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President — Professor "William H. Harvey, M.D., M.B.I.A. 



Vice-Presidents — His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin ; Lord Talbot 

 de Malahide, M.E.I.A. ; Sir Edward E. Borough, Bart., M.B.I.A. ; 

 C. P. Croker, M.D., M.B.I.A. 



Council — John Aldridge, M.D., M.B.I.A.; Bobert S.Barklie; Henry 

 M. Barton; E. W. Brady; Bobert Callwell, M.B.I.A. ; James B. Dom- 

 brain; Charles Earran, M.D. ; Samuel Gordon, M.D., M.B.I.A.; Bev. 

 S. Haughton, E.T.C.D., M.B.I.A. ; Bobert J. Montgomery ; George B. 

 Owens, M.D. ; Gilbert Sanders, M.B.I.A. ; Joseph Todhunter. 



Treasurer — Bichard P. Williams, Esq., M.B.I.A. 



Secretaries — William Andrews, M.B.I.A., and John B. Kinahan, 

 M.B. 



The meeting was then made special, for the purpose of balloting for 

 members, and the following were declared duly elected: — Edwin 

 Birchall, Esq., Dublin ; J. Neligan, Esq., Tralee ; Bobert Boberts, Esq., 

 Harcourt- terrace ; J. B. Doyle, Esq., Dublin. 



The meeting then adjourned to the month of December. 



DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL 

 ASSOCIATION. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. BY A. H. HALIDAY, A.M. 



These notes, presented to the meeting of the Association on the 21st of 

 November, 1856, were referred to the Secretaries as a Committee of 

 Publication. As the Illustrations of new or little known British insects 

 forming part of them are intended to appear, accompanied by figures, 

 in a future Number, only the notices appended, of captures and obser- 

 vations during the past season, are given here. 



I have very little to lay before the Association as the result of col- 

 lecting during the past season. Indeed, when I say that there were 

 barely ten days of the summer on which I was able to collect at all, and 

 this only in the neighbourhood of Dublin itself, or the adjoining county 

 of Wicklow, which is comparatively beaten ground for Irish entomo- 

 logists, it will not seem strange that the produce should be small, — 

 perhaps rather encouraging that I have been able, with so little op- 

 portunity, to add to the Irish Insect Eauna two genera of Diptera, and 

 to increase by one new species a group of this order, which has been 

 particularly attended to previously in our own islands, — the Ephydrini. 



An excursion to Lough Bray by a small party of the members of this 

 Association, on the 4th of July, was not very productive. It was too 

 late iovEmpis borealis, which was common there the preceding year, when 

 a similar visit was made in May. Now, Rhagio scolopaceus instead was 

 the most conspicuous fly that hovered over the tufts of whortleberries 



