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southwards in mountainous districts, though not in the intervening plains. 

 He mentioned also that Colias Palseno was found near the snow-line in the 

 Alps, and in Lapland. 



Mr. Miiller said that he felt much interested in the remarks offered hy 

 Mr. Bates, as they confirmed his own conclusions, concerning the very close 

 connection, or perhaps even identity, between the Arctic and the Alpine 

 insect-faunas. He referred to one remarkable instance, namely, to the 

 Genus Parnassius, and in particular to P. Apollo, which occurred in most 

 parts of Northern Europe and Asia; but which in Central Europe — i. e. in 

 Switzerland — was confined to the Alps and the opposite Jurassian range, 

 carefully avoiding the intervening alluvial plains, which in the glacial period 

 had been covered by the glaciers of the Pihone, the lleuss, the Rhine, and 

 minor tributaries. He added that if the actual stations of the species were 

 mapped they would all be found to exist outside, but along the moraines 

 left by the ancient glaciers ; and that the same was the case with Delius 

 and Mnemosyne. 



Mr. Albert Miiller was desirous of making some inquiry concerning the 

 literary remains of an entomologist. It was mentioned by Markus Lutz, of 

 Basle, in his ' Moderne Biographien' (Lichtenstieg, 1826, pp. 39 — 40), that 

 Johann Samuel Clemens, a native of Chambery, in Savoy, was a clergyman 

 in the Val d'Hlies (Lower Valais), and that he was a learned naturalist. He 

 is said to have formed a library of 8000 volumes, an herbarium, a collection 

 of minerals and insects of the country ; and is reported to have committed 

 to paper many good observations concerning the Natural History of the 

 Valais, none of which seem to have been published. He is said to have 

 died in 1812. Mr. Miiller said that he would be thankful to any Italian, 

 French or Swiss entomologist who might be able to give information con- 

 cerning the manuscripts of this divine, either by letter to himself or through 

 any entomological publication. 



Mr. Staiuton exhibited a cocoon found by Mr. A. H. Swinton in the 

 crevice of a wall at Kilburn. Its surface was smooth and extremely hard, 

 and it had an oval opening at one end. Mr. M'Lachlan considered that it 

 was an ancient cocoon of Cerura viuula, altered in texture and surface in 

 consequence of the larva hating had to construct it on a wall instead of on 

 a tree-trunk. 



Papers read, dx. 



Dr. Sharp communicated a paper on " The Staphylinidse of Japan," princi- 

 pally from the collection of Mr. George Lewis. 



A paper was read entitled " Notes on the Ephemeridae," by Dr. H. A . 

 Hagen, compiled by the Piev. A. E. Eaton, M.A. — F. G. 



