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Pcvdisca solandriana, J u]y 18th. Epld'irpii'iliora himacxiJarm, Kn^nt 15th. Coccyx 

 ustoniaculana, Dicrorampha plwnhagana, June 3rd. Orapholita ulicetana_ 0. Scopo- 

 liana, Xyhypoda Fahriciana, Eupoecilia ciliella, beginning of June, end of June, and 

 end of July, among heather. I sent a specimen of this to Mr. Barrett,* as E. 

 subroseana, as he had expressed a desire to see the heath-frequenting species re- 

 corded under this name (vide E. M. M., vol. v, p. 246). He, however, kindly told 

 mo that it was the above species. The few specimens I took vary much. The 

 true subroseana does not appear to be a northern or heath-frequenting species. 

 Argyrolepia suhhaumanniana, Aphelia pratana. — F. Buchanan White, Perth, Marchy 

 1869. 



Bullettino della Socictd Entomologica Italiana ; anno primo ; Firenze, 1869. 



We announced some time since that, through the exertions of Mr. A. H. Haliday, 

 long resident at Lucca, combined with those of leading Italian Entomologists, an 

 Entomological Society had been established in Italy ; and we recently had the 

 pleasure of receiving the first part of their Bulletin, which is most creditable. It 

 is occupied, as it should be, chiefly by articles on Italian insects, by various authors, 

 among whom we see the well-known names of Rondani, Piccioli, and Ghiliaui, with 

 others not yet so familiar. A coloured plate is devoted to a Hymenopteron de- 

 scribed by Piccioli as Astata Costce (is not this a $ of J., oculata, Jurine? ). Four 

 parts, of 80 pages each, will be published annually. We have private information 

 that the second will contain a paper by Mr. Haliday, on a new species of Cassida^ 

 collected by him in Sicily, which he proposes to name C. sucedce, accompanied by 

 figures of the larva; it frequents Suceda fruticosa. 



The establishment of this Society institutes a new era in Italian Entomology. 

 Hitherto the numerous valuable memoirs by the workers in that, by nature, much- 

 favoured land, have been almost useless to most students, through having been 

 published in some one or other of the Transactions of the Academies devoted to 

 general science, and which exist here in very few libraries ; the Bulletin of the new 

 society will, on the contrary, gain a wide circulation. 



Mr. Wilson Saunders, of Hillfield, Reigate, has, with his usual generosity, 

 undertaken to act as agent of the Society in England, and gentlemen desirous of 

 becoming members should communicate with him, or with Mr. Haliday, YillaPisani, 

 Lucca. The annual subscription is ten shillings in England, for which the Bulletin 

 will be forwarded free. 



ENT0M0L0GICA.L SOCIETY OF LoNDON ; IZth Fehruaryy 1869. — H. W. Bates, Esq., 

 F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Wynne Foot, of Dublin, was elected a Subscriber. 



Mr. Butler exhibited a living locust belonging to the genus ConocepTialus, which 

 had been found in the beginning of the month, on board a vessel arrived from the 

 West Coast of Africa. According to the captain's account, a swarm of these insects 

 had alighted upon the vessel, and several had arrived alive in the Thames ; the 

 specimen exhibited had not eaten anything since being in Mr. Butler's possession. 



Professor Westwood exhibited two NycteHbidoe, from Ceylon, parasitic upon bats, 

 a Strehla and a Nyctei-ihia. These insects were prepared as microscopic objects, by 

 first being squeezed between the leaves of a book, afterwards placed upon the slide, 

 and hot canada-balsam poured upon them. 



* Mr. Barrett h is inadvertently stated in hi.s interesting notice of certain species of EupoecUia, that 

 I took this species near Kirkwall. It should have been near Diugwall.— F. B. W. 



