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Society. ' Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Normandie,' 2e Ser., t. \i. ; 

 by the Society. 'Bullettino della Societa Entoraologica Italiana,' t. v., 

 trim, 4 ; by the Society. ' The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. vi. no. 1 ; by 

 the Editor. ' Newman's Entomologist ' and the ' Zoologist ' for March ; by 

 the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for March ; by the 

 Editors. ' L'Abeille, 1874,' 6e livr. ; by the Editor. ' A Synonymic List of 

 British Lepidoptera,' by Henry Doubleday, Second Edition, with Supple- 

 ment, 1873 ; by J. W. Dunning, Esq. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited two male examples of an Orthopterous insect 

 belonging to the family Locustidse, which had been placed in his hands by 

 Mr. Daniel Hanbury, who received them some years since from his brother 

 at Shanghai. It appeared from Mr. Hanbury 's statements that these 

 insects were sold in the streets of Shanghai, confined in little ornamental 

 wicker cages, and bought for the sound they produced. The species 

 appeared to be undescribed, and to pertain to a new genus, somewhat 

 allied to Xiphidium. The President remarked that in Turkey a kind of 

 cricket was kept in a similar manner in paper cages and fed upon lettuce- 

 leaves. 



Mr. M'Lachlan also exhibited a series of examples illustrating the natural 

 history of Oniscigaster Wakefieldi from New Zealand, described and figured 

 by him from the female imago, in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' 

 X. pp. 108 — 110 (October, 1873). He had now received from Mr. Wake- 

 field a second series of specimens, including the male imago, female sub- 

 imago, adult nymph and larva. The lateral wing-like horny expansions of 

 the terminal segments of the abdomen in the imago and sub-imago are 

 continued in the aquatic conditions on each segment of the abdomen, and 

 in addition there are similar formations along the back of the abdomen 

 placed longitudinally and vertically. 



Mr. M'Lachlan further remarked that in the Bulletin of the Proceedings 

 of the French Entomological Society, at the Seance of the y8th January 

 last, M. Guenee avowed himself much puzzled concerning the supposed 

 aquatic larva producing a species of moth, described by M. Bar as Palustra 

 Laboulbenei, which he considered was allied to the genus Cnethocampa. 

 He thought further information very desirable, for all the characters of the 

 insect were opposed to aquatic habits in any stage ; and he suggested that 

 the bubbles of air entangled in the hairs might be only expired air. 



The Kev. A. E. Eaton exhibited a few Arctic insects which he had 

 brought from Spitsbergen. Amongst others were a Trichopterous insect, 

 probably Goniotaulius arcticus, Boheman ; and also some Lepidoptera, 

 Plutella cruciferarum, the larva of which feeds on a species of Draba and a 

 species of Phycita, near to sub-ornatella. They were mostly collected on the 



