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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 sent 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 larvae of 

 Cossus ligniperda, which he had found in a portion of a small willow. He 

 had taken fifty -six larvae 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 noise, but whether the sound was caused by the males or 

 females he could not say. Mr. Dunning considered that further evidence 

 was wanting to prove stridulation in the females. 



Papers read. 



A paper was read by Mr. W. F. Kirby, entitled " Notes on the new or 

 rare Spliingidce in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society; with remarks 

 on Mr. Butler's recent Revision of the Family." 



Papers were also communicated, by Mr. J. S. Baly, on " Descriptions 

 of new Genera and Species of Cryptocep]ialid<s" and by the Rev. H. S. 

 Gorham — " Descriptions of new Species of Cleridce." 



