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‘theodolite’ into ‘dial’ worthy of passing mention.) Discovering 
at this point that dinner, according to time, must be nearly ready, 
all faces were turned towards Mitcheldean, where at the George 
it awaited us. 
“So much for the Geological section; and much it rejoiceth 
me to say, that I can upon this occasion refer to another which 
has not been heard of in the annals of the Club for many long 
days. Mr. Guise and your unworthy scribe, assisted by Mr. 
Wilton, devoted themselves principally to the entomology of the 
day, and verily their exertions were not all unrewarded. The 
Fern-chafer (hiatus for swell name, which escapes me at the mo- 
ment), which is, like all his tribe, in some years exceedingly rare, 
and in others exceedingly ‘ de trop,’ is this year very abundant. 
“While halting in one of the openings in a woody lane, to 
admire the novel scenery—the Malverns, the Clee Hill, the Sugar 
Loaf, the Black Mountains, and other distant and unfamiliar 
eminences, which stood out in the distance with truly remarkable 
distinctness of outline and feature, an insect of unusual style of 
flight suddenly attracted the attention of scribe, and disappearing 
was by him, asserted to have taken refuge with Mr. Wilton, who, 
on his part disclaimed all knowledge of the stranger, or any desire 
to be converted into a sanctuary, nevertheless seribe was right, 
and detected in a fold of his coat a fine specimen of Si/pha 
quinque-costata, the third he had seen in our district, both the others 
having been taken on May Hill. It here occurs to me ‘ passim’ 
that this is the only Silpha I bave ever taken upon the wing, and 
all three specimens known to me were so taken, while all its 
cousins must be sought for under stones, carcases, or other 
efluvious matter, although there can be no more doubt of the 
necrophagous scavenger habits of the species in question than of 
those of its congeners. 
“ Another beetle of the same tribe was very shortly afterwards 
taken, which is also not very common in vur vale, Oiceoptoma 
ruficollis and Cteniceras pectinicornis. 
“T leave Mr. Guise to give his own account of the moths and 
other insects captured by him. On the summit of Mitcheldean 
Hill, in the attempt to capture some water beetles, it was found 
that the shallow mud of a small pond was literally one living 
mass of the Pistdiwm pulchellum. Cicindela campestris was here 
found in great force. 
“The dinner was such as to call forth special encomium, and I 
really think would have contented, whether for variety, quality, or 
cost, any member of the Club, which is paying Mr. Yearsley, the 
host, no mean compliment. 
“The Earl Ducie, in the absence of our President, took the 
head of the table, confronted by W. V. Guise, Esq. The Queen 
having been duly honoured, the Rev. W. 8. Symonds read a paper 
in part explanatory of the Geological sections examined during 
the day, and called attention to the discovery in strata of the 
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