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considered to be varieties of one inconstant species: he stated tlint Mr. Hellins had 

 noticed the larva of E. succenturiata, which feeds on iniigwort, preferring the seeds, to 

 be infested by an hymenopterous parasite, the larva of which, when full fed, eats its 

 way out of the caterpillar and constructs a cocoon on its back; he had on one occasion 

 noticed a larva of the moth devouring one of the cocoons on the back of its neighbour', 

 evidently mistaking it for a seed of the plant, which it exactly resembles in form. 



Dr, Knaggs also exhibited the living larvae of Clostera anachoreta, reared from 

 the eggs deposited by a female bred during the present summer. 



Mr. Waring exhibited some beautiful specimens of Noctua sobrina, N. neglecta 

 and Ypsolophus juuiperellus, taken in Scotland by Mr. Bouchard, during the past 

 summer. 



Mr. Waterhouse stated that he was anxious to correct three errors in his Catalogue 

 of British Coleoptera, which had lately come to his knowledge ; they consist of three 

 species introduced into the list upon the authority of other entomologists, viz.: — 

 Homalota subteiranea, Mulsant ; Haploglossa rufipennis, Kraatz, introduced on the 

 authority of Mr. Janson; and Ceuthorhynchus uliginosus, Walton, taken from 

 Mr. Walton's list of British Curculionidae. 



The Homalota subterranea of Mr. Janson I find, from the inspection of a specimen 

 received from Mr. Janson by the British Museum, is the same as Homalota scapularis 

 of my Catalogue. 



The Haploglossa rufipennis of Mr. Janson is = Haploglossa pulla of my Cata- 

 logue, and is clearly not identical with H. rufipennis of Kraatz, of which there are 

 specimens received from Dr. Kraatz in the Museum collection. The insect sometimes 

 has the elytra pitchy black and sometimes rufescent, and has been recently taken in 

 considerable numbers by Mr. Brewer, Mr. Rye and Mr. Lewis, always in the vicinity 

 of the nests of the sand martin. 



Ceuthorhynchus uliginosus of Walton is represented by a specimen presented by 

 Mr. Walton to the British Museum, which I have carefully examined, and which 

 proves to be Caeliodes didymus. It has a distinct rostral groove continued to the 

 middle coxae. A second specimen, named by Mr. Walton, is in Mr. Dale's collection, 

 and has been kindly forwarded to me by its owner for examination ; this is clearly a 

 rubbed specimen of Ceuthorhynchus litura, as Mr. F. Smith had determined before 

 I saw it. 



Mr. Stainton read " A few Words on the Synonymy of Laverna Langiella." 

 Professor Westwood read descriptions of some new exotic Lucanidae. 



