THE ENTOMOLOGIST. _ 59 
not successful. Ought I to have tried later? I then thought 
it was a bad night, and gave up. 
[I believe there is no stated time. It is usual to sugar a 
great number of trees, and then take the round of them in 
regular succession every half hour, beginning at dusk; but I 
cannot boast of much experience in this matter, not liking 
night-work.— Edward Newman.) 
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 
of London. 
DECEMBER 7, 1874, and JANUARY 4, 1875. 
Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the 
chair. 
British Oak-galls.—Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited some oak- 
galls of Dryocosmus cerriphilus, Gi., Aphilothrix globuli, 
Hart., A. albopunctata, Schl., and A. callidoma, Hart. ; 
together with three curious bud-galls, unknown, from Ray- 
leigh, Essex. 
Hemiptera of the Mediterranean.—Mr. Champion exhi- 
bited an interesting collection of Hemiptera, brought from 
the Mediterranean by Mr. J. J. Walker. Amongst them were 
Trigonosoma Desfontainei, from Cagliari; Phyllomorpha 
laciniata, from Gibraltar; and Prionolytus Helferi, from 
Tangier. : 
Beetles in Tea.—Prof. Westwood forwarded a letter he 
had received from Mr. J. F. M. Harris Stone, accompanying 
a sample of tea imported from Shanghae, infested by a small 
beetle, which proved to be Niptus hololeucus, an insect 
belonging to a genus, the species of which feed indifferently 
on dried vegetable as well as animal matter. 
[A full account of this beetle, so far as known, appeared in 
the February ‘Entomologist’ (Entom. viii. 43).— H. Newman. ] 
Phylloxera Vastatrix in Switzerland.—Prof. Westwood 
also communicated a letter from Prof. Forel, of Lausanne, 
stating that the Phylloxera Vastatrix had made its appear- 
ance among some vines at Pregny, in the canton of Geneva, 
which had been introduced from England into the graperies 
of Baron Rothschild, and that the Phylloxera had been 
