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of Cambridge, in the fens near that 
town. 
M hether these are also the characters 
of the insect bred by Herr Hofmann 
from the Hierochloe I have not heard. 
One point in the habits of the larv® 
oi Eximia and Schmidiella is interesting, 
— both these larvas have a trick of resting 
themselves just over a rib of the leaf, in 
the thiekness of which they are thus 
well concealed, for though the mine it- 
self is visible enough an inexperienced 
collector would infallibly pronounce it 
empty, from this astute policy of the 
larva. The grass-mining larva has not 
the same resource, and should therefore 
be far more easily found. 
Space will not permit me at present 
to refer to the exotic species of the 
genus, but I hope to revert to them on 
an early day. 
THE PROPOSAL FOR AN ENTOMO- 
LOGICAL SOCIETY AT ISLINGTON. 
To the Editor of the ‘Intelligencer.' 
Sir, — Either the entomologists of Is- 
lington are extremely apathetic or I 
failed to make myself intelligible, in the 
letter yon were so good as to insert in 
your number of the 8th instant ; for, as 
yet, I have but one enquiry resulting 
from it. 
May I beg the indulgence of a small 
space in your next to state that my object 
is to obtain the names of those gentlemen 
in this district who may be desirous of 
uniting to form a local Society, and then 
to call a meeting for the purpose of 
organizing it, and deciding upon the 
rules for working it. I have all the 
materials ready for submitting to a 
meeting, and, what is more, the oppor- 
tunity of obtaining, at a small cost, a 
room at a private house, used as a lecture- 
room, which I think would be much pre- 
ferable to meeting at a public-house. 
Hoping once more for your kind 
assistance in the matter, 
I am. Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
C. S. Mallett. 
5, Duncan Place, 
397, City Road, E.C.; NepL 14. 
ON RECORDING OBSERVATIONS. 
To the Editor of the ‘ Intelligencer,' 
Sir, — Will you permit me a short 
space in your columns for the purpose 
of calling the attention of entomologists 
to the importance of registering, in your 
journal or elsewhere, the effeets of this 
remarkable season upon the development 
of insects? The particular insects not 
observed, and the date of appearance of 
those whose pupa-life have been pro- 
longed would be interesting facts in refe- 
rence to different entomological localities. 
I have not, in this neighbourhood, 
seen a single specimen of Apatura Iris 
or of Limenitis Sibylla, nor — up to the 
date of this note — a single wasp. I 
have made particular enquiries at the 
shops and “ rock ” stalls in this town, 
and the answer has been “ No wasps.” 
Yours, &c., 
C. R. Bree, M.D. 
Colchester, 
September 15, 1860. 
British Hemiptera. — Errors in the 
new List. — In the ‘List of British 
Hemiptera,’ just published, Lygus uni- 
fasciatus (p. 48) is erroneously inserted 
