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birches; in the woods at Rannoch the 
little creeper was always busily employed 
running up and down the trees looking 
for insects, and when the creeper came to 
so large an insect as a nubeculosa, it ap- 
peared to be rather frightened, flapping 
its wings and giving a sort of scream. 
Mr. Foxcroftthen made a noise by beating 
the tree with a long stick, and the bird 
flew away, and then Mr. Foxeroft pro- 
ceeded to climb the tree in search of the 
Petasia; by this means he had already 
collected nearly one for each of his sub- 
scribers. On one occasion, after climbing 
a birch tree to a height of 40 feet, be 
fouud it a false alarm, as the insect which 
had attracted the attention of the bird 
was only Cernpacha Jiavicornis ! 
Ai.eucis pictaria. — Mr. S. Stevens 
exhibited a very fine specimen of this 
insect he bad taken at Dartford Heath. 
H etjEKios quadbatus. — Mr. Janson 
exhibited three specimens of this, a new 
British beetle ; he bad taken them in 
ants’ nests at Hampstead ; the first a few 
years ago in a nest of Formica Jlava, the 
other two on the preceding day in a nest 
of F.fusca. Mr. Janson said his mode 
of proceeding was not to disturb the ants 
at all, but to place large stones in the 
vicinity of their nests, and to examine 
these from time to time. 
Hemerobius variegatus. — Mr. New- 
man sent for exhibition a specimen of 
this insect, bred by Mr. Dorville from a 
cocoon formed within the pupa-skin of an 
Abraxas grossulariata. 
Elachista TjENIatella. — Mr. Stain- 
ton exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Scott, the 
specimen the latter gentleman had bred 
(see ‘Intelligencer,’ No. 5, p. 37) of this 
new British species. 
Coleophoka Woe KEEI. LA. — Mr. Bond 
exhibited specimens of the larva of this 
hitherto rare species, feeding on Betonica 
officinalis , found in a wood near Canter- 
bury. 
Drawings of Lepidoptebous LaRVjE. 
— Captain Cox exhibited a line series of 
drawings of larva), executed by himself 
and Mrs. Cox, and said that, when they 
should have figured a considerable num- 
ber, he had eventually in view their pub- 
lication. As good trustworthy figures of 
our larvae are much wanted, this an- 
nouncement caused much gratification 
to the Members present. 
The following papers were then read : 
— “ Description of a Species of A ccrodes 
from Borneo,” by Mr. Adam White ; 
“ Account of a Spider observed on the 
Baobab tree by Dr. Reichardt,” trans- 
lated from Guerin-Meneville’s * Revue 
Zoologique,’ by Mr. J. W. Douglas; and 
Mr. Smith read a paper “On the Diffi- 
culties attending the Discrimination of 
the Species of the Genus St plops : ” in 
this paper Mr. Smith remarked that the 
appearance of a male Stylops was so 
altered by its shrivelling after death, that 
a cabinet specimen bore about as much 
resemblance to a living insect as a dried 
mummy did to a well-fed, plump Egyp- 
tian, and hence most of the published 
figures were not representations of the 
insects intended, but miserable carica- 
tures. Mr. Smith then called attention 
to four different species (as they had been 
called) of Stylops , but which he was in- 
clined to think were identical, and begged 
that any one meeting with a Stylops in 
future would at once make an accurate 
drawing of the living insect, in order to 
ascertain whether we really had more 
than one species of Stylops in this 
country. 
MISCELLANEA. 
Ephestia Ficella petitions to be 
NATURALIZED. 
To the Right Honourable Corporation 
of the Entomologists of Great Britain : 
The petition of Ephestia Ficella 
Humbly sheweth — 
That having been for many years 
an inhabitant of Great Britain, and being 
