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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



Rhyncalus gracilus at Manchester. — On the ioth of March, 

 my son Joseph brought to me a piece of timber which had been a 

 portion of a manger, which he found on a dung heap at Greenheys. 

 It was evidently infested with insects, as the numerous burrows 

 testified which were visible on its surface ; on investigation, I found 

 about fifty of the above species in its interior, in various stages, viz. : 

 larvae, pupae, and perfect beetles. I have put a portion of the infested 

 timber in tin boxes in hopes of breeding this rare British species. — 

 Joseph Chappell, 29, Welbeck Street, Manchester. 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



August. 7th, 1889.— The Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A, F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The Rev. John Walley, of Wuhu, China, was elected a Fellow ; Professor Chas. 

 V. Riley, of Washington, United States, was elected an Honorary Fellow in place of 

 the late Dr. Signoret, of Paris ; and Colonel Swinhoe and the Rev. F. D. Morrice 

 were admitted into the Society. 



Mr. Walter F. Blandford exhibited a specimen of Cardiophoriis cinereus, Herbst, 

 taken at Tenby, and remarked that the species had rarely, if ever, previously been 

 found in the United Kingdom. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse said he believed that there 

 was a specimen in the collection of his late father and also another specimen in the 

 collection of the British Museum. 



Mr. Waterhouse stated that the British Museum had just received from the Rev. 

 Arthur Elwin, of Hangchow, China, a luminous larva about i£ inches long and 3^ 

 lines broad, which he believed to be one of the Lampyvida. 



Lord Walsingham exhibited specimens of Conchylis degreyana, M'Lach., bred from 

 seed-heads of Plantago lanceolata at Merton, Norfolk ; aiso a specimen of Tineida 

 allied to the genus Solenobia, probably belonging to Dissoctena, Staud., but differing 

 somewhat in the structure of the antenna?. Lord Walsingham remarked that the 

 specimen was taken by himself at Merton on the 31st July last, and that the species 

 was apparently undescribed. 



Mr. Meyer-Darcus exhibited a collection of Coleoptera, comprising specimens of 

 a species of Loethrus from Turkestan, Julodis globithorax ; Stev., from the Caucasus, 

 a new species of Julodis from Kurdistan ; Cardiaspis Mouhotii, Saunders, from Sikkim ; 

 Carabus Smaragdinus, Fisch., from Siberia ; Julodis am pliata, Mars., from Aintab, Asai 

 Minor, and a variety of the same from Kurdistan ; and Julodis luteogramma, Mars, 

 from Syria, and a variety of the same from Kurdistan. 



Mr. H. Goss read extracts from letters from Mr. R. W. Fereday, of New Zealand, 

 and Sir John Hall, K.C.M.G., relating to a number of Lepidoptera recently collected 



