7152 Insects. 



Mr. Janson also exhibited a specimen of Homalota subterranea, Mulsant., a spe- 

 cies only hitherto detected in France, which he had found at Micklehara, Surrey, ou 

 the 23rd ult., under a stone, in a nest of Formica fiava. He also exhibited Ischno- 

 glossa rufopicea and Conosoma bimaculatum, found beneath bark of oaks at Colney 

 Hatch. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited a fine specimen of Chrosis Audouiana, lately caught at 

 Darenlh Wood,jKeni. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited the following Coleoptera, found in the sap exuding from 

 the perforations formed in oaks by the larva of Cossus ligniperda, viz., Cryptar- 

 clus imperialis, Epureea 10-guttata, Tachinus bipustulatus, Homalota cinnamomea, 

 H. hospita, and Omalium planum. He also exhibited Conopalpus testaceus, bred 

 from rotten oak-branches from Kichmond Park. 



The Rev. H. Clark sent for distribution amongst the Members specimens of Lac- 

 cophilus variegatus, Germ., taken by him at Pevensey in June last. 



Mr. Lewis exhil»ited specimens of Thiasophila inqnilina, found at Charlton in 

 nests of Formica fuliginosa. Mr. Lewis remarked that he had, at the Meeting of the 

 Society held on the 2iid of April last, exhibited a specimen of Telephorus atra, L., 

 and staled it to be a species unrecorded as British ; but he had since found that it 

 bad been long before included by Mr. Murray in his 'Catalogue of Scottish Co- 

 leoptera.' 



The Secretary read a letter from R. J. L. Guppy, Esq., Port of Spain, Trinidad, 

 on the habits of an insect allied to, if not identical with, Ranatra linearis of Europe, 

 which he had found in streams in thai island. — E. S. 



Occurrence of Acheronlia Alropos near Banff". — A specimen of this insect was 

 taken at the end of J une, by some school-children. The species is somewhat rare 

 in this quarter. Is not June an early date for it to be abroad ? — Thomas Edward ; 

 Banjf, Juhj 2, 1860. 



Description of the Larva of Eupithecia pumilata. ■ — Short and stumpy, tapering 

 slightly towards the head. Ground-colour pale yellowish olive, reddish olive or rusty 

 red. Central dorsal line dusky olive, almost black. Down the centre of the back a 

 chain of dusky arrow-shaped spots, more or less distinct, and becoming merged in the 

 dorsal line on the anterior and posterior segments. On each side a broad ribbon-like 

 stripe, yellowish in the middle, dusky at the edges. The dorsal spots bordered inter- 

 ruptedly with yellow. Spiracular line yellowish. The larvae from which the foregoing 

 description was taken were reared from eggs sent me by Mr. Hellins, at the end of 

 May, and fed on flowers of Anthriscus sylvestris. They were full-fed at the end of 

 June, and the first perfect insect appeared July 16. Mr. H. tells me he has reared 

 the larva on flowers of Clematis. The pupa, which is enclosed in a slight earthen 

 cocoon, has the thorax and wing-cases pale yellow ; abdomen short, yellow ; tip red, 

 divisions slightly so. The perfect insect appears in April and May, and again in 

 July and August. — H. Harpur Crewe ; Horndean, July 18, 1860. 



