THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
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mon on heaths, flying’ in the sun- 
shine. 
Procris Statices, very common in 
flowery places during the last fort- 
night, flying in the sunshine. 
Euchelia Jacoboece, ditto. 
Liparis dispar. On the 28th ult. 
I captured a fine pair of this insect 
in Highgate Wood. 
Acidalia Remutata, very common 
in the woods about here. 
I have also taken a great quantity 
of common insects at the sallows ; 
among them I may mention, T. 
Munda, Gracilis , and Cruda. 
In March I bred a great number • 
of Smerinthus Populi ; Ocellahis and 
Ligustri have not yet made their ap- 
pearance. Two females of IT. Pro- 
gemmaria and one of P. Pilosaria I 
also bred — Samuel Davis, Holloway. 
Hemipteka. 
Captures in the South. — Penta- 
tonia punctata. I had one before 
from Devonshire, Captain Blomer. 
I took mine by sweeping heath. 
Henestaris lineola , Curtis. One on 
May 6, and two on May 8, by sweep- 
ing heath. 
Saida Saltatoria, in plenty on high 
and dry land ; I always previously 
took it on wet ground. — J. C. Dale. 
Diptera. 
Captures in the South. — I have 
done most in diptera, having taken 
Ephydra Spilota (figured by Cur- 
tis), new to me. 
Bibio leucopterus, three males and 
one female. Had frosts and cold 
winds not prevailed, no doubt we 
should have taken plenty. — J. C. 
Dale, Gian Wooton, Sherborne, Dor- 
set. 
MEETING’S OF SOCIETIES. 
Northern Entomological Society. 
The last meeting was held on 
Saturday, the 28th March, 1863, at 
the residence of Mr. E. Kenderdine, 
2, Abercrombie Place, Stretford 
New Road, Manchester, 
Mr. N. Greening, President, in the 
Chair. 
MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Mr. Amos Beardsley, P.L.S., 
P.G.S., Grange. 
Mr. Henry Evans, Darley Abbey, 
near Derby. 
Mr. P. M. Webb, Claughton, near 
Birkenhead. 
Mr. T, Blackburn, Bowdon, 
Cheshire. 
Mr. W. Houghton, Warrington. 
The President read his inaugural 
address. 
EXHIBITIONS. 
Mr. Stephenson — C. fraxini, C. 
Celerio-, hybrids between S. populi 
and S. ocellatus. Specimens of a 
brood of A. betularia, reared on oak. 
The eggs were obtained from a cap- 
tured female. About forty speci- 
mens emerged nearly white, and 
about an equal number quite black. 
An unnamed moth, probably a new 
species. 
