1870.] 21 
The importance of this work rendered it necessary to devote more space to its 
notice than is our custom; but the fact that 800 copies have been sold already, 
and that a new edition is in preparation, must outweigh anything we have said, or 
could say, in its favour. 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE NorFoLK AND NorwicuH Naturauists’ Society, 1869-70. 
—Norwich, 1870. 
We have before us the first part of Transactions published by this Society, 
and a very creditable beginning it is, extending to over 60 pages. Of course all 
branches of Natural History are represented, as they should be, and Entomology 
is very fairly advocated by (1), a discursive paper by Mr. Crowfoot, conveying 
many useful hints on the way the study should be conducted; (2), a notice by 
Mr. Barrett “on the larva of an unknown Lepidopterous insect found in the barley 
crops of 1868,” remarking on the damage done to the grain by some small, and as 
yet undetermined larva; and (3), some pertinent remarks by Mr. Southwell on the 
unusual abundance of Lady-birds last season, an extract from which will be found 
in another part of our present number. 
ENtomonoeicaL Society oF Lonpon, 2nd May, 1870. A. R. Watnace, Esq., 
F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Higgins exhibited (for Mr. Hewitson) a collection of butterflies from 
Ecuador, collected by Manuel Villagomes, who was in the service of Mr. Buckley 
during his late expedition; Villagomes collected in a valley considerably to the 
south of the scene of labours of his former master. The collection consisted of 
2000 specimens, and Mr. Hewitson described 22 new species. 
Mr. Ff. Smith exhibited a Collection of Japanese Hymenoptera, sent by Mr. 
Lewis, of Nagasaki. Of the Aculeata there were 44 species, and of these about 20 
appeared to be new. Taking it altogether, the collection was European in its 
facies and constitution. 
Mr. McLachlan read “ Descriptions of a new genus and four new species of 
Calopterygide, and a new genus and species of Gomphidw.” Among the former 
was a near ally of the brilliant Chalcopteryx rutilans (C. scintillans, McL., from San 
Paulo). 
Mr. Crotch sent for exhibition Trachyphleus laticollis, a OCurculionid new to 
Britain, of which five specimens had been taken at Weston-super-Mare. 
Mr. Miiller exhibited some of the original drawings by Labram of the insects 
figured in Imhoff’s “ Insekten der Schweiz,” &e. 
Mr. Holdsworth, of Shanghai, sent a communication respecting the Bomby- 
cide, &c., named by Mr. Walker, Zone punctata, Lasiocampa remota, and Lebeda 
hebes. He reported that he had bred all three from larve which were undistinguish- 
able; these latter fed upon pine and oak. The insects are very closely allied to the 
Huropean Bombyx pini. 
Mr. Bates read a paper *‘ On a new genus and some new species of Copride,” 
and exhibited specimens in illustration thereof. 
Mr. Pascoe read “‘ Descriptions of some new genera and species of Australian 
Curculionide.” 
