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and found a larva, of a dirty whitish colour and a dark black 

 head, ensconced snugly inside. Seeing it was a Torlrix 

 larva, and in such a rare plant, I spent three days hunting 

 them. The result has been, on May 4th last, 1 bred two 

 specimens of the very handsome Penlhina postremana. 

 Since then I have bred three more specimens. I sent one to 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett for examination, and he has identified it 

 for me. Prior to that Mr. Slainton had written me there 

 were only two Tortrices known to feed in the stems of the 

 balsam on the Continent, viz., Penlhina fuligdiia and 

 P. postremnna. Luckily it is the new one, although the 

 former is still a rare species. — J. B. Hodgkinson; 15, Spring 

 Bank, Preston, May 2tj, 1878. 



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The Transactions of the Enlomolngical Society of London 

 for the year 1877. 



The volume for 1877, although not quite so bulky as its 

 predecessor, certainly cannot be said to be far below it in 

 interest, more especially to the student of British or applied 

 Entomology apart from the descriptive, though much of this 

 interest will perhaps centre in the Proceedings. In the 

 number of memoirs which it contains it exceeds the volumes 

 for both 1875 and 1876, and is the same as that for 1874. Of 

 the twenty-eight separate papers fifteen are purely descriptive, 

 and four are revisions or monographs of certain special 

 families. Of the remaining nine, five are of more or less 

 general interest, and four only can be said to come within 

 the range of the observing and general entomologist; still, 

 as the custom is, this must be looked upon as a fair average. 



For four, out of the above-mentioned five, memoirs our 

 thanks are due to the President, Prof. Westwood. They are 

 entitled: — " Notes upon a Strepsipterous Insect parasitic on 

 an Exotic species of Homoptera;" "Notes on the genus 

 Prosopistoma of Laireille;" "Entomological Notes;" and 

 " On the adult Larvae of the StylopidcB and their Puparia," 

 which is by Sir Sidney Saunders, with further remarks and 

 figures by the Professor. These observations are supple- 

 mentary to the first paper on the Stylopoid parasite of the 

 Borneon Homopteron. The fifth of these memoirs is a " Note 

 on Myyale stridulans,^' by Prof. James Wood-Mason, which 

 contains a graphic and detailed description, from the pen of 

 Mr. Peal, of the way in which this sjjider stridulates; it is 



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