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nigro-aeneum, subtus aiigulatum, basi cupreo-asneum nitentius : 



pedes fulvi ; propedes flavi ; coxae aenese ; ungues et pulvilli 



fusci ; meso- et metapedum genua et tarsi pallide fiava, hi apice 



fusci : alje subflavescentes : squamul^ fulvae ; nervi pallidiores ; 



stigma minutum. (Corp long. 1 — 15 lin. ; alar. 1| — If lin.) 

 Var. /3. — Caput et thorax obscure cupreo-senea, ilium postice viride : 



abdomen cupreo- viride, basi nitentius ; discus nigro-seneus : alae 



vix subflavescentes. 

 Var. y. — ^neus : caput viride : antennae pallide fuscae ; articulus 



1"^ flavus : abdomen nigro-asneum, basi viride nitentius ; 



segmenta apicalia viridescentia : coxas virides ; profemora fulva : 



alae omnino perlucidae. 



August; near London. New Lanark, Scotland. 



Art. XXVin. — Entomological Society. 

 Seventh Sitting. — April 7. 



We observed Dr. Ure among the strangers present. 



The President informed the meeting that Mr. Walker and 

 Mr. Newman had withdrawn their names from the council of 

 the Society, and that it was necessary that the vacancies thus 

 occasioned in the council list be filled up by the Society. The 

 council had met on the subject, and had agreed to propose to 

 the meeting the name of Mr. Hanson, instead of Mr. W^alker, 

 and the name of Dr. Roget, instead of Mr. Newman.. 



The Secretary read letters from M. Wiedemann and 

 M. Lefebvre, who had been elected honorary members of the 

 Society. 



The Secretary read a paper by Mr. Spence, detailing a 

 curious mode, adopted in Italy, of excluding the house-fly 

 from houses. The plan consisted simply in straining a net, 

 made of white thread, across the aperture of an open window: 

 the meshes of the net were about half-an-inch in diameter. It 

 had occurred to Mr. Spence, whether it could be the dread of 

 a spider's-net which caused the flies to avoid this thread-net, 

 but on consideration he had determined otherwise, and he was 



