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  August; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  'Athenaeum' 
  for 
  August; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  'Journal 
  

   of 
  the 
  Society 
  of 
  Arts,' 
  for 
  August 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  ' 
  Smithsonian 
  Contributions 
  to 
  

   Knowledge,' 
  Vol. 
  V. 
  Washington, 
  1853 
  : 
  ' 
  Sixth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  

   Regents 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution:' 
  Norton's 
  ' 
  Literary 
  Register 
  ' 
  for 
  1853: 
  

   ' 
  Portraits 
  of 
  North 
  American 
  Indians, 
  with 
  Sketches 
  of 
  Scenery, 
  &c.' 
  ; 
  all 
  by 
  the 
  

   Smithsonian 
  Institution. 
  ' 
  A 
  Treatise 
  on 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  Insects 
  of 
  New 
  England 
  which 
  

   are 
  injurious 
  to 
  Vegetation,' 
  by 
  Thaddeus 
  William 
  Harris, 
  M.D. 
  Second 
  Edition. 
  

   Boston, 
  1852; 
  by 
  the 
  Author. 
  ' 
  On 
  two 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Calauidse, 
  with 
  Observations 
  

   on 
  the 
  Spermatic 
  Tubes 
  of 
  Ponlella, 
  Diapotamus, 
  &c.,' 
  by 
  John 
  Lubbock, 
  Esq., 
  F.Z.S. 
  ; 
  

   by 
  the 
  Author. 
  ' 
  Bibliotheca 
  Stephensiana 
  ; 
  being 
  a 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Entomological 
  

   Library 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  James 
  Francis 
  Stephens, 
  Esq., 
  F.L.S., 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  preserved 
  

   entire, 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  removed 
  to 
  Mountsfield, 
  Lewisham, 
  where 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  consulted 
  by 
  

   any 
  Entomologist 
  every 
  Wednesday 
  evening, 
  as 
  heretofore.' 
  One 
  copy 
  for 
  the 
  Libra- 
  

   ry, 
  bound, 
  and 
  fifty 
  copies 
  for 
  distribution 
  among 
  the 
  Members 
  ; 
  by 
  H. 
  T. 
  Stainton, 
  

   Esq. 
  ' 
  Revue 
  et 
  Magasiu 
  de 
  Zoologie,' 
  Nos. 
  8 
  — 
  12, 
  for 
  1852, 
  and 
  Nos. 
  1, 
  2, 
  4, 
  5 
  and 
  

   6, 
  for 
  1853 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor, 
  M. 
  Guerin-Meneville. 
  ' 
  Catalogue 
  des 
  Larves 
  des 
  Coleo- 
  

   pteres 
  connues 
  jusqu' 
  a 
  ce 
  jour, 
  avec 
  la 
  Description 
  de 
  plusieurs 
  Especes 
  nouvelles,' 
  

   par 
  M. 
  F. 
  Chapuis, 
  Docteur 
  en 
  Medecine 
  et 
  en 
  Sciences 
  Naturelles, 
  et 
  M. 
  E. 
  Can- 
  

   deze, 
  Docteur 
  en 
  Medecine. 
  Liege, 
  1853 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Authors. 
  Three 
  boxes 
  of 
  butter- 
  

   flies; 
  by 
  Thos. 
  Jones 
  Stevens, 
  Esq., 
  of 
  Bogota, 
  Corresp. 
  M.E.S. 
  Six 
  specimens 
  of 
  

   Aglossa 
  cuprealis, 
  taken 
  in 
  an 
  out-house 
  belonging 
  to 
  a 
  flour 
  and 
  oil 
  mill 
  in 
  Cam- 
  

   bridgeshire 
  ; 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Bond. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Moore 
  exhibited 
  a 
  box 
  of 
  Coleoptera 
  and 
  Lepidoptera, 
  recently 
  captured 
  by 
  

   him 
  at 
  New 
  Brighton, 
  Cheshire. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Weir 
  exhibited 
  Coleophora 
  Inulae 
  ? 
  bred 
  from 
  Eupatorium 
  Cannabinum, 
  Co- 
  

   leophora 
  Wockeella 
  and 
  its 
  larva-case, 
  found 
  attached 
  to 
  a 
  shoot 
  of 
  Genista 
  tinctoria, 
  

   and 
  Gelechia 
  lentigiuosella, 
  bred 
  from 
  Genista 
  tinctoria, 
  all 
  from 
  Pembury, 
  Kent; 
  

   also 
  the 
  larva 
  of 
  a 
  Coleophora 
  found 
  feeding 
  on 
  a 
  capsule 
  of 
  Silene 
  inflata, 
  and 
  Tor- 
  

   trix 
  dumetana 
  from 
  Lewes. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Edwin 
  Shepherd 
  exhibited 
  Coleophora 
  Vulnerariae, 
  Heliothis 
  peltigera, 
  Odon- 
  

   lia 
  dentalis, 
  Pionea 
  margaritalis, 
  and 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  an 
  albino 
  variety 
  of 
  Eudorea 
  

   pyralella, 
  all 
  from 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Dover. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Stevens 
  exhibited 
  a 
  remarkable 
  dark 
  variety 
  of 
  Liraenitis 
  Sybilla 
  from 
  Essex, 
  

   and 
  a 
  new 
  British 
  species 
  of 
  Simaethis 
  from 
  Arundel, 
  captured 
  in 
  August. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Edlestou 
  sent 
  for 
  exhibition 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  a 
  Plusia 
  bractea, 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  sepa- 
  

   rated 
  from 
  the 
  moth 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  ascertain 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  a 
  singular 
  body 
  firmly 
  attached 
  

   to 
  each 
  eye, 
  and 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  ascertained 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  anther 
  of 
  honeysuckle, 
  from 
  the 
  

   flowers 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  moth 
  is 
  known 
  to 
  feed. 
  These 
  anthers 
  were 
  strongly 
  affixed 
  by 
  

   their 
  viscid 
  extremities 
  ; 
  and 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  mentioned 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  seen 
  several 
  other 
  exam- 
  

   ples 
  on 
  this 
  species 
  of 
  moth. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Wing 
  exhibited 
  YpsolojAus 
  Verbascellus, 
  a 
  new 
  British 
  species, 
  bred 
  from 
  

   leaves 
  of 
  V^erbascum 
  floccosum, 
  from 
  Norwich, 
  and 
  Exseretia 
  AUisella, 
  beaten 
  from 
  

   Artemisia 
  campestris 
  near 
  Lowestoft. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  exhibited 
  some 
  Lepidopterous 
  larvae 
  mining 
  in 
  leaves 
  of 
  Cornus 
  san- 
  

   guinea, 
  from 
  which, 
  when 
  full 
  fed, 
  they 
  cut 
  out 
  an 
  oval 
  case 
  in 
  which 
  to 
  pass 
  the 
  win- 
  

   ter. 
  These 
  larvs, 
  he 
  said, 
  were 
  destitute 
  of 
  true 
  legs, 
  and 
  had 
  only 
  indications 
  of 
  

   eight 
  ventral 
  and 
  two 
  anal 
  prolegs. 
  The 
  species 
  of 
  moth 
  produced 
  from 
  them 
  is 
  un- 
  

   known. 
  He 
  likewise 
  exhibited 
  Gelechia 
  Brizella, 
  a 
  species 
  hitherto 
  known 
  as 
  British 
  

  

  