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  Mr. 
  S. 
  Stevens 
  mentioned 
  that 
  one 
  evening, 
  at 
  Mickleham, 
  he 
  saw 
  many 
  Noctute 
  

   attracted 
  to 
  one 
  particular 
  thistle, 
  and 
  upon 
  investigation 
  he 
  found 
  it 
  covered 
  with 
  

   Aphides 
  and 
  their 
  sweet 
  secretion. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Wing 
  said 
  he 
  had 
  seen 
  both 
  Noctuce 
  and 
  Geometrse 
  attracted 
  by 
  the 
  secretion 
  

   of 
  Aphides 
  on 
  gonseberry-biishes 
  ; 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Westwood 
  alluded 
  to 
  the 
  well-known 
  at- 
  

   traction 
  to 
  bees 
  of 
  the 
  lioney-dew 
  deposited 
  by 
  Aphides 
  on 
  the 
  leaves 
  of 
  trees. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  announced 
  that 
  a 
  second 
  field-day 
  excursion 
  of 
  the 
  Members 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society 
  and 
  their 
  friends, 
  would 
  be 
  made 
  to 
  West 
  Wickham 
  Wood, 
  on 
  the 
  9th 
  of 
  July. 
  

  

  August 
  1, 
  1853. 
  

   Samuel 
  Stevens, 
  Esq., 
  F.L.S., 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  donations 
  were 
  announced, 
  and 
  thanks 
  ordared 
  to 
  be 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  

   donors 
  : 
  — 
  The 
  ' 
  Zoologist 
  ' 
  for 
  August 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  ' 
  Athenaeum 
  ' 
  for 
  July 
  ; 
  

   by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  ' 
  Literary 
  Gazette 
  ' 
  for 
  July 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  ' 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society 
  of 
  Arts 
  ' 
  for 
  July 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  ' 
  Bulletin 
  de 
  la 
  Sociele 
  Imperiale 
  des 
  Na- 
  

   turalistes 
  de 
  Moscou,' 
  Nos. 
  3 
  and 
  4, 
  1851, 
  No. 
  1, 
  1852: 
  'Die 
  Coleopterologischen 
  

   Verhaeltnisse 
  und 
  Kafer 
  Russlands,' 
  von 
  Victor 
  v. 
  Motschulsky 
  : 
  both 
  by 
  the 
  Soc. 
  Imp. 
  

   Nat. 
  Moscou. 
  ' 
  Bericht 
  iiber 
  die 
  wissenchaftlichen 
  Leislungen 
  im 
  Gebiete 
  der 
  Ento- 
  

   mologie 
  wahrend 
  des 
  Jahres 
  1851,' 
  von 
  Dr. 
  H. 
  Schaum; 
  Berlin, 
  1853 
  : 
  by 
  the 
  Author. 
  

   ' 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  Scotland,' 
  by 
  Andrew 
  Murray 
  ; 
  Edinburgh, 
  1853 
  : 
  by 
  

   the 
  Author. 
  ' 
  Abhandlungen 
  der 
  Mathemat.-Physikal. 
  Classe 
  der 
  Koeniglich 
  Bayer- 
  

   ischen 
  Akademie 
  der 
  Wissenchaften,' 
  17 
  Band, 
  Istabth., 
  Munchen, 
  1853: 
  Bulletin 
  

   ditto, 
  No. 
  25 
  : 
  ' 
  Ueber 
  den 
  Chemismus 
  der 
  Vegetation,' 
  von 
  Dr. 
  A. 
  Vogel 
  jun., 
  Mun- 
  

   chen, 
  1853 
  : 
  all 
  by 
  the 
  Akademie. 
  ' 
  Transactions 
  of 
  the 
  Linnean 
  Society,' 
  Vol. 
  xxi. 
  

   part 
  2, 
  1853 
  : 
  ' 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Linnean 
  Society,' 
  Nos. 
  48— 
  51 
  : 
  ' 
  List 
  of 
  the 
  Lin- 
  

   nean 
  Society 
  ; 
  ' 
  all 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  ' 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Eoyal 
  Society,' 
  Vol. 
  vi. 
  No. 
  

   97 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  Two 
  specimens 
  of 
  Boletophagus 
  crenatus 
  ; 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Foxcroft. 
  

  

  Viscount 
  Goderich, 
  M.P. 
  ; 
  Captain 
  Cox, 
  Queen's 
  Body 
  Guard; 
  and 
  Henry 
  Evans, 
  

   Esq., 
  Darley 
  Abbey, 
  near 
  Derby, 
  were 
  balloted 
  for 
  and 
  elected 
  Members 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Stevens 
  exhibited 
  a 
  female 
  of 
  the 
  rare 
  Pachetra 
  leucophasa 
  ? 
  taken 
  flying 
  at 
  

   Mickleham, 
  in 
  July 
  ; 
  and 
  an 
  almost 
  black 
  variety 
  of 
  Hadena 
  dentina, 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  

   place. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Wilkinson 
  exhibited 
  living 
  larvae 
  of 
  Incurvaria 
  masculella 
  in 
  their 
  cases, 
  feed- 
  

   ing 
  upon 
  leaves 
  of 
  beech 
  and 
  hornbeam 
  externally, 
  having 
  in 
  a 
  young 
  state 
  fed 
  within 
  

   the 
  cuticles, 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  cases 
  were 
  formed. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Smith 
  exhibited 
  a 
  very 
  large 
  Boletus, 
  found 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Foxcroft 
  on 
  an 
  old 
  birch- 
  

   tree 
  in 
  the 
  Black 
  Forest, 
  Rannoch, 
  from 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  extracted 
  Boletophagus 
  crena- 
  

   tus. 
  He 
  also 
  exhibited 
  a 
  large 
  quantity 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Foxcrofl's 
  captures 
  of 
  Coleoptera, 
  

   Lepidoptera, 
  and 
  Hymenoptera 
  in 
  Perthshire, 
  including 
  many 
  rare 
  species, 
  and 
  among 
  

   the 
  Coleoptera, 
  Lampyris 
  splendidula 
  ? 
  a 
  new 
  British 
  species. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  exhibited 
  Ino 
  Globularia;, 
  taken 
  at 
  Cheltenham 
  in 
  July, 
  being 
  a 
  new 
  

  

  S 
  

  

  