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Mr. Bond also exhibited a male Caradriua cubicularis and a female Santa 

 ulvse, which were captured in copula, at Horning Fen, in August last. 



Mr. Howard Vaughan exhibited a specimen of Plusia acuta, ]Valker, 

 captured in May last, by Mr. H. P. Robinson, at Tunbridge Wells ; it flew 

 through the drawing-room window, attracted by the light.=:= 



Mr. H. Vaughan also exhibited Leucania albipuncta from Folkestone ; 

 and two remarkably dark varieties of Tryphsena orbona, from Mr. Norman, 

 of Forres [? T. consequa, Cuyt. = T. Curtisii, Newm.] And the following 

 four species, new to the list of British Lepidoptera : — 



1. Acidalia ochrata, (Scoj-JoZt ; captured near Red Hill ; see Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 Tii. 138. 



2. Trachonitis (?) Pryerella ; taken in London in August and September. 



3. Plomoeosoma seuecionis ; the larva of which was found in Essex, 

 mining in the stems of ragwort. . 



4. H. saxicola; reared in 1807 from larvae found in September, 1866, in 

 the Isle of Man, feeding in flower-heads of chamomile. These three species 

 of Phycididas are described by Mr. Vaughan in Ent. Mo. Mag. vii. 130. 



Mr. F. Smith, referring to his previous remarks on Meloe rugosus (Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. 1869, p. xx.), mentioned that he had again visited Prittlewell 

 this autumn, and taken twenty-five specimens of this beetle; they were 

 found under the herbage, and never came into daylight, only the top of the 

 abdomen of the female being visible ; the males appeared to fight furiously 

 with one another, not only when in confinement, but in a state of nature ; 

 most of the females were full of eggs, and Mr. Smith placed two in a flower- 

 pot, in the hope of breeding the species ; instead of depositing eggs, they 

 had burrowed into the earth and there remained, so that it became a question 

 whether they do not hybernate in the ground, and lay their eggs in the 

 spring, at a time when there would be a better supply than in the autumn 

 of eggs and larvae of the Anthophora. 



Prof. Westwood said both sexes of Meloe violaceus were found in the 

 spring; and suggested whether these had hybernated underground. 



Mr. Pascoe mentioned that near Narbonue he had once seen a dozen 

 specimens of Meloe maiaiis impaled on Cactus opuntia, and as they were 

 quite uninjured except by the spines of the Cactus, the impalement could 

 not have been the work of shrikes. 



Mr. Dunning exhibited Anobium paniceum, both larva and imago, living 

 in and consuming Cayenne pepper ; and read the following note respecting 

 it: — 



* To an annouucement by Mr. Henry Moore of the capture of this insect, tlie 

 Editors of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (vii. 138) append the following 

 note: — "This species, which is not mentioned in either of Giienee's Catalogues, is 

 represented in the British Museum Collection liy a single specimen from Congo, in 

 Africa. Mr. Moore's example was no doubt imported in the pupa state." 



