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Pwdisca solandriana, July 18th. E}:>hip2nphora himaculana, August 15th. Ooccyx 
ustomaculana, Bicrorampha plumiagana, June 3rd. Grapholita uUcetana 0. Scopo- 
liana, Xylopoda Fahriciana, Euposcilia ciliella, beginning of June, end of June, and 
end of July, among heather. I sent a specimen of this to Mr. Barrett,* as E. 
siibrosea.na, as he had expressed a desire to see the heath-frequenting species re- 
corded under this name (vide E, M. M., voh v, p. 246). He, however, kindly told 
me that it was the above species. The few specimens I took vary much. The 
true subroseana does not appeal- to be a northern or heath-frequeutiug species. 
Argyrolcpia suhhaumanniana, Aphelia praiana. — F. Buchanan White, Perth, March, 
1869. 
Bullettino della Socictd Entomologica Italiana ; anno primo ; Firenze, 1869. 
We announced some time since that, through the exertions of Mr. A. H. Haliday, 
long resident at Lucca, combined with those of leading Italian Entomologists, an 
Entomological Society had been established in Italy ; and we recently had the 
pleasure of receiving the first part of their Bulletin, which is most creditable. It 
is occupied, as it should be, chiefly by articles on Italian insects, by various authors, 
among whom we see the well-known names of Rondani, Piccioli, and Ghiliani, with 
others not yet so familiar. A coloured plate is devoted to a Eymenopteron de- 
scribed by Piccioli as Astata Costw (is not this a ^ of A. oculata, Jurine? ). Pour 
parts, of 80 pages each, will be published annually. We have private information 
that the second will contain a paper by Mr. Haliday, on a new species of Cassida, 
collected by him in Sicily, which he proposes to name C. suceda, accompanied by 
figures of t he larva ; it fi-equents Suceda fruticosa. 
The establishment of this Society institutes a new era in Italian Entomology. 
Hitherto the numerous valuable memoirs by the workers in that, by nature, much- 
favoured land, have been almost useless to most students, through having been 
published in some one or other of the Transactions of the Academies devoted to 
general science, and which exist here in very few libraries ; the Bulletin of the new 
society will, on the contrary, gain a wide circulation. 
Mr. Wilson Saunders, of Hillfield, Reigate, has, with his usual generosity, 
undertaken to act as agent of the Society in England, and gentlemen desirous of 
becoming members should communicate with him, or with Mr. Haliday, Villa Pisani, 
Lucca. The annual subscription is ten shillings in England, for which the Bulletin 
will be forwarded free. 
Entomological Society of London ; l^.tli February, 1869. — H.W. Bates, Esq., 
F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 
Dr. Wynne Foot, of Dublin, was elected a Subscriber. 
Mr. Butler exhibited a living locust belonging to the genus ConocepTialus, ■which 
had been found in the beginning of the month, on board a vessel arrived from the 
West Coast of Africa. According to the captain's account, a swarm of these insects 
had alighted upon the vessel, and several had arrived alive in the Thames ; the 
specimen exhibited had not eaten anything since being in Mr. Butler's possession. 
Professor Westwood exhibited two Nycteribidce, from Ceylon, parasitic upon bats, 
a Strebla and a Kycteribia. These insects were prepared as microscopic objects, by 
first being squeezed between the loaves of a book, afterwards placed upon the slide, 
and hot canada-balsam poured upon them. 
* Mr. Barrett hns inndvertently stated in hi,s interesting notice of certain species of Evpcecilia, that 
I took tliis species near Kirkwall. It shuulil h:ive been near Dingwall. — F. B. W. 
