392 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. Enock remarked, with reference to a spider which had been exhibited 
by Sir Sidney Saunders at a previous meeting as Atypus Sulzeri, that he 
had taken the specimen himself at Hampstead, and that he had since 
referred it to the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, who stated that the insect 
was certainly not A. Sulzeri, but that he considered it to be A. Beckii 
(Cambridge), which would probably be found to be the same as A. piceus 
(Thorell), though he was not certain, as the only female which he had of 
that species was too much damaged to admit of any satisfactory comparison, 
The type of A. Beckii was an adult male given to him by the late Richard 
Beck, who was uncertain of the locality, though Mr. Cambridge appeared to 
think it probable that he had got it from Hampstead, as he often collected 
there. The example seut to him by Mr. Enock was different from the Isle 
of Wight species, of which he had several female specimens, but no males, 
though he believed them to be A. Sulzeri. He would be very glad if 
collectors in the Hampstead locality would look out for the males in the 
autumn and winter, as if he could obtain that sex it would enable him to 
put the question, as to species, at rest. 
Mr. Enock exhibited a bottle containing a great number of larve of 
Cossus ligniperda, which he had found in a portion of a small willow. He 
had taken fifty-six larvee out of a piece of wood four feet long. 
Mr. Dunning again directed the attention of members to the exhibition 
by Mr. Jenner Weir, at the last meeting, of a female specimen of Cicada 
montana, which was reported to have been distinctly heard to stridulate, 
notwithstanding that the insect was a female, and also that the species 
was one of which even the males were not previously known to stridulate. 
Mr. Weir stated that since the last meeting he had again been to the New 
Forest, and had seen, in the possession of Mr. James Gulliver, of Ramnor, 
near Brockenhurst, two specimens of Cicada montana, and he was assured 
by Mr. Gulliver that the stridulation of the insect was well known to him, 
and that he was guided by the sound so made in effecting the capture. 
Mr. Champion said that he himself had captured the insect, and had distinctly 
heard a loud buzzing noise, but whether the sound was caused by the males 
or females he could not say. Mr. Dunning considered that further evidence 
was waiting to prove stridulation in the females. 
A paper was read by Mr. W. F. Kirby, entitled “ Notes on the new or 
rare Sphingidé in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society; with remarks 
on Mr. Butler’s recent Revision of the Family.” 2 
Papers were also communicated, by Mr. J. S. Baly, on “ en, © 
of new Genera and Species of Cryptocephalide,” and by the Rev. H 
Gorham—* Descriptions of new Species of Cleride.” 
