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approaching red. As time goes on the brown becomes deeper, and when the green 

 leaves shoot forth in spring the galls drop oflF. The likeness to a rose is ol'ten so com- 

 plete that an uninstructed person might easily be led to the absurd conclusion that he 

 bad seen roses growing on willows. That this opinion was current at one time is 

 proved by ihe following entry in the chronicle of John Capgrave, 1338 : ' In that same 

 yere welowes bore roses, red and frech ; and that was in Januarie,' p. 207. This is 

 another proof to be added to those accumulating daily, ihat the strange histories to be 

 found in the records of past ages are not, for the most part, deliberate fables, but 

 truths ill understood, or facts seen out of their proper perspective. There is a story 

 told by an Iiish writer, of a certain willow tree, which, having received the blessing of 

 S. Coenginus, straightway began to bear apples. (Xxu. Beyerlinck, Tlieal. Vitm 

 Humancp, t. 1, p. 931a), It is highly probable that the foundation of this legend must 

 be sought in a similar direction. 



" Yours, &c., 



" Edward Peacock." 



Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited a number of galls collected during the previous 

 year in Southern Syria by Mr. B. T. Lowne. One was on a species of Acacia, from 

 Engedi ; another was of scaly or flaky material placed round the stems of Atriplex 

 Italinus, from the Dead Sea; a third, probably the gall of a Dipterous insect, was on 

 a grass; a fourth kind occurred on Reaumuria, from Ain Terebeh, Dead Sea; a fifth 

 on ^rua Javanica, from Engedi ; a sixth on a Salvia, from the same locality ; and a 

 seventh kind was found on a species of Tamarix, at Ain Terebeh. With respect to the 

 first two, Mr. Saunders was unable to say with certainty whether they were the nidi of 

 insects ; the gall on the tamarisk bore great resemblance to that described and 

 figured in the 'Transactions' some years ago (see Trans. Ent. Soc. v. 27, pi. ii. 

 figs. 5 — 9), and was probably caused by one of the Buprestidas. Mr. Saunders hoped 

 to breed some of the perfect insects, and on a future occasion to supply further infor- 

 mation, or at all events to lay before the Society accurate drawings of the galls. 



Mr. F. Moore exhibited a small collection of Lepidoplera lately received, by post, 

 from Captain A. M. Lang, from the Norlh-Western Himalaya. It included various 

 Polyommati; a fine new Cbrysophanus from Kunawur; a small Anthocharis, allied to 

 A. Cardamines, also from Kunawur; two undescribed species of Pieris — one allied to 

 P. Mesentina— from the Runang Pass (14,800 feet elevation); a specimen of Pieris 

 Daplidice, which was found in considerable numbers in the village fields along the 

 Spili River; Gonepteryx Wallichii from the north of Simla; Pariiassius Jacquemonlii 

 and P. Hardwickii^the former from the high passes (18,000 feet) in Upper Kunawur, 

 Spiti and Tibet, the latter from the Runang Pass (14,800 feet). Of Nymphalidae there 

 were Argynnis Kamala and A. Jainadeva from the Simla district and Kunawur; 

 a new Limenitis, allied to L. Sybilla, from North of Simla ; a beautiful little Melilaea 

 from the Kongma Pass leading from Kunawur into Chinese Tibet. Of Satyridse, five 

 new species of Lasiommatus, Hipparchia and Erebia, from the mountain slopes of Spiti, 

 Upper Kunawur, and Tibet. Lastly, a single specimen of the curious form figured by 

 Bremer, in ' Lepidoptereu ost Sibiriens,' as Callidula Felderi. 



Mr. F. Moore also exhibited two Entomogenous Fungi found at Darjeeling by 

 Mr. A. E. Russell— similar to that figured in plate 277 of vol. iii. of Cramer's Pap. 

 Exot., upon a species of Sphinx (Pachylia achemenides) from Surinam. One of these 

 parasitic Fungi was upon a male imago of the common Indian Lepidopterous iusect, 



