MEETINGS. 17 



Reaumer corrected and amplified this description in the 

 Memoires III., pp. 179 et seq., and gave figures of the case, 

 larva and female, PL XV., figs 1-6, 17-19. It was after- 

 wards described by Geoffroy (His. des Ins., p. 204), and later 

 named lichenosa by him in " Fourcroys," Ent. Paris, p. 336. 



Just previous to this, however, Geoze had named the 

 insect lapidella, whilst in 1 838 Zeller named it lapidicella, 

 both the latter authors taking as their types the same 

 bibliographical references to Reaumer and Geoffroy. Dupon- 

 chel, however, independently described the male insect as 

 pectinella, and Guenee averred (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 

 Second Series, IV., p. 11) that it was the most common 

 Micro-psychid, the cases occuring in hundreds, and the 

 imagos entering the rooms even in the middle of Paris. It 

 was Guenee, too, who referred Duponchel's pectinella to this 

 species, although he himself adopted Zeller's name, changing 

 its form, however, to lapidicella. The male has not yet 

 been bred in Britain, although we refer cases obtained by 

 Bankes in Purbeck, and by Richardson in Portland, hereto, 

 and suspect that the cases obtained by Edelston on an old 

 limestone wall between Conway and Llandudno, as well as 

 Gregson's Psyche hibernicella, should also be so referred ; but 

 until the male is bred, there must always be the suspicion 

 that the British insect may be Luffia ferchaulteda (pomonas). 



In Coleoptera I have to add three species to the list. 



Monochammus sutor, one of the Longicorn beetles, was 

 taken in Mr. Robilliard's timber yard at the Piette. It is a 

 very rare British specie^. 



Helaerius sesquicornis was captured by Mr. Brockton 

 Tomlin in a room at a house he was lodging in at St. 

 Sampson's. It is a very interesting species, being only 

 found in ants' nests or their neighbourhood. Mr. Tomlin 

 says that there was an ant's nest under the window sill of 

 the room, from which the beetle no doubt came. 



Homalium excavatnm. Several were taken by Mr. 

 Tomlin at St. Sampson's. Several specimens of that curious 

 Hemipterous insect, Ranatra linearis, have been taken in 

 ponds at L'Ancresse. It is recorded in our list as rare. 



Two specimens of the rarest of British Saw Flies, Sirex 

 juvencus, were brought to me by a workman, having flown 

 into Mr. Frampton's workshop in Victoria Road. It is 

 curious that one of the same species flew into my work- 

 shop window in the Bordage at about the same time. 



Two additions have been made to the list of Diptera, viz., 

 Conovs quadrifasciatus, a handsome species, and the little 



