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the points on the veins not so conspicuous, and the tips of 

 the fore wings are more rounded. The larvae also seem par- 

 ticularly to differ ; that of our absyntbiata is found only on 

 Artemisia. Miana fasciuncula, Agrotis lunigera, Procris Ge- 

 ryon, and Rctinia pinicolana are all, 1 believe, good species ; 

 Litbosia molybdeola surely is different from aureola, and I 

 tbink also Litbosia pygmseola froui pallilVons. The two latter 

 species are very similar, but there may be some little differ- 

 ence in the veins. Relative to Bombyx Callunae, I might also 

 consent to your opinion that it is different from Bombyx 

 Quercus, but I possess a pair of Quercus that appear inter- 

 mediate : the form of the yellow band turns a little down to 

 the anal angle, but not so evidently as in Callunae : the co- 

 lour of the female is darker than in Quercus, but clearer 

 than in Callunae. — H. von Heinemann ; Brunswick, May 9, 

 1865. 



Entomological Society. 



April 3, 1865. — Mr. Saunders exhibited a number of galls 

 collected during the previous year in Southern Syria by Mr. 

 B. T. Lowne. One was on a species of Acacia, from Engedi ; 

 another was of scaly or flaxy material placed round the stems 

 of Atriplex Italinus, from the Dead Sea ; a third, probably 

 the gall of a Dipterous insect, was on a grass ; a fourth kind 

 occurred on Reaumuria, from Ain Terebeh, Dead Sea; a fifth 

 on ^rua Javanica, from Engedi ; a sixth on a Salvia, from 

 the same locality ; and a seventh kind was found on a species 

 ofTamarix, at Ain Terebeh. With respect to the first two, 

 Mr. Saunders was unable to say with certainty whether they 

 were the nidi of insects ; the gall on the tamarisk bore great 

 resemblance to that described and figured in the 'Trans- 

 sactions' some years ago, and was probably caused by one 

 of the Buprestidae. 



Mr. Pascoe read the following note : — " Last July, when 

 passing over the snow-fields on the top of Monte Moro, at 

 an elevation of about 8000 feet, 1 noticed here and there a 

 sharply-defined cylindrical hole in the snow, such as might 

 have been caused by pressing a wine-cork into it. These 

 holes were generally about an inch in depth, and at the bot- 

 tom of each was either a small lump that looked like peat, or 



