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  1852: 
  ' 
  Bulletins 
  de 
  rAcademie,' 
  tomes 
  xvii. 
  2me 
  paitie, 
  xviii. 
  and 
  xix., 
  1851 
  — 
  52 
  ; 
  

   all 
  presented 
  by 
  the 
  Academie. 
  Two 
  book-cases, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Waring 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  set 
  of 
  book- 
  

   shelves, 
  hy 
  jNIr. 
  Edwin 
  Shepherd. 
  

  

  The 
  Chairman 
  stated 
  that 
  in 
  consequence 
  of 
  several 
  inquiries 
  from 
  the 
  apple-grow- 
  

   ing 
  districts 
  of 
  the 
  country, 
  the 
  Council 
  wished 
  him 
  to 
  announce 
  that 
  the 
  " 
  mussel- 
  

   scale" 
  of 
  the 
  ap|)le, 
  the 
  insect 
  whose 
  natural 
  history 
  the 
  Society 
  had 
  this 
  year 
  proposed 
  

   as 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  a 
  Prize 
  Essay, 
  was 
  the 
  siime 
  as 
  that 
  known 
  in 
  many 
  places 
  as 
  the 
  

   " 
  scale-insect 
  " 
  or 
  " 
  scale-blight 
  " 
  of 
  the 
  apple. 
  

  

  The 
  Chairman 
  also 
  called 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  the 
  Meeting 
  to 
  copies 
  of 
  a 
  Catalogue 
  

   laid 
  upon 
  the 
  table 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Stainlon, 
  for 
  distribution, 
  intituled, 
  'Bibliotheca 
  Slephens- 
  

   iana, 
  being 
  a 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Library 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  James 
  Francis 
  Ste- 
  

   phens, 
  Esq., 
  F.L.S., 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  preser\ed 
  entire, 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  removed 
  to 
  Mounts- 
  

   field, 
  Lewisham, 
  where 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  consulted 
  by 
  any 
  entomologist, 
  every 
  Wednesday 
  

   evening, 
  as 
  heretofore.' 
  

  

  Mr. 
  H. 
  Doubleday 
  presented 
  a 
  beautiful 
  drawing 
  of 
  the 
  underside 
  of 
  a 
  very 
  singu- 
  

   lar 
  variety 
  of 
  Polyommatus 
  Alexis, 
  taken 
  near 
  Cambridge 
  hy 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Rudston 
  Reid. 
  

   The 
  usual 
  ocelli 
  were 
  absent, 
  but 
  on 
  each 
  wing 
  was 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  strong 
  black 
  marks 
  within 
  

   the 
  posterior 
  margin, 
  not 
  extending 
  outwardly 
  beyond 
  the 
  red 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  wings, 
  

   and 
  similarly 
  situated 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  wings, 
  but 
  there 
  the 
  red 
  spots 
  were 
  wanting. 
  Part 
  

   only 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  ocelli 
  were 
  represented 
  by 
  black 
  dots, 
  (PI. 
  xvii. 
  fig. 
  2). 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Bond 
  exhibited 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  a 
  Psyche 
  new 
  to 
  this 
  country, 
  pronounced 
  by 
  M. 
  

   Bruand, 
  who 
  was 
  engaged 
  on 
  a 
  monograph 
  of 
  the 
  Psychidse, 
  to 
  be 
  his 
  P. 
  margineni- 
  

   grella. 
  Mr. 
  Bond 
  reared 
  it 
  from 
  a 
  case 
  which 
  he 
  found 
  attached 
  to 
  a 
  tree, 
  either 
  in 
  

   Lancashire 
  or 
  Yorkshire. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Edwin 
  Shepherd 
  exhibited 
  a 
  larva 
  of 
  Nolodonta 
  Camelina, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  

   attacked 
  and 
  killed 
  by 
  muscardine 
  ; 
  a 
  very 
  pale 
  and 
  little-marked 
  variety 
  of 
  Argynnis 
  

   Euphrosyne 
  ; 
  a 
  unicolorous 
  variety 
  of 
  Fidonia 
  atomaria 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  rare 
  

   Aleucis 
  pictaria, 
  taken 
  on 
  the 
  24th 
  of 
  April 
  last, 
  on 
  the 
  palings 
  at 
  Dartford 
  Heath. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  S. 
  J. 
  Wilkinson 
  exhibited 
  larva-cases 
  of 
  Incurvaria 
  Zinckenii 
  and 
  L 
  mascu- 
  

   lella. 
  They 
  were 
  both 
  of 
  considerable 
  size, 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  broad-oval 
  form, 
  each 
  constructed 
  

   of 
  two 
  pieces 
  of 
  leaf 
  neatly 
  cut 
  out 
  and 
  fastened 
  together 
  at 
  the 
  edges 
  ; 
  the 
  former 
  

   species 
  from 
  the 
  leaf 
  of 
  oak, 
  the 
  latter 
  from 
  the 
  leaf 
  of 
  birch. 
  The 
  perfect 
  insects, 
  

   which 
  he 
  also 
  exhibited, 
  had 
  emerged, 
  leaving 
  the 
  pupa-skin 
  projecting 
  from 
  the 
  case, 
  

   showing 
  that 
  the 
  larva 
  had 
  changed 
  to 
  pupa 
  within 
  the 
  case. 
  He 
  also 
  exhibited 
  three 
  

   specimens 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  Lilhocolletis 
  Nicellii, 
  reared 
  from 
  nut-leaves, 
  and 
  a 
  cocoon 
  of 
  a 
  

   Bucculalrix 
  ? 
  found 
  attached 
  to 
  a 
  fence. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Stevens 
  exhibited 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  fine 
  Goliath 
  beetles, 
  Amarodes 
  Passerinii 
  

   and 
  Eudicella 
  Smithii, 
  lately 
  received 
  from 
  Port 
  Natal. 
  

  

  The 
  Chairman 
  read 
  a 
  note 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Weaver, 
  stating 
  that 
  the 
  insect 
  exhibited 
  at 
  

   the 
  November 
  meeting, 
  reported 
  as 
  Boiitophagus 
  crenicollis, 
  should 
  be 
  B. 
  crenatus 
  ; 
  

   and 
  that 
  anothor 
  Coleopterous 
  insect 
  should 
  be 
  added 
  to 
  his 
  list 
  of 
  discoveries 
  in 
  Scot- 
  

   land, 
  namely, 
  Ampedus 
  tristis, 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  ft-.mily 
  Elateridre. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  letter 
  was 
  read 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  "Liverpool, 
  April 
  30, 
  1853. 
  

   "Sir, 
  

  

  " 
  Perhaps 
  the 
  following 
  hints 
  may 
  not 
  prove 
  uninteresting 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  

   the 
  members 
  of 
  your 
  Society. 
  At 
  your 
  meeting 
  on 
  the 
  4th 
  of 
  April, 
  a 
  communication 
  

  

  