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Brazilian insects. — :SIr, Heinrich Barmeister, son of the well-known author of 
the " Handbuch," who has resided twelve years in Brazil, intends to emulate the 
example of Messrs. Bates and Wallace, by collecting in Brazil, chiefly in the 
province of Espirito Santo, with visits to other parts of the South American 
Continent. Mr. Burmeister has already devoted all his spare time to the breeding 
of Lepidoptera, and has thus accumulated a mass of facts of the greatest importance 
with regard to the natural position of many genera. 
The Birch-wood Dinner.— The annual dinner of the Entomological Club will be 
held, as usual, at " The Bull," at Birch-wood Comer, on Friday, the 3rd of July. 
Osbert Salvin, Esq., will preside. 
The late Mr. Desvignes' Collection of Ichneumonidce. — We have great satisfaction 
in stating that this important Collection has been purchased by the Trustees of the 
British Museum. 
Entouological Society of London, 1st June, 1868. H. W. Bates, Esq., F.Z.S., 
President, in the Chair, 
G. P. Shearwood, Esq., of Stockwell, and II Cavaliere Francfort, of Pallanza, 
Lago ISIaggiore, were elected Members. 
Mr. Jenner Weir called attention to a Report of a Meeting of the Scientific 
Committee of the Eoyal Honicultm-al Society, in which were some rather remark- 
able misapprehensions of the habits of the larva of Coleophora hemerobiella. It was 
explained that none of the Entomologists who are Members of that Committee 
were present at the Meeting in question. 
Mi-. F. L. Keays exhibited specimens of Psyche crassiorella from Hornsey, and 
stated that the oaks were there much disfigured by the curled leaves in which 
Attelahus curculionides deposits its egg. 
The Hon. T. De Grey exhibited pupae of Hypercallia Christiernana ; the lai-vae 
he had found near the end of May feeding on Polygala vulgaris near Shoreham, in 
Kent. Mr. McLachlan mentioned that he had recently found the larvae in the 
same locality. 
Mr. A. G. Butler exhibited varieties of Netneohiv.s Liicina and of Anthocaris 
cardamines fi-om Heme Bay ; the latter were remarkable for the gi-eat size of the 
central black spot of the anterior wings ; the posterior pair also showing an indica- 
tion of this spot. 
Mr. H. Burmeister (son of Professor Bui-meister) , who was pi-esent as a visitor, 
exhibited many drawings of the transformations of South American butterflies, 
together vrith. the pupa-skins and perfect insects of some of them. He mentioned 
that he had bred a species of Castnia, which he exhibited, from a larva feeding in 
the interior of the pseudo-bulbs of Orchidacece. 
Mr. Butler mentioned that Otiorhynchu-s picipes had been causing great damage 
to roses near Manchester, by eating off" the young shoots. 
Professor Westwood made some remarks on the habits of Ateuchus sacer, as 
observed by him at Cannes. 
Mr. McLachlan exhibited larvae of a caddis-fly which he attributed to Enoicyla 
piisiUa of Burmeister, the only authenticated instance of one of these insects living 
out of the water in the larval condition. These had been sent to him by Mr. J. E. 
Fletcher, of Worcester, who found them at the roots of wUlow-trees. 
Mr. Frederick Bates communicated " Descriptions of Xew Genera and Species 
of Hcteromera," from Australia. 
