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instructions how to rear it : we nailed a piece of peat on the 

 back of the breeding-box, into which it made up on the 6th 

 of August, 1870, from which it emerged on the 18th of this 

 month, a most beautiful and perfect insect. — John Landon ; 

 31, Alston Street, Lady Grove, Birmingham, June 20, 1871. 

 Macroglossa Bomhyliformis and Cucullia Umhratica at 

 Inverurie. — There was a specimen of Macroglossa Bomhyli- 

 formis and one of Cucullia umbratica, found here last week. 

 So far as I am aware they are both new to the Aberdeenshire 

 list. — James Garrow; 40, Market Place, Inverurie, N,B., 

 June 19, 1871. 



Extracts from> the Proceedings of the Entomological Society, 



June 5, IS7 1. 



Shower of Insects at Bath. — The Secretary read the 

 following letter (dated May 9th), received from the*Rev. L. 

 Jenyns, of Bath, concerning the newspaper reports, alluded 

 to at the last Meeting, as to the supposed showers of insects, 

 or other organisms, occurring at that city : — " Seeing in the 

 'Athenaeum' that mentio.i was made at the last Meeting of 

 the Entomological Society of a 'so-called storm of insects' 

 that had fallen lately at Bath on two occasions, with 

 reference to the inaccuracy of newspaper reports in scientific 

 matters, I venture to send, for the information of the Members 

 of the Society, a statement of so much as I know respecting 

 the phenomenon in question. I did not witness it, indeed I 

 was not in Bath at the time ; but a person who keeps a small 

 inn near the Midland Railway-station, where the phenomenon 

 was observed, on ray requesting to see them, showed me 

 some of the organisms still alive, which he had kept in a 

 tumbler of water since the time of their falling. This was 

 several days after the occurrence of the storm, and, having 

 already parted with a great many specimens, he would not 

 allow me to take one away with me for closer examination at 

 home. But I saw enough to satisfy me as to their nature, if 

 not to identify the exact species. They were not, as may be 

 supposed, true insects, nor were they Entomostraca, as Prof. 

 Westwood thought they might perhaps have been, but forms of 

 Infusoria, more especially of the genus Vibrio, large numbers 



