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painfully remember them to have been. — Gerard Barton ; 

 Wymondham, July 17, 1867. 



[I add the note to which Mr. Barton refers. — E. N.'] 



Fleas at Ventnor. — Observing a note remarking on the 

 decrease of fleas of late years, it may interest the writer and 

 others to learn that in this neighbourhood, on the contrary, 

 they were never to my knowledge so numerous as at the 

 period referred to : I remember to have heard great com- 

 plaints. I am not aware whether fleas breed and multiply on 

 our shores, though in the South of India I have found them 

 among the sand-hillocks skirting the sea in countless num- 

 bers. — Henry Hadfield ; Ventnor, Isle of Wight. 



What is the Natural Food of Fleas, bic. '^ — I have often 

 speculated on the natural food of those bloodthirsty females 

 of the dipterous world, Culices, Pulices and Simulia, which 

 torment the unlucky human who penetrates their fastnesses. 

 In the northern regions of both continents, where man has 

 no dwelling-place, these tribes swarm in countless millions. 

 Another question, do the males of any dipteron suck the 

 blood of man ? — Edicard Newman. 



Sirex Gigas. — i had a specimen of this insect brought me 

 last suuimer. Would you kindly inform me as to its habits, 

 as 1 have not met with it here before or since. — H. Mc 

 Dowiill ; Kf tiering, March 4, 18G7. 



[The larva feeds in the interior of the trunks of the larch- 

 fir, making large galleries, and doing an incredible amount 

 of damage. — E. Newman.^ 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London. 



July 1, 18G7. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., President, in the 

 chair. 



Dr. George William Davidson, of 13, Union Place, Edin- 

 burgh, was ballotled for, and elected a Member. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited Ciniflo ferox from Folkestone, 

 where that spider had been captured by Dr. Knaggs. 



The Secretary exhibited branches and the fruit of an 

 orange-tree infested with some insect, with regard to which 

 information was requested by Mr. Charles Moore. 



The Hon. Thomas De Grey exhibited Eupcecilia anlhemi- 



