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so much here on different foods, I have never seen any English specimens like 

 the Belgium, French, and German specimens I have seen ; true odd ones have 

 approached ours, just as some Erench or Germen men are somewhat like 

 English men, but he is a dull dog who can't see a foreign man is not English, 

 or an English insect is not like a foreign one. There is a mealy whiteness 

 about foreign anachoreata, just like the mealy whiteness on foreign Ilici- 

 fotia), which I have never seen on English specimens anchoreata, or upon 

 English fed and bred Ilicifolia. 



To sum up, then, I think we may fairly aquit the dealers as dealers of im- 

 porting such valueless species as L. dispar and C. anachoreata. If any 

 importation of these species is being done, I think it must be ascribed 

 exclusively to the amateur dealers. In any case, such notes as Mr. Tutt's, 

 referred to above, are invaluable, as they show that the eye of the public is 

 open, and so tend to check the practice referred to In the old northern 

 cabinets are full sets of purely British specimens of both these species. There 

 is no doubt, we are more particular as to the nativity of our specimens in the 

 north than some of the London insect collectors are. Nevertheless, a local 

 collector being in Belgium to see his father some years ago, brought some 

 dispar and other British species here, and bred them for exchanging with, but 

 he could not get his neighbours to look at them, other persons being on the 

 continent have doubtless done likewise, hence the necessity for keeping a 

 close watch on such practices. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



October 5, 1887.— Dr. Sharp, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Jacoby exhibited a specimen of Aphthonoides Beccarii, Jac , a species 

 of Haltica having a long spine on the posterior femora. He also exhibited a 

 specimen of Bhagiosoma madagascariensis, and remarked that it had the 

 appearance of a Longicorn. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a very dark specimen of Crambns perlellm from the 

 Hebrides, which its captor supposed to be a new species. 



Mr. Porritt remarked that this brown form of Crambus perlellm occurred 

 at Hartlepool with the ordinary typical form of the species, and was there 

 regarded as only a variety of it. 



Mr. Slater exhibited a specimen of Gonepteryx Cleopatra, which was stated 

 to have been taken in the North of Scotland. 



Mr. Jenner Weir remarked that although the genus Bhamnus — to which 



