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few friends and fellow Naturalists. His lofty religious and moral aims, seconded by 
a peculiar ability for educational purposes, marked him, from early youth, as one 
who would take foremost rank in that scholastic army which in Scotland especially 
is recruited from men with the soundest brains and strongest principles. How well 
he fulfilled that promise, is recorded in the Annals of the Glasgow Normal Seminary, 
the Free Church Training Schools, and Blair House Academy, Polmont, in all of 
which his work, for nearly 50 years, was marked by earnest zeal and large-hearted 
sympathy. Mr. Hislop was born at Dunse in 1815 ; his eldest brother, the Rev. 
Alexander Hislop, is known in Scotland as a writer on religious subjects ; and 
another brother, the late Rev. Stephen Hislop, of Nagpore, contributed many papers 
to our knowledge of the Geology of Central India. 
Entomological Society of London. — July 7lh, 1880. J. W. Dunning, 
Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Douglas sent for exhibition a ? example (possibly hibernated) of Noctua 
c-nigrum, captured on the 27tli June. 
Mr. Phipson exhibited a very remarkable variety of Vanessa cardui, taken last 
year near Basingstoke. 
Mr. Billups exhibited a dead larva of Plusia chrysitis which had been infested 
by 120 examples of a parasitic Hymenopterous insect. 
Mr. Distant exhibited a very fine example of the so-called vegetable-caterpillar 
of New Zealand (larva of Hepialus virescens with the fructification of Sphceria 
Roberts ij. 
Mr. McLachlan exhibited sugar-cane from Queensland much damaged by the 
larva of a Lepidopterous insect, apparently allied to that (or those) from Brazil, the 
West Indies, Mauritius, &c., noticed by Fabricius, Guilding, and Westwood, and 
also to that recently exhibited by Miss Ormerod from British Guiana. 
Mr. W. F. Kirby called attention to the description and figure of Pyralis 
saccharalis, F., published in the Skrif. af Naturh. Selskabet in 1794, and to Guenee’s 
long account in Maillard’s “Notes sur File de Reunion,” in which “Borer” was 
used as a generic term. 
Mr. Distant said the “ borer” of Madras was not the same as that described by 
Guilding. 
Miss Ormerod read “Additional Notes on Cane-Borers,” with especial reference 
to Tomarus bituber culatus, Sphenophorus sacchari, and Rhyncophorus palmarum, in 
concluding which she alluded to more recent reports on the Lepidopterous borer of 
the Mauritius, and offered suggestions for combating the ravages of the insect 
enemies of the sugar cane. 
Mr. Roland Trimen sent notes on an observation of Colonel Bowker, of Natal, 
on a butterfly ( Salamis anacardii, L., 3 ) in copula with a moth ( Aphelia Apollinaris, 
Bdv., ? ), the two insects much resembling each other. Also “ Notes on a supposed 
? of Dorylus helvolus, L.,” dug out from the nest of a small red ant, near Cape 
Town. 
Mr. Sidney Churchill, of Teheran, communicated lengthy “Notes on the habits 
of Argas persicus, and the effects of its bite.” 
