"In seeking nocturnal feeders, generally but few make their appearance until 

 about an hour after sunset; on the low herbage and banks the lamp and bent position 

 must be the order of search ; on spare and leafless brushwood the light will detect the 

 insect, either feeding or at rest ; but amongst brushwood an inverted umbrella, when 

 it can be used, will save much time, and a quick tap with a^tick will cause the 

 larvae to drop ofif into it. The lamp should be strapped round the waist. Many 

 small larvae, after feeding, hang suspended by a silken thread ; all these the umbrella 

 will receive. 



" During the night or day the quick eye must be ever ready to see the nibbled leaf, 

 the exuvial deposit, the web, or any other sign of insect presence. .It was by examining 

 the entrance of a wood, by the light of ray lamp, that I discovered a piece of exuviae ; 

 on further search I came upon a number of larvae of Vanessa Cardui, before which 

 time I had never seen in this neighbourhood the caterpillars, and the perfect insect 

 but once. I found them feeding on the cudweed {Gnaphalium sylvaiica): I have not 

 seen this given before as its food-plant. 



" In collecting by day, a large sheet spread under the trees at the proper season of 

 the year, and the trees beaten by a long pole, will generally send down many 

 larvae. 



" Thus the sheet and umbrella by day, the umbrella and lamp by night, a quick 

 eye and a strong frame, will be sure to meet with success. 



" There are other larvae, some of which mine in the leaves, others in roots or stems 

 of plants, or enclose themselves by drawing the ends of a single leaf or many leaves 

 together. There are also many larvae that rarely appear above ground: these are to 

 be obtained only by digging them out; therefore, whenever you have an opportunity, 

 ask the men turning up the soil to save all the 'bugs' and 'slugs' they find; for by 

 these names only are they known by our unenlightened clodhoppers. 



" Mrs. Charles Cox has now completed 170 coloured drawings of larvae, the names 

 of which are correctly authenticated, with about 120 not yet named. We are most 

 anxious to continue our work, and we shall be indebted to our entomological friends 

 if they will contribute to our wants. I need not say how pleased we shall be at all 

 times to exhibit the progress of our work, and to forward lists to any Members of our 

 Society who may desire to give a helping hand." 



Prof. Westwood exhibited a selection, containing several novelties, from a collection 

 of Coleoptera sent to this country from the River Shire by the Rev. Henry Rowley 

 (attached to the Oxford and Cambridge Mission to the Zambesi) ; and remarked upon 

 the identity of many of the insects from Zambesi with those from Mozambique. One 

 of the new species exhibited, belonging to the Cetoniidae, was very rema,rkable for the 

 variation in colour in the different individuals. 



Prof. Westwood also exhibited a specimen of Hylotorus bucephalus, Schonh., one 

 of the Paussidae ; and read the following descriptions of three new species of that 

 family: — 



1. Cerapterus Kirbii, Weslw. 



Subangustus, prothorace capite vix latiori, subquadrato, angulis anticis rotundatis, 

 elytris pone medium latioribus; glaberrimus et IsBvissimus ; capite inter oculos 

 bi-impresso ; antennarum clava 9-articulata, subangusta, lateribus parallelis, 

 articulo basali clavae parvo ; prothoracis lateribus acute marginatis ; rufo-piceus, 

 prothorace rufescenti, lateribus elytrorum cum macula ovata prope angulos 



