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Fen, Cambridgeshire : also Phoxopteryx Upupana, Ephippiphora obscurana, and a 

 new Spilonota allied to dealbana; all from Darentb Wood: and a very fine Stauropus 

 Fagi, captured at Black Park, Bucks. 



Mr. Augustus Sheppard exhibited a fine series of Depressaria assirailella, reared 

 from larvae found on broom. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited Bucculatrix Cidarella from alders, Gracilaria Ono- 

 nidis from Genista tinctoria, iEchmia oculatella from Eupatorium Cannabinum, and 

 M. metallicella ; all captured near Pembury, Kent. 



Mr. Smith exhibited the specimen of Gastropacha Ilicifolia caught by Mr. Atkin- 

 son, mentioned at the June meeting; also living specimens of Chrysomela cerealis, 

 which had fed for the last fortnight on leaves of wild thyme, on which plant Mr. Fox- 

 croft found them in the Pass of Llanberris, N. Wales. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited, in illustration of the natural history of the following Tor- 

 trices : — 



A pupa-skin of Ditula angustiorana, projecting from the interior of one of the 

 shoots of yew exhibited at the February meeting. 



A pupa-skin of Cochylis Francillana, and a section of a dry stem of an umbellife- 

 rous plant, in which the larva had fed. 



A pupa-skin of Paedisca bilunana, with a catkin of birch inside which the larva fed. 



Dry capsules of Saxifraga granulata, gathered at Southend, in which he had found 

 pupae which produced Phaleroptera Ictericana. 



It was somewhat singular that all the six or eight specimens of this insect that had 

 appeared were males ; the females (longana, Haw.) he had reared from larvae found 

 on Aster Tripolium growing near Gravesend, which quitted the plant prior to changing 

 to pupae ; so that granting the larvae of the pupae found in the capsules of Saxifraga 

 granulata had fed therein, it would appear, judging from the instances in question, 

 either that the sexes fed on different plants, or that these two insects had been erro- 

 neously united as one species. It was not safe to speak positively without further ex- 

 perience, but it would at least seem that if there were but one species, the larvae were 

 not only polyphagous, but had different habits on different plants ; in one case chang- 

 ing to pupae in the seed-capsule of the plant, in the other quitting the plant and re- 

 tiring to the earth. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited Chrosis Audouinana from Black Park, Psyche reticella 

 from Sheerness, and Eupithecia tenuiata, bred from sallows. 



The President directed the attention of the meeting to the descriptions of the win- 

 ter insects of New York by Dr. Asa Fitch ; specimens of the greater part of which 

 were intended to be presented to this Society. 



Mr. S. Stevens stated that Mr. Walton had had the kindness to determine the 

 names of the two new British Curculionidae he had recently captured. That from 

 Gravesend he had no doubt was the Mecinus collaris of Germar, for it answered ex- 

 actly to Germar's description ; the other from Fenny Stratford is Acalyptus rufipennis 

 of Schonherr. Of this, Mr. Walton in a note, observes : — " The genus Acalyptus, 

 Schonherr states, is not very dissimilar to Sibynia, and is partly like Tychius, but dif- 

 fers in the construction of the funiculus of the antennae and in the form of the rostrum. 

 The location of the genus is next to Sibynia. Schonherr records only two species in 

 the genus, viz., A. Carpini, Herbst., and A. rufipennis ; but I am of opinion that Car- 

 pini is identical with rufipennis, which is founded upon Gyllenhai's description. If 

 I am right, the synonymy will stand thus : — 



