THE ENTOMOLOGIST. ^73 



With reference to the discussion, at the May Meeting, on 

 the alleged contemporaneous flashing of the light of fireflies, 

 Mr. Clark read the following extract from a letter received 

 from Mr. Alexander Fry : — " I can confirm your observation 

 that the fireflies of the genus Aspisoma of Caslelnau flit at 

 night in great numbers over low-lying damp fields, chiefly 

 near water, emitting light by short flashes at intervals of 

 three or four seconds, the majority keeping lime with each 

 other, as if in obedience to the baton of a leader. 1 think it 

 is only the fireflies of that genus which practise it. The nu- 

 merous fireflies common in Mexico and North America 

 belong chiefly to the genus Ellyclinia and Photuris, whose 

 habits are different, so far as I have had opportunity to ob- 

 serve their congeners in Brazil." 



Mr. W. F. Evans said that, in consequence of the late 

 President, Mr. F. Smith, having called attention to Madame 

 Merian's statement respecting the emission of light by the 

 lantern-fly, he had sent a copy of the President's Address 

 (of the 25th of January, 1864), and an outline drawing 

 of Fulgora laternaria to his son, Mr. W. T. Evans, of the 

 Commissariat, at present in British Honduras, with a re- 

 quest that he would endeavour to ascertain the (act: the 

 following was an extract of a letter recently received from 

 him : — "Belize, 17th May, 1865. — I have succeeded in my 

 entomological researches about the lantern-fly. 1 had one 

 given to me (caught here) alive, and 1 myself saw it giving 

 light. I kept it in a tumbler for about a day, and it some- 

 times did not give it, but at others it did. The ants have 

 eaten off two of its legs. I must wait for a chance to send it 

 home." 



The Rev. Douglas C. Timins communicated some "Notes 

 of a Month's Collecting at Cannes." 



Dr. Armitage exhibited the case of a female Oiketicus, 

 into the open end of which were simultaneously thrust the 

 bodies of three males, manifestly with a view to copulation 

 with the single female within. The specimens had been 

 killed and were shown in situ ; they were from Monte Video, 

 and had been determined by Mr. F. Walker to be Oiketicus 

 Kirbyi. 



Mr. Dunning mentioned that, in the year 1850, when 

 strolling in the vicinity of Storthes Hall, Huddersfield, in 



