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are, they drop the instant you move anything near them. If all is well I wili 

 endeavour to obtain you some bye-and-bye, and send them to you alive." 



Dr. Alexr. Wallace mentioned, tluit on recently repairing the roof of an old church 

 at Colchester, which had been attacked by Auobium, it was found that the damage 

 was chiefly confined to the south side, the other sides being but slightly affected ; this 

 was the case both with the nave and aisles. Could it be that the beetles selected the 

 south side from its greater warmth ? 



Mr. McLachlan enquired if the same description of wood was used throughout? 

 Dr. Wallace believed so ; all that he saw was oak. 



Prof. Westwood said, if it were oak the depredator was doubtless Anobium tessel- 

 latum; there might be other reasons than the warmth which took the beetles to the 

 south side; the prevalence of particular winds, or greater exposure to rain, might 

 make the wood more liable to decay, or more attract! t-e and palatable to the insects. 



Mr. StaintoD announced with regret the recent death of Senator von Heyden, of 

 Frankfort, from an accidental fall, in the 73id year of bis age. 



Mr. Stainton also announced the arrival of Mr. Wollaston at the Cape de Verdes: 

 the examination of two small islands had already yielded 150 species of Coleoptera. 



Prof. Westwood mentioned that in the Stett. Ent. Zeit. just published was a figure 

 of a gyuandromorphous Dytiscus (male on the right side, female on the left), very 

 much resembling that described and figured by him in the third vol. of the 'Trans- 

 actions,' p. 203, |)1. xi. Mr. McLachlan added that, in the same publication, a 

 gyuandromorphous Arjrynnis Paphia was mentioned, the right side of which was 

 female and the left side male, and which had this additional peculiarity that the 

 female portion was of the form known as var. Valesina. Prof Westwood said that a 

 similar gyuandromorphous variety had been recorded in the publications of one of the 



Belgian societies. 



Papers read. 



Mr. Baly communicated the concluding portion of his paper entitled "New 

 Genera and Species of Gallerucidee " ; cont lining descriptions of four new species of 

 the genus Cerotoraa. 



Mr. Hewitson communicated the concluding portion of his paper entitled 

 " Descriptions of New Species of Hesperidae " ; comprising seventeen additional 

 species of the genus Hesperia. — J. TV. D. 



Colias Edusa in Ireland. — In September last, when taking a walk round the Hill 

 of Howth, on the north side of Dublin Bay, I was both surprised and pleased to see 

 Colias Edusa, formerly familiar to me in the Isle of Wight. I caught one specimen 

 on Howth, just to make sure of the species, and a few days afterwards again met with 

 this beautiful butterfly near .Malahide, a little further north, on the Dublin coast. — 

 A. G. More; December, 1805. 



Polyommalus Hippolhoe and Limenilis Camilla in Ireland. — Some years since, 

 when botanizing in the county of Kerry, at the south-eastern extremity of Castlemaine 

 Harbour, where extensive marshes stretch towards Milllown, Mr. Andrews noticed a 

 swifi-flying insect, which he had attempted to capture: from its size and brilliancy of 

 colour he was satisfied that it could be none other but the -large copper butterfly 



