830 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, August 25, 185?. 
CLEMATIS TUBULOSA. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S 
MEETING. 
Received from Dr. Fischer in 1810. 
This is the most remarkable Clematis 
in our gardens. It forms a branching, 
upright, herbaceous plant, with stiff, an¬ 
gular, purple, downy stems, and great, 
smooth, shining, ternate leaves, of a pale 
bright green, the larger leaflets of which 
are three inches long and two inches and 
a half broad, bordered by coarse mucro- 
nate serratures. The flowers appear in 
sessile corymbs in the axils of the leaves, 
on stalks about one inch and a half long ; 
they are about an inch long when full 
blown, of an intense blue, and extremely 
handsome. 
So different is this plant in appearance 
from a Clematis, that the Russian botanist 
who first described it was in doubt whether 
it belonged to the genus; it does not, 
however, differ generically, nor do the 
flowers appear to be unisexual, as he de¬ 
scribes them. It was originally found in 
the north of China by Porphyrius Kiri- 
low, by whom its seeds must have been 
communicated to the Botanical Garden of 
St. Petersburgh. 
This fine plant succeeds freely in any 
good garden soil, but cannot be considered 
anything more than herbaceous, for it 
retains little of the previous year’s growth. 
It suffered much from cold during last 
winter, and probably will not be more than 
half hardy. It is easily increased by cut¬ 
tings of the young wood, and is a fine, 
showy, herbaceous plant, flowering in 
August and September. — ( Horticultural 
Society's Journal.') 
As usual at this period of the year, the 
attendance at the August Meeting of the 
Entomological Society on the 3rd instant 
Avas not so numerous as ordinarily. The 
chair was taken by H. T. Stainton, Esq., 
Vice-President, in the absence of the 
President. 
Mr. Foxcroft sent for exhibition several 
rare and interesting insects recently cap¬ 
tured in Scotland, with notes on the 
economy of some of them, and illustra¬ 
tions of their habits, amongst which Avere 
the transformations of the rare Dipterous 
genus, Xylophagus —interesting from the structure of its 
antennse, as forming the connecting link betAveen the multi- 
articulate antennae of the Tipulae and their allies, and the 
three-articulate, aristate antennae of the Muscidoe, &c. He 
also sent the nest of the pupae of the rare Beetle, Bhagium 
indagator. 
Mr. Waring exhibited a number of rare Lepidoptera 
recently taken on the south coast near Deal by Mr. 
Bouchard, including Trochilium clirysidiforme , Pione palealis, 
P. margaritalis, Melia bipun data, and also Hemilhea smarag- 
daria , taken near Southend. 
Mr. Waterhouse read a memoir on the British species of 
the family of Rove Beetles (Aleocharidce). He had care¬ 
fully examined the Kirbian and Stephensian types, and had 
collated them with a collection of seventy species recently 
forwarded to Dr. Kraatz, the German monographer of the 
family. By this means he hoped to arrive at uniformity in 
their nomenclature. 
Mr. Pascoe read a paper containing descriptions of new 
species of Longicorn Beetles lately sent from Macassar and 
Celebes by Mr. Wallace. All these species, with one excep¬ 
tion, Avere of Indian forms, which was an interesting feature j 
in entomological geography, the sole exception belonging 
to a form peculiar to the eastern islands. 
Mr. Stainton mentioned a curious circumstance in the 
economy of the Hive Bee, a piece of comb having been 
found affixed to the branch of a tree at some distance from ^ 
the ground, having a little honey in some of the cells, 
although unprotected by any outer covering; and a smaller 
piece of similar comb was found on the ground beneath 
the tree. Mr. Westwood said that it was evident that 
these pieces of comb had been constructed by a swarm of 
bees which had settled on the branch in very hot weather, 
when the deposition of wax goes on very rapidly, comb 
often being formed by bees when clustered outside a hive. 
Mr. Curtis has figured some pieces of honey-comb in 
his “ British Entomology ” Avhich had also been found j 
attached to the branches of a tree, and Avhich were considered 
by that Avriter as a unique instance of such a habit. 
Mr. Westwood exhibited specimens of the Elephant Fly 
of Ceylon, a Dipterous insect, belonging to the genus Pau- 
gonia and family Tabanidse, and Avhich has the power of 
