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brown spots in a straight line may be seen in distinctly marked specimens ; the first 

 is near the base, the second in the middle of the wing, and the third before the hinder 

 margin. Under the first and second, but more towards the second, near the inner 

 margin, lies a similar spot, and under the third another, somewhat directed towards 

 the base, and yet it also appears united to the third spot. One or other or all the spots 

 except the third are often wanting. The larva feeds in tubularly united leaves of se- 

 veral low plants. I found it on Fragaria vesca, F. collina, several species of Trifolium 

 and Scabiosa arvensis, but hitherto only on an open place in a wood. It changed to 

 a pupa in its abode : the imago appears in July. 



" Depressaria Libanotidella, Martini. Size and form of D. Heracleana, which it 

 otherwise much resembles ; the size is variable, as specimens occur as small as D. 

 Pimpinellae. The larva lives, in July and August, in the umbels of Athamanta Liba- 

 notis {Libanotis montana), on the mountains and in woods near Jena. When young, 

 and before the flowers expand, it lives between tubularly united leaves ; it afterwards 

 draws the flowers together. The perfect insect appears from the end of August to the 

 end of September. 



" Ypsolophus Schmidtiellus, V. Heyden. Size of Grapholitha Hypericana. The 

 long, narrow, anterior wings are orange-coloured, darker towards the hinder margin, 

 with a small dark spot in the middle of the wing, and a larger dark spot near the in- 

 ner margin towards the base. Cilia of the same colour as the wings, preceded by a 

 fine row of dark spots. The larva we find in May on Origanum vulgare, where it be- 

 trays itself by the curved leaves. On any alarm it hastily retreats to the earth. The 

 imago appears at the end of June." 



Ypsolophus Schmidtiellus (first described in the ' Isis,' 1848) can hardly be the 

 Durdhamellus, yet Origanum would be a likely food for that species. 



With regard to Depressaria Libanotidella, its food-plant is British, but rare, oc- 

 curring on the chalk hills of Cambridgeshire. I find it in Sowerby as Seseli Libanotis, 

 and in Babington as Libanotis montana. 



Part 2 Vol. ii. n. s. of the ' Transactions ' was on the table. 



The meetings of the Society will in future be held at 12, Bedford Row ; to which 

 the Society will immediately remove. — J. W. D. 



Proceedings of the Society of British Entomologists. 



September 7, 1852. — Mr. Harding, President, in the chair. 



Mr. Dalman exhibited two varieties of Callimorpha dominula, one of which had 

 the under wings of a bright orange-brown, the other had the upper wings nearly white, 

 the usual green being nearly obliterated. 



Mr. Harding exhibited a fine box of insects from the coast of Kent, among them 

 were Setina irrorella, Plusia orichalcea, Heliothis marginata, H. Dipsacea, Eremobia 

 ochroleuca, Carpocapsa Leplastriana, Cynaeda dentalis, Sericoris politana, Adela mini- 

 mellus, Crambus lotellus, and many others, a pair of Gortyna Petasitis from Liverpool, 

 and a specimen of Acherontia Atropos from Darenth. 



The President inquired if any of the members could inform him whether Macro- 

 glossa Stellatarura was ever infested with the Ichneumon ? He remarked that at dif- 

 ferent times he had taken a great number of the larvae of that insect full fed, the most 

 likely time for it to have the parasite, but in no one instance had he found them miss 



