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years, and appear to come up the joints of tlie floor-boards. 

 I have repeatedly tried to keep them to see if they produce a 

 moth or beetle. I am under the impression it is the larva of 

 a beetle, but they usually die after keeping them a long time 

 without changing into any other form. These I have had in 

 a box since the 20th of May last, and they frequently shed 

 their skins. I showed them to Mr. S. Stevens, and he advised 

 me to ask you. — G. Gray ; 71, Castle Street, Dover, Septem- 

 ber 20, 1873. 



[They are the larvae of one of the Dermestida ; of course 

 neither of the larger and more familiar species, Dermestes 

 lardarius or D. murinus, but perhaps of Attagenus Pellio. Of 

 this, however, I am by no means certain. — E. Neivman.^ 



Contributions to the Collection of the Entomological Club. 

 — S. R. Featherstonhaugh, a pair of Dianthoecia Barrettii 

 and a series of D. Nisus (capsophila). Rev. P. H. Jennings, 

 a series of Angerona prunaria varieties. James A. Tawell, six 

 Lycaena Arion and six Acidalia pulchraria (Blomeraria). W. 

 H. Tugwell, six Zygaena Meliloti. G. Guest, six Zygaena 

 Meliloti. Thomas Eedle, a series of Antithesia salicana and 

 Ditula Hartmanniana. Benjamin Standish, a specimen of 

 Choerocampa Celerio, taken in his own garden at Peckham. 

 Mr. Davis, two pairs of Phycis Davisellus. For these presents 

 I return, on behalf of the Entomological Club, my very 

 sincere thanks. — Edward Newman. 



Entomological Pins. — In reply to enquiry (Entom. vi. 488), 

 long continental (British manufactured) entomological pins 

 can be obtained at Edmondson's, Barnet Street, Liverpool. — 

 C. S. Qregson. 



Proceedings of the Kensington Entomological Society, 

 August Sth and 22nd, 1873. 



At the meeting held 8th August — 



Mr. Lord exhibited a splendid specimen of Macaria 

 alternata. 



Mr. Cooper, a living specimen of Tropis dimidiata, one of 

 the Australian Longicorns, which had been taken that 

 afternoon in the grounds adjacent to the South Kensington 

 Museum. Mr. Pascoe at once identified the insect, and 

 remarked that no previous capture of this species in Great 

 Britain had been recorded. 



