Northern Entomological Society. 5647 



Mr. F. Moore communicated a paper ' On the Habits of some Birds observed in 

 the Plains of N.W. India in 1849,' by the Rev. T. Philipps, Baptist missionary. 

 The names of the birds described in this paper (sixty in number) had been determined 

 by comparison with specimens in the museum of the Hon. East India Company. 



Mr. Moore read a paper containing descriptions of some new species of Lepidopte- 

 rous insects from Northern India, characterized as follows: — PierisNama, E. Double- 

 day, MS.; P. Seta, Moore; P. Sanaca, Moore; P. India, Moore; P. Durvasa, 

 Moore ; and Papilio Janaka, Moore. — D. W. M. 



Northern Entomological Society. 

 March 14, 1857. — B. Cooke, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Election of Members. 



The Rev. P. H. Newnham, of Guildford ; William Simmons, Esq., of Wentworth ; 

 John Angelo Wasse, Esq., of Manchester; and — Linton, Esq., of Manchester, were 

 elected Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



The Rev. H. H. Higgins brought for exhibition two of the drawers belonging to 

 the local cabinet of the Liverpool Royal Institution, filled with Diptera and Hyme- 

 noptera which he had captured within fifteen miles of Liverpool. The manner in 

 which the collection was got up elicited great admiration, and the extent of the col- 

 lection took some of the members by surprise. The whole were collected, named and 

 arranged, by Mr. Higgins, in two seasons. 



The President exhibited a box of Diptera which he had been naming. They were 

 collected by Mr. Birchall, in Yorkshire. 



Mr. Simmons sent a large packet of the larvae of Depressaria assimilella for dis- 

 tribution. 



Mr. Gregson exhibited a box of Tineina which Mr. Buxton had kindly sent to 

 the Meeting. Amongst them were several interesting species. 



Mr. E. Birchall brought several large boxes of South-American Lepidoptera, prin- 

 cipally butterflies and Sphinges, containing many hundreds of specimens, which he 

 distributed amongst the members. They were collected by Mr. Henry Birchall, in 

 the last week in July, 1856, daring his ascent of the river Magdalena, principally at 

 the stations where the steamer called for fuel, &c. Amongst the Sphinges were many 

 rare species, nine being quite new to Mr. N. Cooke's already extensive collection of 

 the Sphinges of the world. 



Mr. Birchall also brought a large box full of beautiful bird-skins, principally 

 humming birds, for distribution ; and afterwards exhibited a box of British Lepi- 

 doptera, in which was Dasycampa rubiginea, taken on ivy, last season, near Dublin, 

 being a new locality for this species, hitherto considered rare. An interesting discus- 

 sion ensued, in which a member observed that he had no doubt rubiginea might be 

 taken freely near Conway, and called the attention of the Meeting to Godarth Wood, 

 between Conway and Llandudno, as a most promising locality for that and other 



