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" Tab. 8. Ephemera rupestris, from London. (Very bad, but doubtless a small 



Phryganea). 

 " Tab. 9. Alucita pallida, from England. (A very small Thrips). 

 "Tab. 10. Alucita fulva, from England. (A Phlceothrips)." 



Mr. Westwood said the figures were very bad, and that it was scarcely possible to 

 recognise the species ; and with regard to the insects which " the studious gentleman" 

 sneezed, he thought it probable that he had previously drawn them into his nose by 

 smelling flowers. 



Mr. S. Stevens mentioned that one evening, at Micklehara, he saw many Noctuae 

 attracted to one particular thistle, and upon investigation he found it covered with 

 Aphides and their sweet secretion. 



Mr. Wing said he had seen both Noctuae and Geometrae attracted by the secretion 

 of Aphides on gooseberry-bushes ; and Mr. Westwood alluded to the well-known at- 

 traction to bees of the honey-dew deposited by Aphides on the leaves of trees. 



The President announced that a second field-day excursion of the Members of the 

 Society and their friends, would be made to West Wickham Wood, on the 9th of July. 

 —J. W. D. 



The Entomological Society has had two field-meetings, — one on the 25th of June, 

 at Mickleham, the other on the 9th of July, at West Wickham. On both occasions 

 the weather proved wet, and only about half the usual number of Members attended ; 

 nevertheless some good captures were made, aud the meetings passed off very plea- 

 santly. One of our rarest Lepidoptera, — Pachetra leucophaea ? — was taken by Mr. 

 Janson, at Mickleham, on the former date. — J. W. D. 



Proceedings of the Dublin Natural History Society. 



June 10, 1853. — J. R. Kinahan, Esq., in the chair. 



After the preliminary business, Mr. Andrews said that he had a variety of eggs, 

 obtained on the west coast, to present to the Society, which, as soon as they were pre- 

 pared, would be placed in the Museum. 



Mr. Kinahan begged to present, from James Haughton, Esq., of Moorfield, Roe- 

 buck, the egg of the chiff-chaff, (Sylvia rufa) ; and from Thomas Barry, Esq., of 

 Wexford, a species of shrew, which Mr. Kinahan considered to be Sorex rusticus. 

 Also, an undescribed species of Entozoa, taken from the pectoral muscles of Tetrao- 

 don Pennantii. The discovery of that rare fish, taken at Ardmore, Waterford, had 

 been recorded by Mr. Sargint. The Entozoon belonged to the genus Echinorhynchus. 

 Mr. Kinahan also begged to present a bat, obtained at Feacle, county Clare, in Au- 

 gust, 1852. He referred it, though in doubt, to the species Vespertilio Daubentonii, 

 which has already been once obtained in this country, in Londonderry. The species 

 now exhibited was captured by a cat, and is a male. Mr. Kinahan referred it to Dau- 

 bentonii, for the following reasons : — 1. The number of false molars, 6 and 6, refer it 

 to that division of the genus Vespertilio. 2. Its dimensions agree pretty well; they 

 are: — length of head and body, 2 inches ; tail, 1# inch ; spread of wings in a straight 



