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" Rhamphidia longirostris, Wied., July 6, two females on the borders of a pond in 

 a copse; I could not find the male. The species has not been taken in Eng- 

 land before, but it has occurred in Ireland, where also, in company with Mr. 

 Haliday, on the damp and shady rocks on the shores of the Shannon, I took 

 Geranomyia unicolor. 



Thalyera sericea, Sturm (Strongylus fervidus, Oliv.), July 14, off sallows. 



Mylaechus brunneus, Lat., July 23. 



Quedius rufitarsis, Mars., August 2, on parsnip-flowers, Dover. 



Latridius nodifer, Westw., July 3, off a hedge. 



Malachius marginellus, Fab., July 30, by Ziczac, Dover. 



Miarus Campanula?, Linn., July 14, in flowers of Campanula rotundifolia. 



Cocciuella ocellata, Linn., July 21, under fir-trees, Eridge Park." 



Entomologists treated as Trespassers. 



The Secretary read a newspaper account of the committal to prison for trial of two 

 poor working entomologists on a charge of setting fire to the furze on Putney Heath. 

 It did not appear from the report that there was any proof that the act was committed 

 by the men, and, as they justly stated, the fire would destroy the insects they sought. 

 A conversation then arose respecting the difficulty experienced by collectors of insects 

 arising from the illiberality of landed proprietors, and their encroachments upon the 

 public right of way, of which some instances were adduced ; and it was suggested, 

 whether the Society might not in some degree mitigate the annoyance, by giving its 

 Members a certificate that they were such, and that into woods and such-like places 

 they went only in pursuit of insects. 



Field-study of the Tineina. 



Mr. Stainton laid on the table an invitation to such persons as wished to study 

 the Natural History of the Tineina in the field, to meet at his house every Wednesday 

 evening during the summer, and make an excursion in the neighbourhood. — J. W. D. 



Dublin Natural History Society. 



February 10, 1854.— Dr. Goedon, M.R.I.A., in the chair. 



Donation. 



Mr. Kinahan presented to the Society two volumes of Pennant's ' British Zoology,' 

 interesting as containing original plates of discoveries in the Zoology of the British Isles. 



Mr. Callwell, in proposing a vote of thanks for the donation, observed that works 

 of such a class were valuable to the Society as records of the state of Zoology of that 

 day, and as comparison with the present superiority of all works of the kind, and of 

 the advanced state of scientific research. The works of Pennant, however, were well 

 known for the accuracy of his inquiries. 



Membranaceous Duck, Dusky Petrel, and Manx Shearwater. 



Mr. Andrews then said that he had a few remarks to make relative to the paper 

 brought forward on a former evening, on the capture of the membranaceous duck, in 



