Avicula longispinosa— a very rare shell in this locality — and 
Ostrea liassica, 
On the return to the New Passage, that characteristic 
phenomenon of tidal rivers possessing a rapid down stream, 
the bore, or aeger, was well seen, like a perpendicular wall 
of water about three feet high, advancing up the river. At 
the New Passage Hotel a most comfortable dinner awaited 
the party, served up in capital style, and wbf?n they had 
done justice to it, the members returned to Bristol by the 
6.45 p.m. train. 
We understand that the Council of the Society are endea- 
vouring to form Geological, Botanical, and Chemical sections, 
, for the special advancement and study of these branches of 
science, and we are also informed that on account of the 
meeting of the British Association at Bath, and the visit of 
its members to Bristol in the month of September (pre- 
liminary arrangements for which will, be hear, be made at a 
meeting at the Council-house next Monday), the Council 
have determined that the first meeting of the session shall 
I take place on the first Thursday in October, 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
July 12th. — Mr. Stephen Barton, President, in the chair. 
The President exhibited larva and imagoof Herraerius Impar, 
Newn.; this fine Australian longicorne he obtained by felling 
an Eucolyptus raannifera, in the Boninyong district. In 
reply to a question from Mr. G. Harding, Mr. Barton stated 
that the Australian aborigines would eat any large larva or 
moth freely, but they were especially fond of the larvae of 
the Hepialidae, or Ghost-moth family. 
Mr. John Bolt exhibited a series of Lycaena agestis, W.V., 
and its varieties, Idas, Haw., Artaxer'xes, Fab., Salmaces, 
Steph., male and female, and an undescribed variety, the 
upper side of which agreed with the type of the species, but 
the under side resembled Artaxerxes, Fab. 
Mr. J. Barber exhibited ova, larva, pupa, and imago of 
Meliphora alveariella, Gn., and a variety of Lycaena agestis, 
W.V. 
Mr. G. Harding exhibited a nest of Vespa Norwegica, 
Fab,, which had been built in a gooseberry bush in his 
garden at Stapleton ; this species is somewhat rare in the 
south and west of England. Mr. E. C. Reed stated he had 
seen a nest of the same species at Over, this summer. 
Mr. Evan John exhibited Lucania putrescens, captured at 
the Mumbles, and Xylina conformis, taken in Wales. 
The secretary, Mr. Reed, exhibited a quantity of Ento- 
mological dissections and preparations under the microscope, 
consisting of parts of the moutb, antennjB, eyes, &c. 
August 9th.— Mr. Stephen Barton, President, in the chair. 
Mr. F.V. Jacques exhibited a curious variety of Lamia textor, 
Lin., in which the basal joint of the left antenna was bifid, 
and had evidently borne two antennae upon it, one having 
been broken off. 
Mr. A. E. Hudd exhibited some remarkable varieties of 
Satyrus byperanthus, Lin., which were deficient in the normal 
white rings upon the under side of the fore wings. 
The President exhibited many undescribed species of 
Australian Geodephaga ; among them were the genera Clivina, 
Dicrochile, Staropus, &c. 
The Secretary exhibited the new Eupathecia lariciata, and 
two species of Corixa from Scotland, apparently new, 
I WM, LANT CARPENTER, 
1 Honorary Reporting Secretary. 
