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is, I know, a great advantage. I left a collection, made by 

 me wlien at Winchester school about sixteen years ago, in 

 London, for years not looked at: when I opened the drawers 

 there was hardly an insect injured. They were set flat. — 

 J. S. Wesleij; Welherby, Tadcasler, February 18, 1873. 



[I have never seen a British collection set on the flat plan, 

 so I feel scarcely competent to offer an opinion on the com- 

 parative merits of the two plans. As a general rule, I would 

 recommend no one to commence a practice so contrary to 

 English prejudices as flat setting. J do not urge any higher 

 ground. Mr. Greene's 'Insect-Hunter's Companion' is the 

 authority on such points. — Edivard Newman.] 



Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological 

 Society, November 18, 1872, to January 6, 1873. 



Cramhus verellus. — Mr. Howard Vaughan exhibited Cram- 

 bus verellus, a species recently delected as British, captured 

 by Mr. C. A. Briggs at Folkestone, in July ; and he stated 

 that he had seen two other British examples in the collections 

 of Mr. S. Stevens and Mr. H. R. Cox respectively. He also 

 exhibited varieties of Pyrameis Cardui and Vanessa Atalanta. 



Nephopteryx argyrella. — Mr. Meek exhibited Nephopteryx 

 argyrella, a species of Phycidae not in the British Lists, which 

 he said had been captured by Mr. Button near Graveseud ; 

 also varieties of Arctia caja and other Lepidoptera. 



Varieties of British Lepidoptera. — Mr. Bond exhibited 

 varieties of the following British Lepidoptera: — (1) Lycaena 

 iEgon, female, having the right-hand wings plain brown, 

 whereas those on the left-hand were blue: he at first thought 

 it was what is comuionly called a hermaphrodite, but it really 

 was a female combining the two varieties of that sex in one 

 individual : this was from the New Forest, (2) A fine variety 

 of Notodonta dodonea, captured at Tnnbridge in 1872. (3) A 

 black specimen of Acronycta megacephala, bred near London 

 in 1872. (4) A curious variety of Miselia Oxyacantha?, taken 

 at Portsdown in 1872. 



New British Ichneumon. — Mr. Bond also exhibited a new 

 British species of Ichneumonidaj (Anomalon fasciatum), bred 

 by Mr. Mitford from the cocoons of the supposed variety of 

 Lasiocampa Trifolii obtained from larvae found at Ronmey, 

 Hants. 



