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" In August last Mr. Atkinson (well known as the captor of Gastropacha Ilici folia) 

 forwarded me some mines and larvae of Phylluenistis saligna and P. surTusella, and at 

 the same time informed me he was about to start for Calcutta. T regretted to lose a 

 useful correspondent in this country ; but it directly struck me that here was an op- 

 portunity of obtaining information of East Indian Micro-Lepidoptera, which might 

 prove of great importance to us, and I begged Mr. Atkinson to pay particular attention 

 to any indications he might fall in with of the existence of the smaller genera iu 

 India. 



" On the 6th of April I had the pleasure of receiving a letter from Mr. Atkinson, 

 with the agreeable information that he had already detected the mines of three 

 different species of Lithocolletis, of one of which he had reared the perfect insect, and 

 of this species he has forwarded me some mines in the upper side of the leaves of 

 Bauhinia racemosa, which I now exhibit ; for this species, which, in the perfect state, 

 has some affinity with our L. trifasciella, Mr. Atkinson proposes the name of Litho- 

 colletis Bauhiniae. 



" I think this important discovery will be useful in urging upon those who may 

 hereafter be likely to visit our colonies the necessity of completing their education in 

 this branch of entomological science before they leave home, as I am satisfied that a 

 skilled Micro-Lepidopterist in unexplored regions would, with the greatest facility, 

 obtain novelties without end, and would also be able to observe the habits and trans- 

 formations of the greater part of his discoveries, so that he would at once add to our 

 knowledge as well as to our collections." 



The President doubted if Micro-Lepidoptera would be found so plentiful in tropical 

 countries as Mr. Stainton anticipated ; for, even in the South of Europe, through which, 

 in company with Mr. Walker, he made a tour some years ago, although they collected 

 diligently, and sought especially for Micro-Lepidoptera in places similar to those in 

 which they were plentiful in England, yet, out of more than six thousand specimens of 

 insects they brought home, the number of small moths was very few. If Micro's were 

 abundant in the tropics we should surely have had more of them sent to us. 



Mr. Saunders said that when he was in India he gave very little attention to the 

 small Lepidoptera; but he saw the mines of their larvae in leaves, and he remembered 

 that many small moths used to come to the lights at night. 



Small Coleoptera in the Tropics. 



Mr. Waterhouse said it used to be thought that tropical countries produced but 

 few Micro-Coleoptera; but this was an error, for Mr. Darwin had brought from South 

 America great quantities of minute beetles, collected chiefly just after the rainy 

 season. 



Mr. Westwood said Heifer had collected in India thirty species of Anthicus, besides 

 many other small beetles, now in the collection at Prague. 



Mr. Baly said Mr. Fry had in his possession a drawer-full of minute Staphylinidae 

 from Brazil. 



1 On the Entomostraca of South America.' 



Under this title Mr. Lubbock read a descriptive paper, accompanied by drawings 

 of the species. 



