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down, after having pinioned them, with the Common Geese; both parties 

 seemed shy at first, but they soon associated, and remained very good 

 friends." Mr. Cordeaux, in his 'Birds of the Humber District' (p. 147), 

 refers to the Greylag as " at one period a permanent resident in our country, 

 breeding in considerable numbers in the fens of Lincolnshire and carrs of 

 Yorkshire," but he does not tells us when they ceased to breed there. Nor 

 does Mr. W. E. Clarke give any information on this point in the ' Hand- 

 book of Yorkshire Vertebrates,' contenting himself with the remark (p. 53) 

 that the Greylag " has long ceased to breed in the Yorkshire carrs, where 

 it was formerly abundant and resident." Perhaps when Mr. Stevenson 

 publishes the third volume of his ' Birds of Norfolk ' (which let us hope will 

 be soon) he will enlighten us as to the last breeding-place of the Greylag in 

 the Eastern Counties. — J. E. Harting. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. 



July 4, 1883.— Prof. J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c, Hon. Life- 

 President, in the chair. 



A. Eland Shaw, Esq. (92, Elgin Road, Harrow Road, W.), was balloted 

 for and elected a Member of the Society. 



Mr. R. M'Lachlan exhibited specimens of Phylloxera vastatrix, Planch., 

 from the roots of vines belonging toMr.J.E.Lightfoot, Mayor of Accrington. 



Prof. Westwood remarked that he became acquainted with the Phylloxera 

 in Britain as long ago as 1862, and that on November 25th, 1867, he 

 described and figured this insect, at a meeting of the Ashmolean Society 

 in Oxford, under the name of Peritymbia vitisana, which name (had the 

 Proceedings of the Ashmolean Society been regularly published) would have 

 had priority over M. Planchon's PJiizajihis vastatrix. 



Miss E. A. Ormerod exhibited a bunch of Atlierix Ibis, Fabr., found on 

 a sprig of alder overhanging water at Hampton Court by Mr. J. Arkwright. 

 The swarm of flies measured about 6 in. long by 3 in. broad, and consisted 

 of many thousand specimens. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch called attention to the figure of a similar swarm 

 (' Compte-rendu,' Soc. Entom. Belg. 1874). 



M r. W. L. Distant exhibited specimens of four of the five known species 

 of American Fulgoridce, of which three were from Central America. 



Mr. G. C. Champion stated that in Central America he had kept forty or 

 fifty specimens alive for days, and had seen no trace of luminosity, neither 

 did they stridulate. He had not infrequently found larvae attached to and 

 feeding on the white cottony secretion so abundant about some of the smaller 

 Fulgoridm; he had fouud as many as three larvae attached to one imago. 



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