usual, and evidently not taking part 

 in the migration ; just as in Ireland I suppose you would 

 find some Paddies looking after pig and praties, in spite of 

 the rush to the Untied States of America of the mass of the 

 bog-trotters. I have not observed any migration of butter- 

 flies except of the genus Callidryas. — Henry Birchall, in a 

 Letter to his brother, Edwin Birchall. 



Entomological Society. 



November 7. — After the presentation of the vase to Mr. 

 Saunders, as recorded in No. 9 of the ' Entomologist,' Mr. 

 Janson exhibited four species of Coleoptera from the col- 

 lection of Mr. Sidebotham, of Manchester, all of them new to 

 the British list. 1. Ceuthorhynchideus Povveri has already 

 been noticed (Entom. 131). 2. Lixus filiformis, Fabr.; a 

 single specimen (at first taken for L. bicolor) captured by 

 Mr. Sidebotham by beating the oak or birch in a wood on 

 the side of Roundney Hill, near Devizes, early in June, 1864. 

 3. Sybines canus, Herbst ; two specimens taken by Mr. 

 Sidebotham, by sweeping, in a lane between Devizes and 

 Pottern, early in June, 1864. 4. Peritelus griseus, Oliv. ; 

 several specimens were collected at Ventnor, in April, 1864, 

 by Mr. Wainwright, probably by shaking herbage upon a 

 sheet of paper, in which manner some bottles full of Co- 

 leoptera had been obtained by that gentleman. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited three males and a female of a 

 Bombus new to Britain, the Bombus Pomorum of Panzer : 

 the males were captured some years ago, and had been 

 placed in his collection as a variety of another species ; the 



