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A Colony of Colletes founded at Shirley Common.—Mxr. F. 
Smith remarked that specimens of Colletes cunicularia, Linn. 
(C. hirta, St. Fargeau), had been captured hitherto only in 
the Isle of Wight and near Liverpool, and that a number of 
specimens having been forwarded to him from the latter 
place he had transported them to a suitable locality at 
Shirley Common in 1843, and that he had reason to believe 
that he had succeeded in establishing a colony there, as the 
insect had been taken near the same spot in 1874 by 
Mr. d’Arcy Power. 
Frsruary 15, 1875. 
Variety of Strenia clathrata.—Mr. Phipson exhibited a 
singular variety of Strenia clathrata from Basingstoke, the 
wings being nearly unicolorous (fuscous), with a few pale 
Spots. : 
cece Hymenoplera.—Mr. F. Smith exhibited an addi- 
tional collection of Hymenoptera sent from Calcutta by 
Mr. Rothney. It consisted of one thousand five hundred 
and seventy-three specimens of Fossorial Hymenoptera and 
Apide, all in beautiful condition. There were probably not 
more than twenty-five undescribed species; but from twenty 
to thirty species, which were hitherto represented in the 
British Museum by a single sex, were here most fully 
represented. 
Fleas in a Rabbit’s Ears.—Mr. Verrall exhibited a number 
of fleas, taken two days previously, from inside the ears of a 
rabbit, at Lewes. They were gregarious in this situation, 
and in such a position that the animal was unable to dislodge 
them by scratching. 
Colouring Matter from the Cockchaffer.—Mr. Dunning 
called attention to the following extract from a recent French 
paper :—“ The ‘Bulletin des Sciences et Arts’ of Poligny 
(Jura) gives particulars of a curious discovery by Dr. Auguste 
Chevreuse. He had found that in decapitating living cock- 
chaffers, an hour after they have been feeding, they yield four 
or five drops of a colouring substance, which varies with the 
nature of the leaves on which they have been feeding, and he 
has already obtained fourteen different shades. M. Nichlés, 
Professor of Chemistry, M. Préclaire, Professor of Drawing, 
and M. Chatelain, architect, have found that this substance 
