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128. Colymhetes fuscufi infested hy a Fungus. — I have for 

 some time past kept in an aquarium, among other things, a 

 specimen of Colymbetes fuscus. For the last few weeks I 

 have noticed the growth of what appears to me to be a fim- 

 gtis. It somewhat resembles paste, and is scattered about 

 on various parts of the beetle, but the thickest growth is on 

 either side of the thorax where it joins the head. I shall be 

 glad to know if others have observed this ; for though I have 

 heard of such a disease affecting fish, I have never noticed 

 it with regard to Coleoptera. — W. J. Rowe ; 13, St. Mary's 

 Road, Peckhem, January 28, 1865. 



Entomological Society. 



January 2, 1865. — Mr. Bond exhibited a series of that 

 remarkable race of Hepialus Humuli, which has been noticed 

 at p. 162 as received from Shetland. Also a series of Ephes- 

 tia; and of Depressaria olerella, a species new to Britain, 

 and lately captured by Mr. C. G. Barrett near Haslemere. 



Mr. Wallace exhibited two hundred species of Longicorns 

 captured by Mr. Lamb at Penang, in the province of Welles- 

 ley, nearly the whole of them new to Science. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark exhibited a collection of Lepi- 

 doptera, Hymenoptera and Orthoptera, from the Banks of the 

 Nile. Mr. Pickard-Cambridge, who formed the collection, 

 remarked that insect life was not abundant in Egypt : the 

 specimens of Micro-Lepidoptera, now exhibited were all he 

 saw : he also called attention to the seed -pod of a Cassia 

 from which a species of Lycaena had emerged, but which 

 still remained unopened. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Roland Triraen, dated 

 Cape Town, November 11, 1864, and stating that Mr. West- 

 wood's Charaxes Argynnides, lately described as new, from 

 the Zambesi, was identical with his (Mr. Trimen's) Nymphalis 

 Jahlusa (Rhop. Af. Auct. Pt. I. p. 177) : no true Argynnis 

 has been taken in South-Eastern Africa, the only fritillary 

 known to inhabit the regions being Atella Phalanta, which 

 has no silver ornamentation. 



The Secretary mentioned that the Rev. J. Collins, of Shep- 

 ley Parsonage, near Huddersfield, had recently captured fifty 



