40 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



was the effect produced that the saving to the sugar and coffee planters now 

 was estimated, at least, at £100,000 a year. 



Lieut. -Col. Godwin-Austen read a paper describing specimens (male and 

 female) of Phasianus HumUe, Hume, which had been obtained by Mr. M. 

 Ogle on the peak of Shiroifurar, in N.E. Munipur, upon the Naja Hills. 



A communication was read from Mr. A. Thomson, containing the results 

 of some observations made by him during the rearing of a species of Stick- 

 insect, Bacillus pateUifer, in the Society's Insect House. — P. L. Sclatek, 

 Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



November 1, 1882. — H. T. Stainton, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in 

 the chair. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited living specimens of what he believed 

 to be Conocephalus ensiger, Harris, which he had received from Messrs. 

 J. Veitch & Sons, of Eulham Road, in whose hot-houses the locust had 

 appeared in some numbers; they fed readily on flics and spiders, and bad 

 thriven in captivity for some weeks. Mr. Weir proposed to place the 

 specimens exhibited in the "Insectariuin " of the Zoological Society. 



j\l r. F. P. Pascoe exhibited a curious spider's 

 nest found on the surface of the ground, attached 

 to a stone, at Gagliari, Sardinia. The nest 

 consisted of a silken bag, covered with earth, 

 with a trap-door; it. was quite unknown to the 

 iiev. O. P. Cambridge, and no similar speci- 

 mens were in the British Museum. 



Mr. G. LewU exhibited specimens of 8yn- 



telia indica, Westw., 8 histeroides, Lewis, and 



8pharite8 belonging to the Synteliida; of 



Figulus, Platycerus and Alsalus, n.s., belonging 



to the Lucanidic; and of Saprinus, Holuhpta, 



and a new genus of Histerida ; remarking on the similarity of outline in 



the respective genera of the three families, and referred to his recently 



published note on this subject (Eut. Mo. Mag. xix. 137). 



Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a paper entitled " Heterocerous Lepi- 

 doptera collected in Chili by Thomas Edmonds, Esq. : Part IV. Pyrales 

 and Micros." The collection contained seventy species of these groups, 

 many of which were described as new. Several of Blanchard's genera were 

 reviewed, and some extended remarks were made on Zeller's genus Crypto- 

 lechia. A few supplementary species in groups already treated of were 

 referred to, and five additional species described as new. — E. A. Fitch, 

 IIvii. Secretary. 



