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8,000 feet above the level of the sea ; among which Chrysomela fastuosa, Peryphus 

 littoralis, Stenus ater, and others, were identical with the British species. 



Mr. White read the following extracts of a letter from J. C. Bowring, Esq., dated 

 Hong Kong, January 29, 1852 : — 



" I possess in all about fifty Hong Kong Brachely tra, chiefly very small species, 

 and the only peculiarly interesting form among them is an insect of which I have but 

 one specimen, which I captured under a stone on the peak of Mount Parker; the an- 

 tennas are pectinated so strongly as to be almost flabellate. I have not duplicates of 

 more than half-a-dozen species, although I collect everything I can lay my hands on, 

 and would take fifty specimens of each insect if I could get them, with the view of in- 

 creasing my general collection by exchanging. It seems strange that there should be 

 so few Brachely tra from China known in Europe. In Erichson (page 221), Conurus 

 pubescens seems to be the only one mentioned, and that is a well known European 

 species. 



" I have found many new Carabideous insects this last season, and have now about 

 eighty species, and fourteen Cicindelae ; the greater part of these are so rare that I have 

 no duplicates. Dr. Dubois, of the French frigate, ' Algerie,' lately found a fine Sea- 

 rites on the sands of the mainland, opposite Hong Kong ; I have searched the spot 

 well, but could not find another specimen. I discovered, however, a very pretty little 

 Notoxus, while turning over the drift weed on the shore. 



" I have never met with any more Paussi since my return in 1848 ; they must be 

 of rare occurrence indeed, as I keep a sharp look-out for them.'' 



The President informed the meeting that M. Grove, of Marseilles, was about to 

 make an entomological tour in Sicily, and wished to enter into communication with 

 entomologists of this country, with a view to the exchange or other disposal of his 

 Coleopterous captures. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders mentioned that M. Jose Apolinario Nieto, Orizava, Mexico, 

 a Mexican entomologist, wished to enter into correspondence with English entomo- 

 logists. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited larvae of Botys Urticalis, attached to the underside 

 of a piece of wood which had formed part of a fence, where they had spun their co- 

 coons and had hybernated, having not yet passed into the pupa state. 



Mr. Douglas, on the part of Mr. H. Cooke, exhibited a book of drawings of Indian 

 insects of all orders, belonging to Captain Wroughton, of the Indian Army. The 

 beauty and fidelity of these drawings excited great admiration. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited Nepticula aurella, taken at Darenth Wood on the 24th of 

 March, a very early appearance, and N. ignobilella, bred from a leaf of hazel, gathered 

 in the autumn. 



Mr. Douglas also exhibited larvae of Gelechia contigua, in the tops of young shoots 

 of Stellaria holostea, larva? of G. fraternella in shoots of Stellaria uliginosa, and a full- 

 grown larva of a Nepticula, mining in a leaf of bramble just gathered; many other 

 bramble-leaves he observed had been similarly mined, but tbe miners had escaped. 

 He mentioned that Mr. Stainton had recently found the terminal shoots of Cerastium 

 viscosum rolled up like those of the Stellariae, probably by the larvae of Gelechia, or 

 some closely allied moth. 



