5180 Insects. — Radio ta. 



tain, as they are very local and precious few. I have been on the look-out for the last 

 three years for intricatus, always expecting to take it at sugar, as I never sugared in 

 Bickleigh without taking catenulatus in plenty and sometimes violaceus, but intrica- 

 tus has not paid me a visit yet ; however, I hope some night it will be so obliging. — 

 J. J. Reading; Plymouth, June 24, 1856. 



Entomological Meeting at Reigate. — The members of the Entomological Society, 

 and friends, were invited down to Keigate by their estimable President on Saturday 

 last; and after a most delightful ramble on the Buckland Hills and the adjoining 

 country, returned at five o'clock to the Swan Inn to a cold collation, kindly provided 

 by the President. There were thirty-eight present, including Drs. Gray, Alexander 

 and Baly; Messrs. Ward, E. Sheppard, Schofield, Grove, A. F. Sheppard, Wollaston, 

 Pickersgill, Pascoe, F. Saunders, Fenning, Marshall, Westwood, F. Smith, A. White, 

 Linnell, Syme, Stainton, F. Walker, Capt. Cox, Edwin Shepherd, S. Stevens, Mlers, 

 Hudson, Dutton, F. Bond, S. Waring, Matthew Marshall, E. Janson, Kev. W. Har- 

 rison, Vicar of Reigate, Brewer, F. Moore, &c. : some excellent and appropriate 

 speeches were made by the President, Dr. Gray, Mr. Westwood, Mr. Fenning and 

 others. Mr. Fenning proposed the health, in a numerous speech, of the insect of the 

 day, Callistus lunatus, or lunaticus, as he was pleased to call it, and Mr. Janson re- 

 turned thanks. Besides seven or eight beautiful species of Orchises gathered on the 

 hills, some scarce insects were captured, including Callistus lunatus, Synealiptra are- 

 naria, Drilus flavescens, Aphodius 4-pustulalus, some rare Staphylinidaa in Fungi, &c. 

 —S. S. 



Capture of Heliomanes Umbellatarum. — I took a stroll last evening with my chil- 

 dren into Burnt-ash Lane, and succeeded in obtaining two specimens of that rare 

 little longicorn, Heliomanes Umbellatarum, by beating the dead sticks wherewith the 

 gaps in the hedges had been mended. — J. W. Douglas ; 6, King's Wood Place, Lee, 

 June 26, 1856. 



Boxes for the transmission of Insects by Post. — Mr. John Bolt, of Broad Street, 

 Bristol, has sent me a sample box, of his own making, admirably adapted for trans- 

 mitting insects by post. It is light, and is so firm as to resist a considerable blow 

 with a heavy round ruler; but whether it would maintain its integrity under the 

 sledge-hammer of the official stamper I caunot say. — Edward Newman. 



Occurrence in Britain of Edwardsia vestita. — I have the pleasure of recording the 

 finding, on the Welch coast, of this very remarkable tube-making Actinoid, hitherto 

 only met with, as far as I am aware, in the Grecian Archipelago, by the late Profes- 

 sor Edward Forbes. I have procured eighteen specimens, some of which are in the 

 aquarium of the Zoological Society in Regent's Park, and others are in my own col- 

 lection, which I shall be happy to show to any one interested in these matters. The 

 tube is not merely an investment of gravel, small stones, &c, with which Sagartia 

 bellis, Bunodes crassicornis, and some other Actinia) are covered occasionally ; but it 

 is a true leathery tube, composed of layers of glutinous material and mud, as-regular 

 and continuous as that of the Sabells. The animal is vermiform, and, like other 

 A< lil) i$ linking the genus with the Annelida and Eehinoderm.ita, the period of 



