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5. Gltfphipleri/x schcenicolella, n. s., allied to G. ocuhitella ; these were bred from 

 tlie heads of Schoenus nigricans. 



6. A scries of Elachista triseriaU'lla and di spun delta, clearly showing that those 

 two sjjecies were merely forms of one and the same, 



Mr. A. F. Sheppard exhibited, on behalf of Mr. C. S. Gregson, specimens 

 of Peronea Potentillana, Cooke, recently described as a distinct species in the 

 'Zoologist'; Mr. Sheppaid expressed his opinion that the insects in question were 

 varieties of P. Schalleriana. 



Mr. Edleston sent for exhibition a series of specimens, from which it was evident 

 that the so-called species is a mere variety. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some beautiful butterflies taken by Mr. Wallace in Celebes, 

 amongst which were both sexes of Ornillioptera Remus and O. Haliphrou, Pajiilio 

 Androcles, and two undescribed species of that genus, some fine Pieridse, &c. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two bred specimens of Xanthia gilvago, and an example of 

 Agrotis saucia, in most perfect condition, which was infested by hundreds of a small 

 Acarus, of a species unknown to the Members present. 



Dr. Knaggs exhibited some Noctuae, &c. lately taken at Camden Town, observing 

 that the occurrence of such species close to the metropolis was interesting ; they 

 included Agrotis saucia, A. coiticea, and A. ravida, Gortyna micacea, Eudorea Cem- 

 brae, &c. ; he also exhibited some larvse of a species of Dynastes, from Demerara, pre- 

 served in spirits, and a small female of a Termes from the same locality. 



Mr. Stevens stated that he has recently been informed by a letter from Mr. H. W. 

 Bates, that the small pale Scarites taken by him on the Amazons, and briefly charac- 

 terized by Mr. Westwood, at the February Meeting of the Society, by the name of 

 Sulenogenys faeda, was an inhabitant of the nests of white ants. 



Mr. Robinson exhibited specimens of Lamophlteus Clematidis, found in the stems 

 of the Clematis Vitalba, near Gravesend. 



Mr. Piff'ard exhibited a collection of insects, consisting chiefly of Coleoptera and 

 Lepidoptera, which he had recently made in Nova Scotia and the vicinity of Demerara 

 River. 



Memoirs of the Entomological Societi/ of the Netherlands. 



Mr. Westwood called attention to the recently published ' Memoirs of the 

 Entomological Society of the Netherlands,' as containing many beautiful figures and 

 valuable papers; he observed that the long illness and subsequent death of Dr. De 

 Haan had caused the collections at the Leyden Museum to be much neglected ; he 

 was, however, happy to say that his successor, Mr. S. C. Snellen van Volleuhoven, 

 was going energetically to work, and had recently shown him some excellent 

 drawings intended to illustrate the work before him. The Leyden Museum was par- 

 ticularly rich in the insects of the Indian islands, such as the industry of Mr. Wallace 

 was now adding to our British collections. 



Mr. Westwood added that the drawers containing the larger Lepidoptera in the 

 collection alluded to were constructed with glass bottoms, the insects being pinned to 

 narrow slips of cork affixed thereto ; this plan obviated the necessity of taking out the 

 specimens to examine the under side, as to do so it was only necessary to turn the 

 drawer upside down. 



Bees Feeding on Pollen. 



Mr. Tcgetmeier stated that with a view to prove more satisfactorily that bees 

 devoured pollen in their perfect state, he had driven the stocks from two ordinary 



