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Micro- Lepidoptera in the Tropica. 



A communication from Mr. Wallace was read, stating that in Bor- 

 neo he found Micro-Lepidoptera come in great numbers to a lamp, on 

 dark and wet nights, and expressing a belief that he could obtain 

 thousands of specimens. At the May meeting Mr. Stainton adduced 

 evidence of the existence of mining Micros in the vicinity of Cal- 

 cutta. Mr. Saunders said, that when in India he also had observed 

 the mines of Micros in leaves. 



Nete7, or New British, Species. 



At the April meeting was read a description, by Mr. Wallace, of 

 Ornithoptera Brookiana, a magnificent new species, captured near the 

 Rejang River, on the North-west coast of Borneo. 



At the May meeting a new Noctua was described by Mr. Double- 

 day, mider the name of Agi'otis Ashworthii : it was discovered at 

 Llangollen, in North Wales, by Mr. Ash worth, in 1853, and has been 

 recorded on several occasions under the name of Spselotis vallesiaca, 

 to which insect it has little similarity, and which name must be ex- 

 punged from our lists. 



At the August meeting Mr. DouUeday sent for exhibition speci- 

 mens of Caradrina blanda and C. Alsines, two perfectly distinct 

 species of Noctuina, which had previously been mixed in all our col- 

 lections under the name of C. blanda. The name of Caradrina 

 Alsines occurs both in Stephens' ' Catalogue ' and ' Illustrations,' but 

 is omitted altogether in Henry Doubleday's 'Synonymic List;' and 

 the name was again introduced, but only as a variety of C. blanda, in 

 Stephens' ' Catalogue of the British Lepidoptera in the British 

 Museum : ' a species is therefore added to our list of British Lepi- 

 doptera. 



At the November meeting Mr. Stevens exhibited a new British 

 Tortrix, recently taken at Hayling Island, Hants, among the spurge 

 which grows on the coast near Havant : for this insect he proposes 

 the name of Mixodia Hawkerana. 



At the October meeting Mr. Stainton exhibited specimens of Litho- 

 colletis Bremiella, which he had bred from the mined leaves of Vicia 

 sepium, gathered at Bexley a few days previously. 



At the October meeting Mr. Charles Wood, of Dulwich, sent for 

 exhibition a specimen of Xylocopa violacea, captured in a green- 

 house on Dulwich Common : it had entered the green-house attracted 



