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allied to P, Peranthus, and numerous fine DanaidsB and Nymphalidte ; amongst 

 the Coleoptera he called attention lo several new species of CetoniadaB and Cicin- 

 delidae. 



Mr. Bond exhibited an apparently new species of Depressaria from the Isle of 

 Wight, and a new species of Coleophora bred from the larvas found on birch trees 

 in the Regent's Park. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited the following Coleoptera, which had not hitherto been 

 recorded as British : — 



1. Cryptocephalus imperialis, a single specimen from the collection of Dr. Power, 

 by whom it was captured on Gograagog Hills, Cambridgeshire, some years since; 

 this individual had been first recognised by Mr. Edward Sheppard. 



2. Cryptocephalus variabilis, of which he had found a solitary example in the 

 cabinet of the late Mr. Stephens, mixed up with its near ally, C. sexpunctatus ; 

 he had likewise identified a specimen, also confounded with the same species, in 

 the collection of the late Dr. Leach. 



3. Lema Erichsoni, recently taken by Dr. Power in Ireland, but of which an 

 individual existed in the Stephensian cabinet, where it had been set apart without 

 a name. 



Mr. Waterhouse pointed out the characters by which these species may be 

 distinguished from such of their congeners as occurred in Britain, with which they 

 might be confounded. 



Mr. Janson exhibited a specimen of Locusta migratoria, which had been taken 

 a few days since in the vicinity of Primrose Hill, and mentioned that another 

 individual had been captured in Kentish Town. 



Mr. Baly remarked that several instances of the recent occurrence of this insect in 

 the latter locality had come under his notice. 



Mr. Bond said he had seen specimens of this species recently taken at Willesden, 

 and also in the New Forest. 



Mr. Stevens stated that specimens had occurred at Brighton : he also announced 

 that a specimen of Deilephila Nerii had been taken there a few days since. 



New Entomological Periodical at Vienna. 



Mr. Pascoe called the attention of the meeting to a new Continental ento- 

 mological periodical published monthly at Vienna, styled ' Wiener Entomologische 

 Monatschrift,' and submitted the first number containing " Dipterologische Notizen," 

 by Dr. H. Loew ; " Die Apionen der Wiener Gegend,' by L. Miiller; and "Ueber 

 die Lycaeniden-Gattungen der europaischen Fauna," by Julius Lederer. 



Swarms of Locusts in China. 



Mr. Janson read, from the 'North China Herald' of June 13th, a notice of the 

 appearance of enormous swarms of locusts in the district of Nanwei adjacent to 

 Shanghai, and the means which the public oflBcers had ordered to be adopted for the 

 destruction of these all-devouring insects. 



Mr. Westwood observed, that, although many of these injunctions might well 



