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writer's signature without warrant, and this unfortunately passed through 
press, escaping our notice.—Ep. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
EntomotoeicaL Society or Lonpon. 
August 1, 1877.—J. W. Dunnina, Esq., M.A., F.L.8., Vice-President, 
in the chair. 
Mr. Stevens exhibited specimens of Teretrius picipes (Fab.), one of the 
Histeride, which he’ had taken on the same fence, at Norwood, on which 
he had previously taken Tillus wnifasciatus. He also remarked on the 
appearance in his neighbourhood of a second brood of Colias Edusa, several 
specimens having been observed by him, all of which were males. 
Mr. Smith exhibited, on behalf of Dr. Bennett, of Sydney, who was 
present at the meeting, a fine pair of the beautiful and rare beetle Hupholus 
Bennettii (Gestro), from Yule Island, New Guinea. It had been described 
under that name in the ‘ Annali di Museo Civico di Genova,’ viii. 1876. 
The Secretary exhibited a specimen of an insect which had been for- 
warded to him by Mr. Bewicke Blackburn, who stated that a large field of 
mangolds belonging to the Knight of Kerry, in the Island of Valentia, had 
been totally destroyed by it. The specimen was examined by several of the 
members, who agreed that it was the larva of a Coleopterous insect, but in 
consequence of its imperfect condition it could not be determined. 
Mr. Douglas, who was unable to be present at the meeting, had forwarded | 
to Mr. Jenner Weir a letter he had received from Mr. R. A. Ogilvie, 
enclosing specimens of an insect found in great quantities in a jar of pickles 
(piccalilly). They confined their attacks to the pieces of cauliflower in the 
jar, which they: appeared to relish, notwithstanding the vinegar, mustard, 
pepper, &c., in the pickles, The specimens had been submitted to Professor 
Westwood, who replied that “ the flies were the common Drosophila cellaris, 
with their curious two-horned pupe; and they frequent cellars and cup- 
boards, delighting in stale beer, wine, &c.” He supposed that “ the cauli- 
flowers were more to their-taste than the other things in the jar, being 
more succulent and flabby.” In answer to a question put by Mr. Ogilvie, 
he said that the eggs were laid in the pickle-jar, and not in the vegetables 
before they were pickled. 
Mr. Douglas also forwarded a letter he had received from Mr. A. H. 
Swinton, of Guildford, enclosing a specimen of Myrmica ruginodis, which, 
on being placed under a wine-glass, stationed itself at the rim, head down- 
wards, and rapidly vibrating the abdomen, continued “an intense noise,” 
resembling the spiracular piping of the Dipteron, Syrilla pipiens. 
