emits a frotliy secretion, wliich M. Goudot described as being done so 

 plentifully at tbe time of the greatest atmospheric temperature, as to 

 assume the appearance of actual rain. From an experiment made with 

 sixty or seventy larvae, M. Goudot concluded that a vessel holding nearly 

 an English quart could have been filled with this secretion in an hour 

 and a half. 



Mr. Stainton pointed out that this series offered a good illustration of 

 the danger of founding a species on a single specimen. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited two living specimens of Carabus aiiratus, 

 found in the Borough Market, and probably introduced with Belgian 

 potatoes. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe stated that he had recently heard a rumour to the 

 effect that the Sphinx-moth with a proboscis of sufficient length to reach 

 into the nectar of Anagrcecum sesqnipcdale, predicted by Mr. Darwin and 

 Mr. Wallace to occur in Madagascar (see also Proc. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. iii.), 

 had actually been captured in that island, and he asked whether any 

 Members of the Society were able to confirm this statement. 



Mr.M'Lachlan remarked that as a believer in the doctrine of Evolution, 

 he thought that much harm was done to it by its friends, of which this was, 

 in his opinion, an example. 



The Chairman asked whether any Members had observed the date of 

 appearance of insects this season. 



The Secretary stated that a copy of a work, edited by Miss Ormerod, 

 had just been presented to the Library by its Editor, in which an immense 

 number of meteorological observations had been tabulated, in such a manner 

 as to lead to the hope that some light might be thrown by this and future 

 work conducted on a similar plan on the connection between meteorological 

 phenomena and the appearance of insects, &c. 



Miss E. A. Ormerod remarked that the records from which the 

 * Cobham Journals' had been reduced were taken by Miss Caroline Moles- 

 worth at Cobham, Surrey, and extended, with more or less completeness, 

 over a period of about forty-four years. The coincident observations of 

 weather and the state of animal and plant life in a continuous form extended 

 over only about twenty-six years, — fioni l!S25 to 1850 inclusive, — and the 

 present volume contained the reduction of these observations as far as they 

 bear on these points of coincidence. One object in view had been to give 

 by abstracts and summaries such a statement of the successive states of 

 temperature, amount of rainfall, and direction of the wind, as would enable 

 the reader to see, by a glance at the parallel columns of each month's entries, 

 what periods of marked variation or non-variation occurred in what is 

 commonly known as "the weather." The tables given in the work had 

 been directly reduced from Miss Molesworth's careful records preserved in 

 the library of the Meteorological Society, and Miss Ormerod, the Editor of 



