162 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
larve of Carpini on chestnut, which they seemed to prefer to 
anything else, as they would leave both heath and birch for 
it—H. Jones; Hawley, Farnborough Station. 
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 
of London. 
JANUARY 5, 1876. 
Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the chair. 
Lepidoptera of the Higher Alps.—The Rev. R. P. Murray 
exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera taken by himself in the 
Higher Alps, amongst which were some interesting mountain 
varieties. 
ZEschna mixta at Norwood.—Mr. 8. Stevens exhibited a 
specimen of a dragonfly, rare in this country (Aéschna 
mixta), which he had picked up, nearly dead, in his garden 
at Upper Norwood, in the middle of November. 
British Coleoptera.—Mr. Champion exhibited specimens 
of Coleoptera, viz., Aleochara hibernica, L?ye, taken at Slieve 
Donardh, Ireland; Homalota egregia, Rye, from Caterham ; 
and Cryptophagus subfumatus, Gyl/., taken in the London 
district. 
Remarkable Species of Allacus.—Mr. W. H. Miskin, of 
Queensland, communicated a description of a new and 
remarkable species of moth belonging to the genus Attacus, 
of which a male and a female specimen had been taken in 
the neighbourhood of Cape York. He had named the species 
A. Hercules. The expanse of the wings measured nine inches, 
and the hind wings were furnished with tails. The specimens 
had been deposited in the Queensland Museum, 
JANUARY 24, 1876—ANNUAL MEETING. 
Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the chair. 
(The President gave an able summary of the progress of 
Entomology during the year, from which the following are 
extracts. | 
Bees and Wasps.—Sir John Lubbock has recorded in the 
‘Journal of the Linnean Society’ (May, 1875, No. 69) various 
interesting experiments in continuation of bis “ Observations 
on Bees, Wasps, and Ants:” tending to show that bees “do 
