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Coref/iia ferriigata^ C. i/nidentata, Scotosia certata^ Cida?ia sidemta, 
C. silaceata^ C, prunata^ C, dofata, Eubolia bipunctaria and Anaitis 
plagiata. This list omits the very common insects, and gives a very 
fair idea of the Macro-lepidoptera to be found here. Though these 
are no great rarities, yet several of them are good insects. Sidmouth 
is, I think, a good centre for entomology, and all the woods being open 
to the public, and there being much moorland, render it a pleasant 
place for entomologists. In conclusion, I should be very glad to give 
any help in my power to any one on a visit to the neighbourhood. — W. 
R. S. Majendie, Hill’s Cottage, Sidmouth. 
Newspaper Entomology. — “A terrible story comes from South 
Algeria. M, Kunckel d’Herculais, an ardent votary of natural history, 
some time since went to that country to experiment on the phenomena 
of the breeding of locusts and their periodical and disastrous flights 
over the fertile regions of North Africa. Yesterday he had been engaged 
from an early hour in the morning exploring a region where millions 
of locusts’ eggs were reported to have been laid. Towards eleven a.m., 
overpowered by the suffocating heat, he lay down in the shade of a 
few shrubs. He fell asleep, and a few hours later his corpse was found 
under a heap of these loathsome insects. From the examination of 
the body it is inferred that myriads of locusts had settled on him as 
he endeavoured to obtain his midday siesta, that he crushed many 
thousands of them, and attempted to scare them away by firing the 
bushes in the shadow of which he had taken rest, but that the 
swarms of locusts gradually suffocated him. This is the first authen- 
ticated case of such a death, and it has caused a thrill of horror in 
Paris, where this martyr to Science was well known.” — Standard^ 
May ip/Zz, i8gi. 
Another item is as follows A young man camping in the Sierras 
discovered and captured a butterfly of an unknown species. He sent 
it to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, and received for it a 
cheque for three hundred and eight pounds, with the request to make 
careful search for other moths of the same kind. It was an individual 
of a fossil species supposed to be extinct, and great was the excite- 
ment among the scientists at the discovery that one of the race had 
been recently alive. Although diligent search has been made by men 
paid for the service, no other specimen has been found .” — ]. W. Tutt. 
Stauropus fact. — I took one specimen of S.fagt while collecting at 
West Wickham on June 13th. but unfortunately the left upper wing was 
not properly developed. — W. Bloomfield, 14, Canterbury Road. — 
July 6 i/i, 1891. 
OCIETIES. 
Entomological Society of London.— yz/Zj/ 1st, 1891. — Mr. Jacoby 
exhibited a .specimen of a species of Coleoptera belonging to the family 
Galerucidce, with the maxillary palpi extraordinarily developed. Canon 
Fowler, on behalf of Mr. Wroughton, Conservator of Forests, Poona, 
exhibited specimens of a bug imitating an ant, Polyrachis spiniger, and 
of a spider imitating a species of Mutilla, and read the following notes : — 
“ I have taken a good many specimens of a bug which has achieved a 
