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one side, with an eye to the roof, lest I should chance to run against some of the pro- 

 jections. At last, however, just as we were giving it up as a bad job, I captured one, 

 and then another, and so on until I filled the whole of my boxes. They are very 

 plentiful, and may be taken at all seasons. They are only found in places which have 

 been wrought out and left for some time, and where the air is very bad, as it was with 

 difficulty we could keep our lights burning. In no place where the miners were at 

 work could we get the least trace of one, nor had they (the miners) ever observed one. 

 These insects fly very quick : they never ventured to approach our lights, — in fact, 

 they seemed not to be aware of the presence of such a thing. That they are bred 

 there may be assumed from their numbers, as also from there being nowhere for them 

 to enter except by the mouth of the mine, and at the distance stated above ; yet upon 

 what the caterpillar subsists I could not discover. They lurk amongst the pieces of 

 blaes or schist which have been blown out and are there piled up in heaps on either 

 side, as on moving them we saw (by the aid of our lights) several. Good specimens 

 have a rich purple shade in some lights, and the line of a golden yellow. — John Scott ; 

 86, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, November 2, 1849. 



[In many of the continental mines luminous or phosphorescent thallogens occur in 

 great abundance, and these would of course afford food to the larvae of a Tinea. I 

 shall be glad to hear whether any such vegetation exists in the coal mine in question. 

 I shall be greatly obliged for specimens of the perfect insect to deposit in the cabinet 

 of the Entomological Club, and also to hand to Messrs. Doubleday and Stainton, who 

 are so laudably engaged in working out our Micro-Lepidoptera. — Edward Newman.'] 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



November 5, 1849. — G. R. Waterhotjse, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 respective donors : Ten portraits of modern naturalists ; presented by G. Ransome, 

 Esq., of Ipswich. ' Kaferfauna der Preuszischen Rheinlande,' vol. i. 8vo. ; presented 

 by M. Bach, the author. ' Insectes Coleopteres de la Siberie Orientale nouveaux ou 

 peu connus;' presented by M. le Comte Mannerheim, the author. ' Memoires de la 

 Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve,' torn. xii. partie Ire ; ' Obser- 

 vations Astronomiques faites dans 1847 et 1848, a l'Observatoire de Geneve,' Supp. 1 

 et 2 ; presented by the Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve. 



Mr. Bond exhibited bred specimens of Chilo gigantellus (male and female), two 

 singular varieties of Nonagria Typhae, and three new Tineidae. 



Mr. Ingpen exhibited some fossil wings of insects, chiefly Phryganeae, from the 

 insect-limestone of Gloucestershire. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited Argyresthia Spiniella, Zeller, and A. amiantella, Z. ? ob- 

 serving that in the latter the palpi were much longer than in Ocnerostoma Pinianella, 

 which in appearance it much resembled : the former of these species was taken by 

 Mr. Stainton, at Torwood, in Stirlingshire ; the latter by Mr. Dunning, at Brandon. 

 He also exhibited a leaf of the sallow rolled up by the larva of Gracillaria stigma- 

 tella ; leaves of Hypericum pulchrum rolled up by Gracillaria auroguttella ? ; pupao 

 of Lithocolletis Schreberella in leaves of elm, and of L. Alnifoliella, six in one leaf 

 of alder : he observed, that as alders grow in wet places, the leaves would fall in many 

 instances into water, and the pupae existing in them between the cuticles be 

 destroyed, which would account for the comparative rarity of the perfect insect. 



