4 The Zoologist — January, 1866. 



and became fixed upon the rock upon a small spot of which the passengers were landed. 

 " On landing it was found that the little islet or bank of sand was covered with pig- 

 weed, but there were no signs of water. . . . The island seemed quite covered 

 with birds, which from their very wildness took no more notice of men or women than 

 to move a few feet out of our way. The ground swarmed with a large species of earwig, 

 and was in many places honeycombed by the holes of land-crabs."' He was curious 

 to know what pig-weed was, and whether the so-called earwigs were really Forficulae: 

 the reef was probably a recently-raised coral reef, and it would be very interesting to 

 learn what were the first insect-forms which effecied a settlement upon the newly- 

 formed island. 



The President read the following : — 



Note on Calamobius and Hippopsis. — When M. James Thomson, in his ' Essai, &c.,' 

 referred Slenidea to Blabinotus, he was immediately followed by Schaum, Grenier 

 and de Marseul in their respective Catalogues. I directly called altenlion to that 

 mistake, and it is now admitted. In his more recently published ' Systeraa Ceramby- 

 cidarum,' M. Thomson refers Calamobius [Guirin) to Hippopsis {ServiUe), and in this 

 I am surprised to see that he has been followed by M. Leon Fairmaire in the ' Genera 

 des Coleopteres.' The two genera agree, it is true, in their slender habit, but they 

 arc perfectly distinct, and do not belong even to ilie same sub-family. Calamobius 

 lias 12-j(iinted antennae, with antennary tubers non-approximate and nearly obsolete, 

 small facets to the eyes, and small claw-joints; Hippopsis has 11-joinied antennae, 

 with well-developed tubers contiguous at the base and nearly erect, coarsely granulated 

 eyes, and large claw-joints, as long as the three other joints of the tarsus taken together, 

 whilst in Calamobius they scarcely form more than one-third of its length— a structure 

 indicating different habits of life." 



Mr. Hewitson communicated the following note : — 



" It is interesting and worthy of notice that, in the second part of the Annals of 

 the Entomological Society of France for this year, there is a tigure of a variety of Chry- 

 sophanus viigaureae from Zermatt, upwards of 6000 feet high in the Swiss Alps, which 

 has a row of pale blue spots on the posterior wing, exactly resembling specimens of 

 Chrysophanus Phloeas which we have lately received from the northern highlands of 

 India. This variety of C. Phlceas is figured in Cramer, pi. 186, under the name of 

 Timeus." 



The Secretary announced the receipt of a communication from Mr. G. J. Bowles, 

 Sec. Ent. Soc. of Canada, Quebec Branch, dated September 1, 1865, " On the occur- 

 rence of Pieris Rapte in Canada." The principal part of it was an almost verbatim copy 

 of a paper originally published in 'The Canadian Naturalist,' and thence transferred 

 to the ' Zoologist' for 1864 ( Zool. 9371). The following was new matter :— 



" The species is rapidly extending the limits of its habitat. It is already common 

 on both banks of the Si. Lawrence for one hundred miles^below Quebec ; and this 

 summer I saw two specimens in the cabinet of a gentleman in Montreal, captured this 

 season in that city. It is still rare, however, in that locality. In the vicinity of 

 Quebec the species was exceedingly abundant in 1863 and 1864, flying by hundreds 

 over the fields and gardens, and was numerous even in the most crowded parts of 

 the ciiy. This year, however, it has not been quite so abundant, probably owing to 



