Entomological Society. 4273 



Varieties of Lepidoptera taken near Ipswich. 

 Mr. Curtis, referring- to the curious varieties of two species of Argynnis, captured 

 near Ipswich, which were exhibited at the last meeting, said that that locality seemed 

 prolific in curious varieties, for he had seen several of various Lepidoptera taken there. 

 Mr. Desvignes also made a similar statement. 



Capture of Hemerobius dipterus. 

 The President announced the capture by Mr. Dale, at Langport, in Dorsetshire, 

 of Hemerobius dipterus. This insect was previously known as German, but not as 

 British, and adds still another to the interesting contributions made to British Ento- 

 mology by this most indefatigable and successful collector. The species was first de- 

 scribed from a German specimen, in Burmeister's ' Handbuch der Entomologie,' vol. 

 iii. p. 973; and a second time by Mr. Walker, in the * Catalogue of Neuropterous 

 Insects in the British Museum,' part iii. p. 298. 



Works on Zoology and Geology. 

 The President said that he had again been requested to state, that Sir William 

 Jardine would be happy to receive any additions, from authors of works on Zoology 

 and Geology, to the lists of their writings already sent in for publication by the Ray 

 Society ; the appearance of this bibliographical volume having been delayed by the 

 untimely death of the lamented Mr. Strickland, to whom it had been entrusted. 



Insects of Moreton Bay. 

 The President mentioned that he had received a communication from Mr. Rawns- 

 ley, offering to collect insects for the Society, or any of its Members, at Moreton Bay, 

 in New South Wales. 



Larva of Monodontomerus. 



Read, a letter from G. Newport, Esq., F.R.S., &c, controverting at great length 

 some of the statements of Mr. F. Smith respecting Monodontomerus, published in the 

 * Transactions ' of the Linnean and this Society, and claiming the prior discovery of 

 the larva. 



Mr. Smith briefly replied that he had nothing to retract, and was content to abide 

 by his former statements. 



Phosphorescence of the Larva of an Insect. 

 The following paper was read : — 



" Observations on the Phosphorescence of the Larva of an Insect." By J. Rein- 

 hardt. Read before the Association of Naturalists at Copenhagen, at the meeting on 

 the 18th of February, 1853* 



" In April, 1852, on arriving towards the conclusion of my stay at Lagoa Santa, 

 the larva of an insect, an inch and a half long, and emitting a strong light of a very 

 peculiar kind, was brought to me, having been caught in a house just as it was creep- 

 ing out from under a piece of timber lying in a passage. It had been seen the even- 



* Translated from the Danish by Dr. Wallich, F.R.S., V.P. Linn. Soc. 

 XIT. R 



