The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (Volume 25) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1877 Excerpt: ... was certainly not A. Svlzeri, but that he considered it to be A. Heckii (Cambridge), which would probably be found to be the same as A. piceus (Thorell), though he was not certain, as the only female which he bad of that species was too much damaged to admit of any satisfactory comparison The type of A. Beckii was an adult male given to him by the late Richard Beck, who was uncertain of the locality, though Mr. Cambridge appeared to think it probable that he had got it from Hampstead, as he often collected there. The example sent to him by Mr. Enock was different from the Isle of Wight species, of which he had several female specimens, but no males, though he believed them to be A. Sulzeri. He would be very glad if collectors in the Hampstead locality would look out for the males in the autumn and winter, as if he could obtain that sex it would enable him to put the question, as to species, at rest. Mr. Enock exhibited a bottle containing a great number of larvse of Cossus ligniperda, which he had found in a portion of a small willow. He had taken fifty-six larvae out of a piece of wood four feet long. Mr. Dunning again directed the attention of members to-the exhibition by Mr. Jenner Weir, at the last meeting, of a female specimen of Cicada montana, which was reported to have been distinctly heard to stridulate, notwithstanding that the insect was a female, and also that the species was one of which even the males were not previously known to stridulate. Mr. Weir stated that since the last meeting he had again been to the New Forest, and had seen, in the possession of Mr. James Gulliver, of Ramnor, near Brockenhurst, two specimens of Cicada montana, and he was assured by Mr. Gulliver that the stridulation of the insect was well known to him, and that he wa...