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Entomological Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Pieris Daplidice, taken by Mr. Shiekle on the 

 Kentish coast. 



Mr. Bond exhibited specimens of Laphygma exigua and Heliothis armigera, taken 

 at Freshwater ; also single examples of Noetua flammatra and Leucania exiranea, 

 from the same locality ; these two last-mentioned species being additions to the list 

 of British Noctuae, and the latter especially remarkable as not being hitherto recorded 

 as an European insect, although found in various parts of America, Asia and Aus- 

 tralia. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Matthews, a specimen of Aspilates 

 sacraria, taken by him in Devonshire; and on the part of Mr. Lynch, a fine specimen 

 of Acidalia rubricaria, taken in Kent. 



Mr. Smith exhibited a specimen of Aspilates sacraria, taken on Banstead Downs, 

 on the 22nd of August last ; and a number of the original drawings of the illustrations 

 of Roesel's * Insecten Belustigung, lent to him by Dr. Gunther. 



Dr. Allchin exhibited a specimen of Lycaena Bcetiea, taken near Brighton on the 

 7th of August last, and the first known instance of the occurrence of the species in 

 Britain ; and an example of Leucania extranea taken near Lewes on the 9th of Sep- 

 tember. He also exhibited specimens of Coremia ferrugata and the variety called 

 unidentala by Haworth, taken in copula. 



Dr. Allchin also exhibited beautiful drawings of Lycaena boetica and Leucania 

 extranea, made by Mr. W. S. Coleman. 



Mr. Stainton observed with reference to the occurrence of L. bcetiea in England, 

 that the species is usually rare in the north of Paris, but this season it had been very 

 abundant in the north of France, and also in the Channel Islands; it was not, there- 

 fore, to be wondered at that it should have reached our southern coast. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a specimen Of Pterophorus brachydactylus, taken in Cum- 

 berland by Mr. Hodgkinson ; this being the second British specimen of the insect, of 

 which a single specimen had occurred in Norfolk more than twelve years ago. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a drawing of a new species of Lithocolletis (L. Helianthemi) 

 with a cocoon of the insect ; the habit of this species was altogether abnormal, as the 

 larva, which mines the under side of the leaves of the Helianthemum vulgare, quits the 

 mine to undergo the change to the pupa state, and forms a flattish, white cocoon, very 

 similar to those formed by some larvae of the genus Gracilaria. The perfect iusect 

 has considerable resemblance to L. sylvella, and, despite the habit of the larva, appears 

 to be a veritable Lithocolletis. Mr. S. has received the drawing and cocoons from 

 Herr Hofraann, of Ratisbon. 



Mr. F. Moore exhibited the larvae of the Eria moth, of Bengal (S. Ricini, Boisd.), 

 and of the hybrid between it and the Eria of China (S. Cynthia, Drury), reared from 

 eggs received from M. Guerin-Mene ville. The larvae have been fed on the castor-oil 

 plant (Ricinus Palma-Christi). 



Mr. Gorham exhibited some Coleoptera taken near Westerham, including Amara 

 ruficincta, Tetratoma Desmarestii and Philonthus thermarum ; also Stenolophus Skrim- 

 sbiranus, from Hammersmith. 



Mr. Trimen exhibited a further portion of the entomological collection made 

 by him in South Africa, and part of which had been exhibited at the September 

 meeting of the Society ; amongst the Lepidoptera were some splendid Hepialidae and 

 Zygaenidae. 



