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opinion that it might possibly turn out to be Epitrix Fuscata, Duv., a species 

 which had been described from Cuba. 



The Rev. H. S. Gorham exhibited a collection of beetles lately captured 

 by him in Brittany, including Biachromus germdnus, L., Onthophagus taurus, 

 L., Rider si?iuatus, 111., and other species which are exceedingly rare, or 

 altogether wanting in Britain, and yet occur very commonly in the North of 

 Trance. 



Mr. Enock exhibited specimens of the Kessian Ely bred by himself, mounted 

 for the microscope. 



Mr. White exhibited living larvae of Endromis versicolora, from near Bristol, 

 and remarked that when quite young they are nearly black, owing to being 

 very thickly spotted with that colour ; the body-colour is green, and after two 

 or three changes of skin the spots disappear. Mr. White also exhibited two 

 preserved larva of Phorodesma smaragdaria, which he had recently taken, and 

 made some remarks concerning the so-called " case " which this insect is 

 said to construct from the leaves of its food-plant, Artemisia maritima. This 

 he did not consider to be really the case, but he had discovered that the larva 

 possessed on its segments certain secretory glands, at the apex of each of 

 which there is a bristly hair ; this appears to retain pieces of plant, which are 

 probably fixed firmly afterwards by means of the secreted fluid, These pieces 

 are very irregularly distributed, and their purpose does not seem quite evident. 



Mr. Lewis exhibited about three hundred specimens of the genera Hetcerius, 

 Er., and Eretmotus, Mars. The most remarkable of these was Hetcerius 

 acutangulus, Lewis, discovered last year by Mr. .T. J. Walker near Tangier, 

 and were recently taken by him at S. Roche, in Spain. The names of the other 

 species exhibited are : — Hetcerius Bedeli, Lewis, H. punctulatus, Lucas, 

 H. cosmosettus, Eairmaire, H. pluristriatus, Eairmaire, H. settdotus, Reitter, 

 Eretmotus sociator, Eairmaire, from Algeria. Hetcerius acutangulus, Lewis, 



H. arachnoides, Eairmaire, H. , n. sp.. Eretmotus tangerianus, Marseul, 



from Morocco. Hetcerius hispanicus, Rosenb., H. marseuli, Brisont, Eretmo- 

 tus ibericus, Brisont, from Spain, Hetcerius ferrugineus } Oliv., from France. — 

 W. W. Eowler, Hon. Sec. 



CITY OF LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY. 



The meeting of June 7th was largely attended, on account of Mr. J. A. 

 Clark's paper on " Cossus ligniperda," which in no way disappointed those 

 who had come to hear it. Mr. Clark, commencing with the ova, gave a 

 most exhaustive account of the very wonderful economy of this destructive 

 species, tracing every stage and illustrating every point either by living sped- 



