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yere welowes bore roses, red and frech; and that was in Januarie,’ p. 207. This is 
another proof to be added to those accumulating daily, that the strange histories to be 
found in the records of past ages are not, for the most part, deliberate fables, but 
truths ill understood, or facts seen out of their proper perspective. There is a story 
told by an Irish writer, of a certain willow tree, which, having received the blessing of 
~§. Coénginus, straightway began to bear apples. (Lau. Beyerlinck, Theat. Vite 
_ Humane, t.1, p.921a). It is highly probable that the foundation of this legend must 
be sought in a similar direction. 
“Yours, &c., 
“‘ Epwarp PEacock.” 
Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited a number of galls collected during the previous 
year in Southern Syria by Mr. B. T. Lowne. One was on a species of Acacia, from 
Engedi; another was of scaly or flaky material placed round the stems of Atriplex 
Italinus, from the Dead Sea; a third, probably the gall of a Dipterous insect, was on 
a grass; a fourth kind occurred on Reaumuria, from Ain Terebeh, Dead Sea; a fifth 
on Xrua Javanica, from Engedi; a sixth on a Salvia, from the same locality ; anda 
seventh kind was found on a species of Tamarix, at Ain Terebeh. With respect to the 
first two, Mr. Saunders was unable to say with certainty whether they were the nidi of 
insects; the gall on the tamarisk bore great resemblance to that described and 
figured in the ‘Transactions’ some years ago (see Trans, Ent. Soc. v. 27, pl. ii. 
figs. 5—9), and was probably caused by one of the Buprestidae. Mr. Saunders hoped 
to breed some of the perfect insects, and on a future occasion to supply further infor- 
mation, or at all events to lay before the Society accurate drawings of the galls. 
Mr. F. Moore exhibited a small collection of Lepidoptera lately received, by post, 
from Captain A. M. Lang, from the North-Western Himalaya. It included various 
Polyommati; a fine new Chrysophanus from Kunawur; a small Anthocharis, allied to 
A. Cardamines, also from Kunawur; two undescribed species of Pieris—one allied to 
P. Mesentina—from the Runang Pass (14,800 feet elevation); a specimen of Pieris 
Daplidice, which was found in considerable numbers in the village fields along the 
Spiti River; Gonepteryx Wallichii from the north of Simla; Parnassius Jacquemontii 
and P. Hardwickii—the former from the bigh passes (18,000 feet) in Upper Kunawur, 
Spiti and Tibet, the latter from the Runang Pass (14,800 feet). Of Nymphalide there 
were Argynnis Kamala and A. Jainadeva from the Simla district and Kunawur; 
a new Limenitis, allied to L. Sybilla, from North of Simla; a beautiful little Melitea 
from the Kongma Pass leading from Kunawur into Chinese Tibet. Of Satyride, five 
new species of Lasiommatus, Hipparchia and Erebia, from the mountain slopes of Spiti, 
Upper Kunawar, and Tibet. Lastly, a single specimen of the curious form figured by 
Bremer, in ‘ Lepidopteren Ost Sibiriens, as Callidula Felderi. 
Mr. F. Moore also exhibited two Entomogenous Fungi found at Darjeeling by 
Mr. A. E. Russell—similar to that figured in plate 277 of vol. iii. of Cramer’s Pap. 
Exot., upon a species of Sphinx (Pachylia achemenides) from Surinam. One of these 
parasitic Fungi was upon a male imago of the common Indian Lepidopterous insect, 
Spiramia retorta (Noctuide, Fam. Hypopyrid), and the other upon the imago ofa 
species of an undetermined Geometrideous genus. Both these moths had the fungus 
springing, in more or less lengthened hair-like filaments, from the body, legs, palpi, 
antenne, and along the nervures (but not from the membranous portion) of the wings 
on the upper side. Mr. Moore was informed by Mr. M. C. Cooke that these peculiar 
Fungi belong to the doubtful genus Isaria, the majority of the species of which are 
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