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work is to be published in the Russian language, with Latin diagnoses of 
the new species. 
Mr. Bates alluded to an insect figured in the plate as Colias Nastes, var. 
Cocandica. C. Nastes had, hitherto, only been found m Lapland {var. Wer- 
dandi) and in Labrador and Arctic America, and it was a striking instance 
of the manner in which some species inhabiting the Arctic regions are found 
southwards in mountainous districts, though not iu the intervening plains. 
He mentioned also that Colias Palseno was found near the snow-liue in the 
Alps, and in Lapland. 
Mr. Miiller said that he felt much interested in the remarks offered by 
Mr. Bates, as they confirmed his own conclusions, concerning the very close 
connection, or perhaps even identity, between the Arctic and the Alpine 
insect-faunas. He referred to one remarkable instance, namely, to the Genus 
Parnassius, and in particular to P. Apollo, which occurred in most parts of 
Northern Europe and Asia; but which in Central Europe — i.e. in Switzer- 
land — was confined to the Alps and the opposite Jurassian range, carefully 
avoiding the intervening alluvial plains, which in the glacial period had been 
covered by the glaciers of the Rhone, the lleuss, the Rhine, and minor tribu- 
taries. He added that if the actual stations of the species were mapped they 
would all be found to exist outside, but along the moraines left by the ancient 
glaciers ; and that the same was the case with Delius and Mnemosyne. 
Mr. Albert Miiller was desirous of making some inquiry concerning the 
literary remains of an entomologist. It was mentioned by Markus Lutz, of 
Basle, iu his ' Moderne Biographieu' (Lichteustieg, 1826, pp. 39 — 40), that 
Johann Samuel Clemens, a native of Chambery, in Savoy, was a clergyman 
in the Val d'lUies (Lower Valais), and that he was a learned naturalist. He 
is said to have formed a library of 8000 volumes, an herbarium, a collection 
of minerals and insects of the country ; and is reported to have committed 
to paper many good observations concerning the Natural History of the 
Valais, none of which seem to have been published. He is said to have 
died in 1812. Mr. Miiller said that he would be thankful to any Italian, 
French or Swiss entomologist who might be able to give information con- 
cerning the manuscripts of this divine, either by letter to himself or through 
any entomological publication. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited a cocoon found by Mr. A. H. Swinton iu the 
crevice of a wall at Kilburn. Its surface was smooth and extremely hard, 
and it had an oval opening at one end. Mr. IM'Lachlan considered that it 
was an ancient cocoon of Cerura vinula, altered in texture and surface in 
consequence of the larva having had to construct it on a wall instead of on 
a tree-trunk. 
Papers read, d-c. 
Dr. Sharp communicated a paper on " The Staphylinidae of Japan," princi- 
pally from the collection of Mr. George Lewis. 
