THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
175 
Mr. E. Armitage then read a 
paper on ‘ The Diptera for which 
the Society passed a vote of thanks. 
Mr. T. Blackburn read a paper on 
“ The tarsal system of classifying 
the Coleoptera” for which thanks 
were returned. 
Mr. J. B. Blackburn, who was in 
Bowdon on a visit from London, ex- 
hibited a box of insects captured by 
him in the London district, and in- 
cluding the following among others, 
L. Helvola, D. Pinastri, A. Flexula, 
E. Coronata. 
Mr. E.M. Geldart, exhibited a box 
of Diptera, and one of Hemiptera, 
the latter containing a species of 
Gerris, which he could not identify 
satisfactorily, but believed to be 
closely allied to G. pallidum. 
Mr. T. Blackburn, exhibited a box 
of Coleoptera, containing about a 
hundred species, that he had captured 
in ftie neighbourhood of Bowdon, 
since the last meeting. Among them 
were specimens of Amara fulva, 
which he did not previously know 
as occurring in the neighbourhood at 
all, — also a fine series of Rhinosimus 
ruficollis. 
At the close of the proceedings 
Mr. T. Blackburn invited the 
Society to hold their next meeting at 
his residence, and with thanks to 
Mr. Geldart for his entertainmmit, 
the meeting closed. 
EXCnAiGE. 
Duplicates from the Isle of White — 
Having been, last summer in the Isle 
of Wight, I have the following dupli- 
cates : 
A. Galathea 5 pair. 
P. Cory don 2 “ 
C. Car did 2 “ 
P. Agestis 3 “ 
IT. Miniata. 2 “ 
All the above are perfect, and I shall 
be glad to exchange them for the 
following : 
L. Sinapis. 
E. Plandina. 
P. Artaxerxes. 
C. Porcellus. 
N. Plantaginis. 
I wil exchange Agestis only for the 
following : 
A. Euphrosyne. 
N. Lucina. 
T. Ruhi. 
Correspondents will please write 
before sending insects. — C. E. Has- 
kins, Cromwell Rectory , Newark, 
Notts. 
ERRATA. 
“Weekly Entomologist,” No. 21. 
p. 166. Lines 8 & 9. For “captured 
in Surrey ” read “ obtained in Mid- 
dlesex.” 
IVotiee to Correspondents. 
One in a fog. — We cannot pub- 
lish. your communication anony- 
mously. 
We are again compelled to reserve 
some interesting communications for 
next week. 
