XXXKV 
Man and in Ireland; and an Acidalia, respecting which the following extract was 
read from a letter from Mr. Gregson :— 
“T send you Acidalia veterata; it may be the same as one named mancuniata 
by Dr. Knaggs from some aberrant stunted second-brood females, but as the rule is to 
name from normal males (not females) as types, of course his name falls, especially as 
his diagnosis may mean anything or nothing. I do not know Dr. Knaggs, and of 
course have not any wish to offend him, but could not accept his new name for my 
old insect when based upon an abnormal type.” 
Mr. Stainton exhibited a living specimen of Stathmopoda Guerinii (ante, p. xxxi.), 
and called attention to the peculiar position of the hind legs, which were elevated and 
stretched out sideways as in S. pedella (which received the name of pedella from 
Linné from the peculiar posture of its hind legs) and as in the curious Indian insect 
Atkinsonia Clerodendronella, of which a drawing by a native artist at Calcutta was 
also exhibited. With reference to the galls in which the larve of S. Guerinii reside, 
Mr. Stainton referred to a passage in Réaumur (vol. iii. p. 305) in which these galls 
on the ‘ terebinthe’ and their Aphbis-inhabitants were mentioned, the plant which bore 
them having obtained the name of the fly-tree (arbre aux mouches) from the pod-like 
excrescences containing these Aphides. Mr. Stainton referred to the possibility of the 
larva of S. pedella being an inhabitant of galls, and thought that the habitat assigned 
by Linné for the larva “ in alni foliis, subeutanea” might after all be correct: he quoted 
a passage from a paper by T. Bergmann, who had furnished Linné with the notice of 
the habit of Tinea pedella, to shew that that observer was aware of the existence of 
Lepidopterous larve in galls, and finally he quoted a passage from the Proceedings of 
the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, vol. 5, pp. 143, 144, to shew that Mr. 
Benjamin D. Walsh had bred a small moth (a Batrachedra) in plenty from galls 
formed by one of the Tenthredinide on the leaves of willows.—* Each gall containing 
a single larva, unaccompanied by the larva of the Nematus which makes the gall, 
which it must .consequently have destroyed or starved out, either in the egg or in the 
larva state.” 
Mr. E. G. Meek exhibited Dicrorampha flavidorsana (Knaggs, MS.),* a species 
new to Science, from North Devon and Haslemere; a species of Noctuina, supposed to 
be new, taken by Mr. Harrington near New Cross; + and Stigmonota leguminana from 
Epping Forest. 
Mr. Hewitson sent for exhibition some eggs “ found upon the grass near some 
heath” and which were unknown to him: no member present hazarded a conjecture 
as to the insect to which the eggs were referable. 
Mr. Hewitson communicated the following note on the plumules on the wings of 
butterflies : — 
“When I was last at Bowdon, Mr. Watson, who has been studying the plumules 
from the wings of butterflies, pointed out to me a group of the Pieride which he 
considered ought to be set apart from the rest of the genus, having none of those 
* Since described Ent. Mo. Mag. iii. 176, and figured Ent. Ann. 1867, fig. 5. 
+ Xylina Zinckenii, 7r.; see Ent. Ann. 1867, p. 136. 
