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xxxiv. ; 1841, p. xxii. ; 1842, p. Ixvii. ; 1852, p. xxi. ; 1857, 

 p. xcvii. ; 1863, p. clxxii. ; 1864, p. xliv. ; 1865, p. Ixxxix. ; 

 and 1866, p. viii. — Edivard Newman. 



Bemhex olivacea found near Gloucester. — At the Meeting 

 of the Entomological Society held on the 2nd of April, Mr. 

 Smith said that, in Stephens' ' Catalogue of British Insects,' 

 the genus Bembex was included on the authority of Dono- 

 van, who had figured B. octopunctata as British, but without 

 assigning any precise locality. In the ' Entomologist's An- 

 nual' for 1866, p, 122, he (Mr. Smith) had expressed a hope 

 that this, amongst other genera now expunged from our list, 

 might be re-discovered : he had the pleasure of exhibiting a 

 specimen of Bembex oli\iacea (which name was a synonym 

 of, but had priority over, B. octopunctata) placed in his 

 hands by a gentleman at Bristol, to whom it was given many 

 years ago by a Dr. Hicks, who said that he had himself cap- 

 tured the insect near Gloucester. 



Cor reel ion of Name. — The Necrobia you sent me (as 

 noticed Entom. ii. 345) I have submitted to Mr. Bold, of 

 Neu castle, and he returns them as Necrobia rufipes, sending 

 me a pair of the true N. violacea, in which the legs are an 

 obscure deep blue, with a coarse punctuation on the thorax 

 and elytra. In N. rufipes (your insect) the legs are entirely 

 red, and the thorax and elytra more finely punctured. — 

 J. K. Taylor, Thorn Collage, Lime Grove, LongsiyJU, Man- 

 chesler, in a iMler to W. West. 



Working-melt's Industrial Exhibition at Guildhall. — 

 Now that this most interesting Exhibition has closed, it may 

 be interesting to preserve a record that one of the Classes 

 contained collections of British Insects actually made and 

 arranged by the exhibitors. The adjudicator selected by the 

 exhibitors, in this and several other Classes, was the Editor 

 of the ' Entomologist,' and the prize medal for Insects was 

 given to James Bryant. The medals were distributed on 

 the J 7th of April, by that great benefactor to the poor 

 of London, George Peabody, the Lord Mayor occupying 

 the chair. 



Errata. — In No. 27 of the ' Entomologist,' at page 54, 

 line 22, for " 11 a.m. to 2 p.m." read " 11 p.m. to 2 a.m." 

 At page 57, in the second column of Mr. Birchall's list, for 

 "19" read "18." 



