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Vet. Acad. Fork. 142, 42 (1850). Kraaiz, Nalurgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 281, 88 

 (1856), nee Steph. Aleocbara excavala? GyU. Ins. Suec. iv. 490, 30—31 (1827). 

 Captured by himself, near Hampsleud, Middlesex, April, 1857. 



6. Xantholinus atraLus, Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. i. 246, 7 (1839). Kmatz, 

 Nalurgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 636, 5 (1857). Discovered by himself ia a nest of 

 Formica rufa, near Highgate, Middlesex, October, 1856. 



7. Tliinobius brevipennis, v, Kiesenw. Stettin. Ent. Zeit. xi. 221 (1850), Kraatz, 

 Nalurgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 885, 5 (1858). Tukea by himself in Holme Fen, 

 HuntingdoQshire, May, 1859, 



Mr. Ruspiai exhibited a coloured figure of a variety of Lyceena Phlaeas. The 

 specimen was captured ou Norwood Common in the autumn of 1858, and was princi- 

 pally remarkable for the absence of the usual coppery border of the posterior wings, 

 and for the presence on each of the same pair of wings of three straight rather broad 

 sharply-defined radiating bars, of a bright copper colour. 



Mr. Lubbock requested Members of the Society to supply him with any speci- 

 mens of Thysanura which it might be in their power to furnish. 



Dr.- Wallace, after recalling to the recollection of the Meeting a letter addressed 



10 him by Captain Russell, of Monk's Eleigh, Suffolk, and which was read at the 

 Meeting of the Society held on the 2nd of December, 1861, now introduced Captain 

 Russell to the Society, and exhibited on his behalf specimens of Callimorpha Hera, 

 Aigynnis Lathonia, Eulepia grammica, a suffused dark variety of Vanessa Urticae, 

 Anesychia Ecbiella, and an insect which was apparently Cabera rotundaria. 



Captain Russell said that of Callimorpha Hera (which in Doubleday's ' List of 

 Lepidoplera' was included amongst the " Reputed British Species") he captured five 

 specimens on the 27th of July, 1859. The following is an extract from his diary for 

 that day: — " Drove from Ehuabon to Wrexham ; beautiful day, but very hot; about 

 two miles from Wrexham some beauiiful butterflies, one sort with brilliant scarlet 

 wings; country very hilly, not well cultivated." Captain Russell was at that time 

 unable to distinguish between Rhopalocera and Helerocera; and the "butterflies with 

 brilliant scarlet wings" turned out to be C. Hera. The place where they were cap- 

 tured was a stony hill-side, quite uncultivated ; the time about 5 p. M. The flight of 

 the insects was sluggish, and from full flight their subsidence to perfect rest was ap- 

 parently instantaneous. The wings lay flat upon the surface on which the insect 

 rested, and none of the scarlet of the under wings was then visible. Each of the five 

 specimens captured was taken off a bramble-leaf. The spot was revisited about 



11 A. M. on the following day, but not a specimen was to be seen. 



A. Lathonia was taken by Captain Russell on two occasions in August, 1859; on 

 the first occasion five specimens; ou the second two, in a meadow-field on the S.W. 

 side of a wood belonging to Mr. T. P. Hitchcock, at Lavenham, Suffolk. The insects 

 were shown, shortly after their capture, and whilst yet limp and not set out, to the 

 late Professor Henslow, whose living of Hitchara was an adjoining parish to Monk's 

 Eleigh : the Professor told him they were specimens of A. Lathonia, and added that he 

 did not regard them as indigenous, but thought they must have been blown over from 

 the Continent. 



The specimen of Eulepia grammica was taken at the same place as C. Hera, on 

 the occasion of Captain Russell's second visit to that spot, on the 28th of July, 1859. 

 It was disturbed by a lighted fusee falling among some long grass; it flew with 



