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Mr. Foxcroft sent from Perthshire, for exhibition, the following Lepidoptera, re- 

 cently taken there by him : — Phibalapteryx hipidata, Depressaria ciniflonella, Lepto- 

 gramraa Scolana, and Cheimatobia autumnaria. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a specimen of Crarabus Cassentiniellus, taken by Mr. J. 

 Hemmings on the downs near Brighton, remarking that it was not only a species new 

 to Britain, but is only known to have been captured in Italy by Professor Zeller. He 

 also exhibited a new Nepticula, bred by Mr. Weaver, in Scotland, from leaves of 

 Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea, for which he proposed the name N. Weaveri; and a specimen 

 of the scarce beetle Dictyopterus minutus, found by himself, on the 17th of Octobej, 

 on the palings of Addington Park. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited leaves of various plants, each kind containing larv£e of 

 different species of Nepticula; also leaves of hawthorn, containing larvce of the beetle 

 Ilamphus pulicarius. 



Motion communicated to Seeds hy Insects. 



Mr. Westwood said that Sir William Hooker had sent him some seeds received 

 from the West Coast of America, which had excited some curiosity by jumping about : 

 this motion was caused by an insect-larva in each of the seeds, and after a further 

 examination he hoped to communicate some more particulars, and to obtain the 

 name of the plant producing the seeds. Among them he had found an Ichneumon, 

 which was probably a parasite on the enclosed larvae. 



Mr. Janson doubted if larvae, perfectly enclosed as these were said to be, could 

 possibly give "jumping'' motion to the seeds; the President said that Reaumur, as 

 cited by Kirby and Spence, had recorded an instance of a jumping chrysalis, and 

 Mr. Curtis said he had verified Reaumur's statement, the insect being one of the 

 IchueumonidjB. 



Economy of Grapholiiha corol/ana. 

 Mr. Douglas read the following translation of part of an article by Professor 

 Zeller, in the ' Zeitschrift fiir Entomologie des Vereins fiir Schlesische Insekten- 

 Kunde zu Breslau/ No. 23, 1852 (published in 1854), observing that the species was 

 not unlikely to occur in England. 



" Grapiiolitha cobollana. Hub. fig, 282. 



" Tortrix corollana, Frolich, Tort. Wurlembergia), p. 91, 218. 

 " Graphol. corollana, Duponch. Cat. p. 306." 



After some critical remarks on the species, he says, — 



" According to Frolich this Tortiix flies on flowers in May and June, but my ex- 

 perience is entirely contrary to this statement. I might assert that this Tortrix does 

 not frequent flowers at all : it generally flies but little, and therefore is so seldom met 

 with. Near Berlin I once caught several specimens on the 9lh of May, towards even- 

 ing, on the trunks of moderately thick aspens, and two of them were paired. After- 

 wards, in Frankfort on the Oder, on the 17th of March, from branches of aspen, which 

 also contained larva; of Saperda populnea, and which I had placed in water in a win- 

 dow exposed to the sun, I reared a fine female, which sat upon the young aspen-leaves. 

 I then thought the larva had lived in the buds, and sought therein accordingly, but 

 found only one larva, which I carefully described, but from which I only bred Pcuthiua 



