Insects. — Annelides. 3181 



of a dipterous insect in a cell at the bottom of the seed-head : the cell-walls were so 

 strong, that it required a sharp knife to get at the interior. 



Mr. Norman presented to the Society a specimen of Vanessa Antiopa, taken in 

 Lordship Lane, Stoke Newington, in 1847. 



The President having informed the Members present that Mr. Bates, the unwea- 

 ried and enterprising naturalist, whose exertions in Para and the Amazons have tended 

 to render the study of Entomology more interesting, was about to return to his native 

 country, after an absence of three years devoted to that beautiful branch of Natural 

 History; it was universally agreed, on a motion from Mr. Harding, — That .the thanks 

 and congratulations of this Society should be tendered to him on his arrival : and that 

 it would suggest to naturalists generally, but more particularly the entomologists of 

 this country, that a meeting or soiree should be held, to which Mr. Bates should be 

 invited, personally to congratulate him on his safe and successful tour. — J. F. Nor- 

 man, Secretary. 



Capture of Notodonia trepida, Cleora cinctaria, fyc. — On Friday, May 30, I went 

 to Delamere Forest, in company with Mr. N. Cooke, of Warrington, and there had the 

 good fortune to capture a very fine pair of Notodonta trepida, sitting on an oak. I 

 have also in my possession thirteen specimens of Cleora cinctaria, taken on alders by 

 my father, in Argyllshire, about the 15th of May ; and two specimens of Calocampa 

 vetusta, taken on sallows in the same locality : as well as Tamiocampa gracilis, which 

 was there in great numbers. — E. C. Buxton, jun. ; Kenyon House, Manchester, June 

 3,1851. 



Occurrence of Eucera longicornis at Peckham. — A little greenhouse in which flow- 

 ers have been as abundant throughout the spring as they were scarce out of doors, 

 seems a sort of bee-trap: the bees enter through the open windows, but cannot find the 

 same mode of exit, and crawling to the glass, die in considerable numbers. Among 

 them Eucera longicornis is an occasional victim ; but Anthophora retusa and Apis 

 mellifica are the most abundant. — Edward Newman. 



Earth-worms destroyed by Grubs. — Two or three of your correspondents have re- 

 cently communicated instances of the earth-worm being attacked and killed by grubs 

 and other larvae. The facts they have mentioned are very interesting, and to me quite 

 new. I find, however, in Kirby and Spence's delightful work, mention made of a very 

 similar circumstance ; and as you may perhaps have other readers as ignorant of En- 

 tomology as myself, allow me to transcribe the passage for your pages. It occurs in 

 the ninth letter or chapter of the first volume, and is as follows-.— "The common earth- 

 worm is attacked and devoured by a centipede (Scolopendra electrica) ; Mr. Sheppard 

 saw one attack a worm ten times its own size, round which it twisted itself like a ser- 

 pent, and which it finally mastered and devoured." — W. F. W. Bird ; 5, King's Road, 

 Bedford Row, June 13, 1851. 



