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Dr. Walker said that the difficulty of landing was very great, 

 but feeling satisfied it could be done, he was determined that 

 it should be done. On June 12tb, inspite of in disposition, 

 owing to the heavy rolling of the steamer the whole of the 

 previous day, he succeeded in landmg under the following 

 circumstances. The mail boat having already gone ashore 

 he had to have recourse to a cargo boat from Copenhagen 

 laden with sacks of flour for the natives, and the companion- 

 ladder not being let down, he had to slew himself on one 

 side on to a rope-ladder and descend hand over hand, and, as 

 the bottom of the rope-ladder did not reach to the boat, to 

 drop heavily on to the flour-sacks. He was then rowed for 

 about a mile over a choppy sea to the shore, receiving an 

 occasional dollop of salt-water in the face or over the whole 

 of his waistcoat. Dr. Walker concluded by saying that not- 

 withstanding the hardships he endured in landing he did not 

 regret having done so, for, with some help in collecting from 

 the juvenile population, he had been enabled to bring home 

 to England the first insects recorded from the Westmann Isles. 



In reply to a question by Mr. Stainton, Dr. Walker said 

 that the flowers chiefly frequented by the humble-bees in 

 Iceland, were those of a small species of white galium (pro- 

 bably Galium saxatile?) and Viola tricolor. Dr. Walker also 

 added that this year he had taken Hemiptera in Iceland for 

 the first time, namely, Sahla littoraUs (Cimex littoralis in 

 Paij hull's List) the same species that Dr. Mason captured in 

 1889. He also said he had taken its larva at Reykjavik, and 

 at Akureyri. 



Messrs. M'Lachlan, Stainton, Jenner Weir, Stevens, Jacoby , 

 Lewis and others took part in the discussion which ensued. 



Papers read. 



Dr. Walker contributed " Notes on Calathus melanocephahis 

 collected in Iceland, the Westmaim Isles, and the Faroe 

 Isles." 



Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a paper entitled " Further 

 Notes on the synonymy of the genera of Noctuites." 



PROC 



. ENT. SOC. I.OND.. IV., 1890. 



