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phragwiatellus, Bent, (which he distributed amongst the members), a fine speci- 

 men of Acidalia rubricaria captured near York, Gelechia inornatella, Melosoma 

 bipunctellus, Lithoculletis irradiella, QEcophora formosella, Coleophora chalcogram- 

 mella, and C. Frieshella. 



Mr. Buxton exhibited a box of Lepidoptera, the most interesting species in which 

 was a fine specimen of Heliothis armigera ; he also distributed, a number of Harpa- 

 l}ce picaria amongst the members. 



Mr. Hague exhibited six hybrids between Sraerinthus Populi and S. ocellatus, 

 which he had bred from eggs obtained by Mr. A. Lomax, who has devoted much time 

 to breeding hybrids. 



Mr. Carter exhibited a box of exotic Coleoptera, from his collection, containing 

 twenty-eight species of Longicorns, unnamed ; they had recently been returned from 

 Mons. Chevrolat, of Paris, as new species. Two of them were from Australia, one 

 from Texas, three from Venezuela, two from Silhet, two from Brazil, five from North 

 America, one from the East Indies, and of the remainder country unknown. 



Mr. Linton exhibited a box of Hymenoptera containing many interesting species. 



Mr. Greening exhibited a large box containing specimens in several orders, prin- 

 cipally Hymenoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera. The most noticeable species in this 

 box were, — in Hymenoptera, Cimbex femorata and Hylotoma ustulata ; in Diptera, 

 Chironomus rufipes, Erioptera maculata and nodulosa, Limnobia lineola, nigrina, 

 punctata, vagans, tripunctata, nubeculosa, dumetorum, glabrata, immaculata, and a 

 pretty species allied to trimaculata, Tipula lutescens, gigantea, longicornis, lateralis, 

 vernalis, lunata, &c., and a number of interesting Trichoptera. The contents of 

 this box were much admired for the beauty of the specimens and the setting of the 

 Tipulas, and an interesting discussion ensued on the best way of capturing and set- 

 ting them. 



Several members remarked on the unusual abundance of Locusta migratoria (one 

 of which, taken at Warrington, was in Mr. Greening's box), observing that it had ap- 

 peared throughout Great Britain and Ireland this season. 



The President exhibited the following insects, captured by himself this season 

 Myrmedonia canaliculala, Antherophagus pallens, Ips quadripunctata, Macrocera 

 vittata, phalerata, fasciata, Chironomus virescens, Tipula lutescens, longicornis, 

 scurra, Asilus albiceps, Thereva bipunctata, Platypeza infumata, Sciomyza corregio- 

 lata, Osmylus chrysops, &c. 



The Secretary exhibited two specimens of Acontia luctuosa on behalf of Mr. Bat- 

 tersby, who had met with this species freely near Torqtiay ; also a box kindly fur- 

 nished by Mr. Brown, of Cambridge, containing Tortrix dumetana, Pionea margarita- 

 lis, and Polyommatus Arion, recently captured by himself; and a box containing 

 Mixodia Turionana, Laverna phragmatellus, and Nonagria concolor, which had been 

 presented to him by Mr. Doubleday. 



Mr. Gregson exhibited the larvae of twelve species of the genus Eupithecia upon 

 their food-plants, observing that nothing was easier to find in the larva state than this 

 hitherto much-neglected genus, and that now was the time to go beating for the tree, 

 hedge and shrub feeders, sweeping for the heath feeders, and hunting for those which 

 feed upon low plants, or upon plants which grow where beating and sweeping are im- 

 practicable, and for the seed feeders, some of which could not well be beaten out 

 or swept for advantageously. The principal species exhibited were Eupithecia saty- 

 rata, upon flowers of Scabiosa succisa, discovered by Messrs. Logan and Wilson, and 



