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condition of his specimens, appears to be the S. Muscajfonnis of P2sper, originally 

 reconled as a British species by Mr. Newman, in liis " Monograjjhia ^}>triaruni 

 Angliae " (Ent. Mag. vol. i. p. 79), on the authority of a specimen in the collection of 

 Mr. J. F. Stephens ; the species was also given as British by Mr. Stephens in the 

 Appendix to his ' Illustrations ' (Haust. iv. p. 385), on the authority of the same speci- 

 men, which, however, he subsequently considered to be merely a variety of S. Ichneu- 

 monifoimis, and placed it as such in his ' Catalogue of British Lepidoptera in ihe Col- 

 lection of the British Museum ' (Part 5, p. 31). This specimen (now contained in the 

 C(dlection of the British Museum) is unquestionably a damaged example of S. Ichneu- 

 moniformis, 



Mr. Jansun exhibited three unrecorded species of British Coleoptera, recently taken 

 by Charles Turner at Rannoch, Perthshire, and made the following observations 

 respecting them : — 



Rhopalodonlus perforaius, Gyll. Cis perforatus, Gyll. Ins Suec. iii. 385, 7 (1813). 

 Rhopaliidontus perforaius, Mellie, Aunales de la Soc. Ent. de France, Ser. 2, vi. 234, 

 tab. 9, fig. 23 (1848). — The first indigenous example of this pretty little insect which 

 came under my notice I obtained from the late James Foxcroft, mixed up with some 

 scores of Cis nitidus, reared during the winter of 1853-4, from a hard woody boletus he 

 found on the trunks of old birch trees in the Black Forest, Perthshire, and which, 

 remarking that it was perforated by innumerable minute coleopterous larvce, he bronght 

 up with him to London the previous autumn. Turner, who carefully examined the 

 specimen, and to whom I pointed out its most obvious distinctive characters and com- 

 municated its history, has succeeded in securing upwards of thirty examples. 



Rhagonycha elongala. Fallen. Cantharis elongata. Fallen, Mon. Canth. i. ii. 8 (1807) ; 

 Gyll. Ins. Suec. i. 335, 8 (1808). Nearly allied to Rhagonycha palud()sa,_/''rt//eH, 

 Gyll., exhibited by me at our last meeting, but readily distinguished from it by its 

 superior size, relatively narrower form the pale basal joints of its antennae, pale apex 

 of its femora and base of its tibiae, and its subquadrate prothorax, of which the posterior 

 angles are salient. Gyllenhal and Sahlberg inform us that this species " habitat in 

 froudibus abietis." Zetterstedt remarks that it occurs likewise on birch " in Betuletis 

 Nordlandiae et Finmarkiae ;" from Turner, who is far from communicative touching 

 his craft, all the information 1 can elicit is that he " got it in a very strange way." 



Brachonyx indigena, Herbst. Curculio indigena, Herbst, Natur. Syst. Col. vi. 170, 

 130, lab. 71, fig. 12 (1793 ?). Rliynchaenus indigena, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iii. 71, 7 (1813). 

 Brachonyx indigena, Schoenh. Cure. Disp. Meth. 232,132 (1826); Gen. et Spec. 

 Cure. iii. i. 329, 214 (1836); Guerin, Icon. Ins. 145, tab. 38, fig. 3 (1833 ?).— This 

 species is found, according to Gyllenhal and other continental authorities, " in Pini 

 Sylvestris frondibus." Turner, to whom 1 sent instructions to search for it on this 

 tree, asserts he beat it from birch. Although of not unfrequent occurrence in Sweden, 

 Finland, Lapland, and in the mountainous districts of central Europe, it would appear 

 to be exceedingly rare in Scotland, as Turner assures me that every effort on his part 

 had yielded three examples only, one of which is unfortunately mutilated. 



Mr. Waring exhibited two tine specimens of Acidalia rubricata, and a beautiful 

 female of Lithostege nivearia, taken near Brandon, Suffolk, during the present 

 season. 



Mr. Scott exhibited the following Lepidopteri : — 



Coleophora binotapennella. Bred from larvae found two years ago at Brighton. 



Tinea caprimulgella. Found on the trunk of a tree in Blackheath Park. 



