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Entomological Society. 



"3. Harpalus (Ophouus) parallelus, Dejean, Sp. gen. 17.219,25 (1829); Icon. 

 120, 25, tab. 183, f. 4 (1834). Schaum, Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. i. 580, 12 

 (1860). Captured by tbe late H. Squire, ou the Sussex coast, February, 1858. 



"4. Aleoehara moerens, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. 493, 53 — 54 (1827). Eric. Gen. et 

 Spec. Staph. 169, 22 (1839). Kraatz, Naturgesck. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 103, 23 

 (1856). 



"Aleoehara lugubris, Aub6, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. 2me Ser. viii. 313 (1850) ; Fairm. 

 et Laboulb. Faune Ent. Frang. col. i. 448, 19 (1856). Found by the late J. Fox- 

 croft, in Perthshire, in 1855. 



"5. Homalota Thomsoni, Janson. 



" Homalota nigricoruis, Thomson, Ofv. af Kon. Vet. Acad. Fork, 142, 42 (1850). 

 Kraatz, Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 281, 88 (1856), nec Steph. 



"Aleoehara excavata? Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. 490, 30—31 (1827). Captured by 

 himself, near Hampstead, Middlesex, April, 1857. 



"6. Xantholinus atratus, Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. i. 246, 7 (1839). Kraatz, 

 Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 636, 5 (1857). Discovered by himself in a nest of 

 Formica rufa, near Highgate, Middlesex, October, 1856. 



" 7. Thinobius brevipennis, v. Kiesenw. Stettin. Ent. Zeit. xi.221 (1850). Kraatz, 

 Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 885, 5 (1858). Taken by himself in Holme Fen, 

 Huntingdonshire, May, 1859." 



Mr. Kuspini exhibited a coloured figure of a variety of Lycaena Phlaeas. The 

 specimen was captured on Norwood Common in the autumn of 1858, and was princi- 

 pally remarkable for the absence of the usual coppery border of the posterior win»s, 

 and for the presence ou each of the same pair of wings of three straight rather broad 

 sharply-defined radiating bars, of a bright copper colour. 



Mr. Lubbock requested Members of the Society to supply him with any speci- 

 mens of Thysanura which it might be in their power to furnish. 



Dr. Wallace, after recalling to the recollection of the Meeting a letter addressed 

 to him by Captain Russell, of Monk's Eleigh, Suffolk, and which was read at the 

 Meeting of the Society, held on the 2nd of December, 1861, now introduced Captain 

 Russell to the Society, and exhibited on his behalf specimens of Callimorpha Hera, 

 Argynnis L;ithoniu, Eulepia grammica, a suffused dark variety of Vanessa Urticae, 

 Anesychia Echiella, and an insect which was apparently Cabera rotundaria. 



Captain Russell said that of Callimorpha Hera (which in Doubleday's ' List of 

 Lepidoptera' was included amongst the " Reputed British Species") he captured five 

 specimens on the 27th of July, 1859. The following is an extract from his diary for 

 that day: — " Drove from Rhuabon to Wrexham ; beautiful day, but very hot; about 

 two miles from Wrexham some beautiful butterflies, one sort with brilliant scarlet 

 wings ; couutiy very hilly, not well cultivated." Captain Russell was at that time 

 unable to distinguish between Rhopalocera and Heterocera ; and the " butterflies with 

 brilliant scarlet wings" turned out to be C. Hera. The place where they were cap- 

 tured was a stony hill-side, quite uncultivated ; the time about 5 p. m. The flight of 

 the insects was sluggish, and from full flight their subsidence to perfect rest was ap- 

 parently instantaneous. The wings lay flat upon the surface on which the insect 

 rested, and none of the scarlet of the under wings was then visible. Each of the five 

 specimens captured was taken off a bramble-leaf. The spot was revisited about 

 11 a. m. on the following day, but not a specimen was to be seen. 



