49(52 Entomological Society. 



November; by the Editor. * Eevue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1855, Nos. 8 and 9; by 

 the Editor, M. F. E. Guerin-Meneville. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for 

 October; by the Society. 'The Athenaeum' for October; by the Editor. 'The 

 Literary Gazette' for October; by the Editor. ' Entomologische Zeitung' for 

 September and October; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Winter, a specimen of Phlogophora 

 empyrea, a Noctua new to Britain, recently taken by him at sugar near Brighton ; also 

 some extraordinary varieties of Agrotis segetum and A. exclamationis. Mr. Winter 

 also sent for exhibition a fine female specimen of Ennomos Alniaria, taken on a lamp 

 at Brighton: the only other authentic British specimen of this species hitherto known 

 was taken on the North Foreland Lighthouse several years since, and is now in 

 Mr. Shepherd's collection. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Henry Cooke, a specimen of Polyommatus 

 Agestis, which closely approached the Scotch specimens known as P. Artaxerxes, the 

 pupils to the ocelli on the under side being obsolete. 



Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited a new British Tortrix, recently taken at Hayling 

 Island, near Havant; also specimens of Goniodoma auroguttella, F.-v.R., taken by 

 him in August last, in the Isle of Wight ; and a specimen of Dictyopteryx uliginosana, 

 Bent., from Ely, Cambridgeshire: the only two specimens of this last species hitherto 

 known were taken near Yaxley many years since, and are now in Mr. Shepherd's 

 collection. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a specimen of the rare Quedius dilatatus, found in a hive 

 of the honey-bee, and also the net-work cocoons of Hypera rumicis ; both com- 

 municated by Professor Henslow. The President remarked that M. Gory had 

 informed him that he once took a number of the Quedius in Fontainebleau Forest, 

 in the neighbourhood of a hornet's nest. Mr. Stevens said that a specimen had 

 recently been taken by Mr. Turner in the New Forest, in the decaying carcase of a 

 heifer. Mr. Waterhouse observed that M. Chevrolat had informed him that he found 

 this species at night on trees infested with the larva of Cossus ; and Captain Parry 

 once found a specimen in his own garden under the loose bark of a tree so infested. 



Mr. Foxcroft brought for exhibition a large collection of Lepidoptera and 

 Coleoptera, taken by him during the past season in Scotland. 



Mr. Syme exhibited specimens of the rare Sphaerites glabratus, taken by him from 

 Fungi at Kincardine. 



Mr. Stevens stated that, on his recent visit to Paris, he found a preparation of 

 naphtha very successfully applied to removing grease from insects: he had, since his 

 return home, found that a similar article was manufactured at Liverpool, and sold 

 under the name of "Copland's Rectified Borneote of Petroline;" this he had found 

 equally as useful as the French preparation for extracting grease, and exhibited a 

 number of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera which he had so cleaned : the highly volatile 

 nature of these preparations is said to give them an advantage over camphine for this 

 purpose, in not requiring the specimens to be subsequently placed in magnesia or 

 other absorbent powder. 



Dr. Power exhibited specimens of Notiophilus rufipes, which species he had 

 recently taken at Shirley, near Croydon, also near Gravesend, and at Cowley, near 

 Uxbridgc : he also exhibited an opaque female of Hydroporus picipes ; in this species 

 both sexes are usually glabrous. 



