The Zoologist — Octoher, 1866. 461 



Isle of Man by Mr. Gregson, and including Dianlhoecia ciesia, D. capsophila, Sesia 

 pliilantliifovrais, Sericoiis littorana, Eupcecilia albica|iitana, Sciaphila Colquhounana, 

 GeJechia vicinella and G. leucomelanella (ivbich Air. Gvegsoii believed to be but one 

 species), a new species of Gelechia, and the new Pliycis, allied to P. dilutella, of which 

 Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen at the July Meeting: (Zool. S. S. 323.) 



Mr. Siainton exhibited Gelechia vicinella, which had been bred by Mr. Gregson 

 from larvas collected iu the Isle of Man, feeding on Silene niaritima and Gelechia 

 atrella, which had been bred by Mr. Jtffiey from larvae collected near Saffron Walden, 

 feeding in the stems of Hypericum. The first-named species belonged to the group of 

 which the larvae are all attached to plants of the natural order Caryophyllaceif , but 

 Gelechia atrella had always been supposed to belong to the group of species attached to 

 plants of the natural order Legurainosae, and its occurrence on Hypericum was so 

 startling that Mr. Stainlon had at first suspected some error of observation ; however, 

 Mr. Jeffrey's statements were positive and conclusive, that he had bred fourteen speci- 

 mens in three different receptacles, one of which had not been previously used for 

 larvae, and that he had not collected any larvae feeding on Leguminosae before the first 

 imago of G. atrella had appeared. The habit of the larva was, moreover, very peculiar ; 

 it burrowed in the stems of the Hypericum early in May, and thereby caused the upper 

 shoots of the plant to droop, which had led to its discovery. 



Mr. Siainton also exhibited a series of Micro-Lepidoptera received from M. 

 Miliiere, of Lyon ; amongst which were specimens of the Depressaria Rutana of 

 Fabricius (a species which had been lost sight of for many years), bred from Ruta 

 angustifolia, at Cannes, and of a new species of Gelechia nearly allied to G. costella, 

 which had been bred from Hyoscyamus albus, at Cannes. Mr. Stainton remarked that 

 our common G. costella was hardly known on the Continent ; he had never seen a 

 specimen in Germany : indeed the only Continental example he had seen was from 

 Holland ; yet the food-plant, Solanum dulcamara, was extensively distributed. The 

 occurrence, therefore, of an allied species feeding on a nearly allied plant in the South 

 of France was very interesting. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited some coloured drawings of butterflies of extreme beauty 

 and most minute accuracy, executed without the aid of a lens by Mr. Mitchell, who 

 was present as a visitor. 



The Secretary exhibited a curious variety of Melanippe fluctuata, found by 

 Mr. E. S. Haines at rest on a wall at Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, in 1864; it bore 

 considerable resemblance to the form described by Hawortb under the name of 

 costovata. 



The Secretary exhibited drawings of the larva, pupa and both sexes of the imago 

 of a new Geometrideous moth belonging to the genus Agathia, Guen.; these were 

 communicated by Mr. H. L. Schrader of Shanghai, who found the larva on Salix 

 pentandra, but they for some time escaped detection by reason of their resemblance to 

 the remains of a leaf of which the softer parts had been eaten away. Four of the 

 larvae were found in the neighbourhood of Shangiiai on the 1st of August, 1865; they 

 were then about an inch long; between the 8th and the 14th they changed to pupae ; 

 a cocoon was formed (but so slight that the pupa was visible through it) and attached 

 to the stem of a twig, the head of the pupa resting in the angle between the stem and 

 a leaf-stalk; two males emerged on the 20th and 24ih of August respectively, and one 

 female on the 21st. 



