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on the 6th of February, I860, were derived, especially as the species has hitherto only 

 been recorded as captured in the Scandinavian district of Europe. I first took it in 

 this vicinity (Newcastle)., in May, 1827, in some numbers, and not finding it agree 

 with any of the species described by Marsham, I waited till Mr. Stephens' ' Illustrations,' 

 then just commencing, had reached the Bembidiidae. Being equally unable to identify 

 it with any of his descriptions I named it Tachypus nigripes, and during that and the 

 two or three following years distributed it amongst my correspondents under that name. 

 In this way the cabinets of Mr. Dale, Mr. Waterhouse, Mr. Babington, Mr. Sparshall, 

 Dr. Howitt, Mr. Rudd, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Curtis, and no doubt others, were supplied ; 

 and when I arranged my own cabinet of Coleoptera, on the appearance of the second 

 edition of Stephens' ' Nomenclature,' in 1833, I placed it there under the above name. 

 Here the specimens remained, and the circumstances had escaped my memory until 

 just before Mr. Waterhouse's notice was read before the Society, when my old friend 

 Mr. Dale reminded me of them, saying he had forwarded a specimen to Mr. Water- 

 house. 



" It would appear that Gyllenhal had detected the species before me, as his volume 

 was published in 1827. Flis description, as well as that of Jacquelin du Val, accords 

 very well with my specimens, though I cannot help thinking that my name was the 

 more appropriate one, as well as distinguishing it at once from Marsham's rufipes. 



" I am sorry to trouble the Society with this trifling communication, but as our 

 * Transactions ' afford the only printed means of intercourse with our continental 

 brethren I may perhaps be excused doing so." 



Mr. Walker read a description of a new genus and species of Noctuites. The insect 

 described was unique. It was discovered at Halifax, Nova Scotia, by B. Piffard, Esq., 

 and by him presented to the British Museum. It belonged to the family Glottulidae 

 of Guenee, and was described by Mr. Walker under the name of Phornacisa PiffardL 



Mr. W. F. Kirby read some " Notes and Observations on the Lepidoptera Rhopa- 

 locera occurring in the county of Sussex," and exhibited some specimens in illus- 

 tration. 



Captain Cox, after referring to certain letters and articles which had recently 

 appeared in the ' Times' and other papers on the subject of the ravages committed by 

 Scolytus destructor, objected to some of the statements therein contained, and in par- 

 ticular to the assertions that this subject seemed scarcely to have received from scien- 

 tific men the attention it deserved, and that any method of prevention or cure seemed 

 to be unknown. Captain Cox reminded the Society of the nature, extent and successful 

 result of the experiments made by himself during the last twenty years, and maintained 

 that his plan of partially barking the affected trees was completely successful. He 

 said that he had that morning been with the First Commissioner of Public Works to 

 inspect the trees in the Parks, which were in a bad state. 



Captain Cox also made some remarks on the injury done to the oaks by Sesia 

 Cyuipiformis, and to the lime trees by Cb ry soclysta Linneella, and suggested that the 

 lime trees should be treated in the same way as the elms which were attacked by Sco- 

 lytus.— J. W. D. 



