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Moths,' (vol. ii. p. 67). Mr. Stephens had inserted the species in the Museum Cata- 

 logue under the name of Dasydia torvaria ; but Mr. Westwood was now of opinion, 

 from reference to Duponchel's figure and description, that it was Cleogene Peletieraria. 

 Mr. Westwood also exhibited some larvae in a bottle, which, from the locality of their 

 capture on the coast, near Dublin, he thought might be those of Diglossa mersa. 



Mr. Smith exhibited the same Anthophorabia he brought to the last meeting, still 

 alive ; also larvae of Anthophora retusa, covered with larvae of Anthophorabia and 

 Monodontomerus, both apparently parasitical thereon : and he read a series of obser- 

 vations on the structure and oeconomy of Anthophorabia. The chairman referred to 

 the unprecedented circumstance of an insect without reticulated eyes possessing ocelli, 

 as Mr. Smith was positive is the case in this instance ; and Mr. Newman noticed, as 

 most rare among insects, the fact reported of the male pairing consecutively with seve- 

 ral females, and still surviving. Mr. Waterhouse, Mr. Curtis, and Mr. Hudson also 

 made some remarks on the subject. 



Mr. Wallace read the commencement of a paper " On the habits of the Butterflies 

 of the Amazonian Valley," which will be resumed at the next meeting. — /. W. D. 



Proceedings of the Society of British Entomologists. 



October 4, 1853. — Mr. Harding, President, in the chair. 



The President exhibited the following insects: — Exaeretia Allisella, taken on the 

 sand-hills near Sandwich, Kent, being a new locality, Mr. Allis having captured this 

 insect in Cumberland; Sphaleroptera ictericana, with the pupa and case, the larva 

 having fed on the flowers of the mouse-ear hawkweed, (Hieracium Pilosella) ; Scia- 

 phila Perterana, with pupa and case, the larva having fed on the flowers of the great 

 white ox-eye {Chrysanthemum leucanthemum) ; Depressaria Alstrcemeriana, with the 

 pupa and case, the larva having fed on the flowers of the common hemlock (Conium 

 maculatum). 



The President said a specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli was taken near his residence 

 in Shoreditch ; and that another was brought to him at Darenth Wood, having been 

 picked up in the road : he also stated that he had taken a splendid pair of Notodonta 

 dictseoides near Dartford, and Hadena lutulenta at Darenth Wood. 



November 1, 1853. — Mr. Harding, President, in the chair. 



The President read an extract from a letter received from Mr. Oxley, in Australia, 

 in which the writer says, — " My man Jemmy had a large blue-bottle blow in his ear, 

 and was nearly distracted for days, until I discovered the cause, and extracted seven 

 large larvae." 



The President exhibited a beautiful variety of Ephyra Porata, and a singular va- 

 riety of Argynnis Euphrosyne, taken in Hainault Forest ; likewise a variety of Calli- 

 morpha dominula, the black marks on the inferior wings being obliterated and replaced 

 by yellow ones. He also stated that he had taken some fine specimens of Aporophila 

 australis, Leucania crassicornis, Calocampa vetusta, with several Peroneae, and a Ge- 

 lechia not named, near Deal, in October. The President also stated that a friend of 



