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Proceedings, and it must be liiglily gratifying to tlie members to 

 find one of their correspondents selected to fill such an eminent 

 position. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr Thomas Chapman exhibited specimens of several rare 

 Lepidoptera from north-east Australia, on which he made the 

 following remarks : — Papilio Ulysses, the most brilliant of these, has 

 been long known, and was first named by Linnaeus. Most of the 

 specimens in European collections have been sent from Amboyna 

 by the Dutch, but that now shown was taken at Cape York, the 

 most northern part of Queensland, The several sj)ecimens of 

 Mynes Geoffroyi (which is very rare) and Delias mysus show sexual 

 differences, and neither of them has been received before. Both 

 species are from North Queensland. Heteronympha niirifica, of 

 which only one specimen has been received, is the rarest species of 

 all. It was first mentioned in the " Annals of Natural History " 

 in 1867, and the last notice of it states that the British Museum 

 possesses only half a specimen. Nydabenion orontes is a day-flying 

 moth, also from Cape York, Avhicli has hitherto only been received 

 from Amboyna. 



Mr James Lumsden exhibited a partial albino of the Common 

 Woodcock {Scolopax rusticola), which had been shot at Ardlamont, 

 Argyllshire, last month, and forwarded by Mr Allan Gilmour. 



Mr Peter Cameron, jun., exhibited Trichiosoma sorbi, Htg., a 

 saw-fly new to the British lists. It was described by Hartig in 

 the Stett. Ent. Zeits., i., 20, 1840; and subsequently its transfor- 

 mations were described by Ratzburg (Forst-inseckten, iii., 136), 

 and by Zaddach (Blatt. u. Holzwespen, p. 263, pi. ii., figs. 8, 9, 10). 

 The larva feeds, as the specific name denotes, on Soi'bus aucuparia. 

 It is of a yellowish-green colour, with the skin beset with white 

 warts ; the head is ochre-yellow, with a reddish-brown mark on 

 each side of the vertex; and the spiracles are clear red. Although 

 the rarest of the European TricMosomce, it seems to be widely 

 distributed in the Highlands, having been taken by Mr Cameron in 

 Strath Glass and Glen Lyon ; and the larvae had been forwarded 

 to him from Braemar, by Dr Buchanan White. 



Mr Cameron at the same time described the transformations of 

 the other British species of Trichiosoma. These are : — T. betuleti, 

 Kl., the larva of which feeds on hawthorn ; T. lucorum, L., which 



