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THE ENTOMOLOGISTS WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
month, from eggs laid by specimens taken 
about tbe middle of May. — J. B. Craw- 
ford, Park House , Colham, near Bristol ; 
June 17. 
Exchange. — I shall be happy to ex- 
change Polyommatus Arion for any of 
the following: — 
Colias Hyale, 
Melitaea Cinxia, 
„ Athalia, 
Argynnis Lathonia. 
— W. H. Comyn, Waist ley Villa, Chel- 
tenham; June 16. 
Surplus Specimens. — Having the un- 
dermentioned in duplicate and not want- 
ing them myself, they may, although 
common, be acceptable to incipients, and 
J will give them away to any who may 
think it worth while to send for them. 
I put them in the order of the index to 
the ‘ Manual,’ viz. — Nos. 2, 3, 10, 13, 15, 
18, 21, 34, 35, 36, 69, 45, 46, 65, 66, 72, 
74, 78, 85, 87, 1 14, 135, 136, 137, 147, 
169, 171, 173, 179, 185, 189, 332, 337, 
413, 444. Besides these I have many 
Noetuce, Pyralides and Geometry, which 
it would take up too much space to men- 
tion. I have some in the larva, some in 
the pupa and some in the imago states. 
Persons writing for them must under- 
stand that they must free me of any 
postage charges. — J. S. Dkle, 126, Navy 
Row, Morrice Town, Devonport ; June 18. 
OXFORD UNIVERSITY ENTO- 
MOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
At the meeting of the Oxford University 
Entomological Society, held in the Christ- 
church Museum, on the 7th of June, 
J. 0. Westwood, Esq., M.A. (the Presi- 
dent), in the chair, after the reading and 
confirmation of the minutes of the pre- 
ceding meeting, Dr. Wallace presented 
a large box of British Lepidoptera to the 
Society. 
Six new members were elected, in- 
cluding one of the Fellows of St. John’s 
College. 
Mr. D. Timins exhibited two species 
of tbe genus Catocala (taken in North 
America), at present undetermined, and 
not in the Collection at the British Mu- 
seum ; also a species of Thecla, and two 
species of Anthrocera from the neigh- 
bourhood of Boulogne, the latter bred 
from the larvae. Mr. Timins also read 
some notes on the larvae of A. Loti and 
Filipendulce. 
The President continued his remarks 
on the characteristics of the Lepidoptera, 
and spoke of the great assistance which 
an examination of the veius of the wings 
of insects of that order was capable of 
affording in the difficult work of classifi- 
cation, and of the interest there is in 
tracing among the moths the modifica- 
tions of the veins which exist in butter- 
flies, which are generally taken as the 
type. He thought that Mr. Wilkinson, 
in his very excellent work on the Tortri- 
cina, had not caught the true relations 
between the veius of the wings of this 
family and those of other tribes. 
The Rev. H. A. Pickard then criticised 
an article in the ‘Intelligencer’ of the 
14th of May, 1859, upon the 1 Accentuated 
List,’ in which the author, though speak- 
ing favourably of it on the whole, ob- 
served, “We shall continue to talk of 
Cassi'ope, in spite of the instructions here 
given to pronounce it Cas-sio-pee, which 
is but one remove from the erroneous 
pronunciation we have often heard of 
Cas-si-upe ; ” and also that the names of 
several species had been omitted in the 
‘ Accentuated List.’ In answer to the 
first charge, Mr. Pickard referred the re- 
viewer to page 7 of the Preface, where it 
is expressly stated that no rule was laid 
down in the case of quadrisyllabic words 
of this nature, as scholars differ much iu 
opinion as to their pronunciation. As to 
the second charge, the omission of certain 
species, the reason of this was that the 
compilers of the ‘ Accentuated List ’ 
trusted perhaps too implicitly to a manu- 
script copy of Mr. Doubleday’s ‘List,’ 
