236 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



[Anobium paiiiceum is figured, both in its larval and 

 perfect state, at p. 162 of the ' Entomologist' for September, 

 and some details given of its injurious effects on tea. The 

 grubs were found, immediately the chests were opened, upon 

 arrival: the package consists of a wooden exterior, inside of 

 which is a leaden case, in which the tea is put and soldered 

 down, and on the top of the tea, where the lead is soldered, 

 there is a covering of paper: when the lead is cut open the 

 grubs are found adhering to the paper and in the tea. 

 Hundreds of chests have been found, during the past year, to 

 be infested with this grub. — Editor of ' Entomologist. ""^^ 



Chlorops lineata. — Mr. Bond exhibited specimens of a 

 small Dipterous insect, Chlorops lineata, and read a letter 

 respecting it from Mr. J. Brown, of Cambridge. In the 

 month of September a room, in the Provost's Lodge at King's 

 College, was found 'Miterally swarming with them; the 

 ceiling and windows were covered ; there must have been 

 millions of them :" they were said to occur regularly every 

 season, and to have been noticed by the late Provost, 

 Dr. Thackeray (who died in 1850). Mr. F. Smith mentioned 

 that he had received half a dozen communications during the 

 autumn respecting swarms of this insect. Mr. Stainton 

 enquired how and why it was that an insect which feeds 

 on grasses or on vegetable substances is found in houses } 

 Prof. Westwood thought the long hot summer and dry 

 autumn might account for the unusual prevalence of this 

 species during the present year; as to its getting into houses, 

 he thought it was wilh a view to hybernation. Mr. Jenner 

 Weir thought it was only for teniporary shelter, on the first 

 approach of cold weather. 



Cf/nips Remnn. — Mr. Albert Miiller exhibited some reni- 

 form spangles on the under side of oak-leaves, found near 

 Shirley, on the 16th October last, and produced by Cynips 

 Renum (Hartig, M.S.) : also pea-galls (about seventy-five in 

 number) of Cynips agema, on the under side of the leaves of 

 an oak seedling of two or three years' growth. Mr. Miiller 

 observed upon the fact of a Cynips attacking so young and 

 healthy a ])lant. 



lUeniiocampa Cerasi. — The Secretary read letters from the 

 Rev. W. II. Wayne, of Much VVenlock, Shropshire, respect- 

 ing the injury caused in July last to his plum, cherry, and 



