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Entomological Society. He felt tliat 
this was a great loss to the Natural 
History of this country. 
Rare Lepidoptera. — Mr. Shepherd 
exhibited specimens of Spilodes Silacea- 
lis and Laphygma exigua, taken by Mr. 
A. Wallace in the Isle of Wight. Mr. 
Stevens observed he had lately seen a 
tine specimen of the last-named insect, 
taken by Mr. H. Cooke. (See ‘ Intelli- 
gencer,’ p. 173.) 
Mr. Douglas exhibited a specimen of 
Depressaria Libanotidella, taken by Mr. 
Turner at Haven, in Sussex. 
Mr. Dutton exhibited some insects 
taken a mouth ago in the Isle of Wight, 
and amongst them was a specimen of 
Heliothis armigera. 
Rake Coleopteka.— Mr. Janson ex- 
hibited the following rarities: — Dinarda 
Maerkelii, Dendrophilus pygnueus, Dor- 
catoma rubens, and Criophilus bmodulus ; 
the last-named he had obtained from 
bark of aspen. 
Madeiran Insects. — Mr. Stevens 
exhibited some specimens he had lately 
bred from pupae imported from Madeira. 
Mr. Hunter suggested that it was not 
improbable that as the Eriopus La- 
ireillei had been found outside his breed- 
ing-cage, that he had no recollection of 
having found any such larva as that of 
Latreillei, that Mr. Stevens bad been 
importing ferns from Madeira which 
were in the same house with his (Mr. 
Hunter’s) breeding-cage, it might after 
all be no new British Noctua. 
This suggestion was thought a very 
probable solution of a difficulty. 
Coccus on Luzula. — Mr. Douglas 
exhibited some white woolly-like sub- 
stances, the covering of a Coccus, found 
on Luzula by Mr. Newman at Darenth 
Wood. 
A paper by Mr. Bales was then read : 
‘ Description of a New Species of the 
Geodephaga Myrmicella Lacordairci,’ 
collected by his brother at Ega, on the 
Upper Amazons. 
MISCELLANEA. 
Be Sure and Return your Corres- 
pondent’s Boxes. 
We are requested to caution collectors 
not to keep the boxes sent them by post. 
One party complains that some of his 
have been kept for six weeks ; many a 
month. This ought not to be. We give 
this advice quite disinterestedly, because 
we are ourselves very bad hands at re- 
turning boxes : our readers, however, 
should do as we say, not as ive do. We 
knew a gentleman who used to write on 
each of his boxes, “ This box was stolen 
from J. C. Dale, Esq.” And people 
were then ashamed to keep them. 
Educational Influence of the 
Study of Entomology. 
I am in a sad fix about the moths. 
The Greek plays are child’s play in com- 
parison ; but I suppose patience and per- 
severance will succeed. 
I have about four hundred specimens ; 
but as to naming them, that is quite out 
of the question. However, I have 
bungled out a few, such as the Hawks, 
Tigers, Magpies, Footmen, &c., &c. ; 
but when I shall arrange what I have 
caught is more than I can imagine. I 
looked into the Linnaian arrangement ; 
I might as well have looked into Pliny, 
or tried to study Botany in the Georgies. 
However, there is comfort in all things, 
if we know how to extract it: the study 
of these moths is not so dull and dry in 
one’s old age as learning the Greek 
alphabet like the stern Cato did. I 
never was more amused in my life, or 
more humbled at my own ignorance. 
