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Phytsecia cylindrica is found on hazel in Copenhagen fields, Eipley, 

 Hertford, Cambridge, Whittlesea Mere. 



Rhagium iDquisitor is very abundant on the flowers of mountain 

 ash. The large white larva, with a reddish brown head, is often found eat- 

 ing galleries, under bark of fir trees, oak, alder, &c. It is a very destructive 

 insect, and generally distributed. 



(To be continued,.) 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



August 3, 1887. — Dr. Sharp, President, in the chair. 



Mr. John Witherington Peers, M.A., of Wendover, near Tring; and Mr. 

 K. G. Lynam, of the North Staffordshire Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent, were 

 elected Eellows of the Society. 



Jonkheer May, the Dutch Consul -General, exhibited a pupa and two 

 imagines of Cecidomyia destructor (Hessian Fly), which had been submitted 

 to him for exhibition by the Agricultural Department. 



Mr. W. White exhibited, and made remarks on, a specimen of Philam- 

 pelus satellitia, Linn, from Florida, with supposed fungoid excrescences from 

 the eyes. Mr. Stainton said he was of opinion that the supposed fungoid 

 growth might be the pollinia of an Orchis. Mr. Poulton expressed a similar 

 opinion, and the discussion was continued by Mr. Pascoe, Dr. Sharp, and 

 others. 



Mr. White also exhibited a specimen of Catephia alchymista, bred from a 

 pupa collected by Mr. Ealfe last autumn on the South coast. 



Mr. M'Lachlan sent for exhibition a number of oak-leaves infested by 

 Phylloxera punctata^ Lichtenstein, which he had received from Dr. Maxwell 

 Masters, F.E.S. 



Mr. Champion exhibited two rare species of Curculionidce from the Isle of 

 Wight, viz., one specimen of Baridius analis, and a series of Caihormiocerus 

 socius. He remarked that C. maritimus, Eye, had been placed in recent 

 European Catalogues as a synonym of the last-named species, but that this 

 was an error. He also exhibited a series of Cicindela germanica, from Black- 

 gang, Isle of Wight. 



Mons. Alfred Wailly exhibited, and made remarks on, a number of living 

 larvae of Anthercea pernyi, A. mylitta, Telea polyphemus, Platysamia cecropia, 

 Actias luna ) Attacus cyntkia, Callosamia promethea, and other silk-producing 



