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April 19. 



E. Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



M. Pakenham Edgeworth, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, was 

 elected a Fellow. 



The Secretary announced that the Treasurer had received from the 

 Executors of the late Archibald Menzies, Esq., F.L.S., the sum of 

 90^., being the amount of a legacy of 1001. bequeathed by him to the 

 Linnean Society, after deducting 10/. for legacy duty. 



J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., exhibited numerous species of 

 SphingidcB, Nocturnal Lepidoptera, and other insects, from the collec- 

 tion of Lieut. -Col. Hearsey, formed during a residence of thirty years 

 in Central India. He stated this collection to be very interesting on 

 account of its local character, and as compared with the splendid col- 

 lections recently received from Sylhet and the Himalayas, exhibited 

 at late meetings of this Society. In Colonel Hearsey's collection 

 the species of the modern genus Papilio are very few in number, and 

 well known. Of P. Hector there is but a single specimen. There 

 is not a single species of Lucanus, nor true Fulgora, in the collection ; 

 a striking peculiarity as compared with the Sylhet and Himalayan 

 collections. The collection, however, contains a species of Paussus 

 and one of Diopsis, both new ; a very minute Apotomus, specimens 

 of both sexes of the interesting Hymenopterous genus Trirogma, a 

 number of very English-looking Harpalidce, various Alhyrei and 

 Bolboceri, as well as most of the new species described by Mr. 

 Saunders in the last Part of the Transactions of the Entomological 

 Society. 



Read the concluding portion of " A Catalogue of Spiders, either 

 not previously recorded or little known as indigenous to Great Bri- 

 tain, with remarks on their Habits and Economy." By John Black- 

 waU, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



The following is a list of the species enumerated by Mr. Black- 

 wall : — 



1. Drassus sericeus, Walck. In several of the northern counties of En- 

 gland and Wales. 



2. Drassus ater, Walck. Common in Denbighshire and Caernarvon- 

 shire. 



