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be right — it would appear invidious to advert to the revival of the generic names 

 Pacht/merus, Platygaster, and Heterog aster, which have long been disused on account 

 of prior emplovment ; the more especially, as the author has followed and not led the 

 way : in this, as in other things, all will be set right eventually. We hail, in the 

 person of the author, the rising of a new star in the east, which we hope may prove 

 to be the nucleus of a new constellation, by the light of which the Insect-Fauna of 

 Hungary, now imperfectly known, may be fully investigated. 



Entomological Society of London : Zrd May, 1876. — Sir S. S. Saunders, 

 C.M.O-., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mons. Jules Lichtenstein, of Montpellier, was elected a Foreign Member. 



The Eev. J. Hellins sent for exhibition various British Lepidoptera lately sub- 

 mitted to M. Q-uenee for his opinion and determination. The collection included a 

 dark variety of Acronycta myriccB from Mr. Birchall ; certain AcidalicB sent by Mr. 

 Hellins and Mr. Gr. F. Mathew, apparently to be referred to manciiniata ; several 

 extraordinary aberrations referred to Melanippe rivata, Oporabia sp. ?, Coremia 

 ferrtiyata, &c., fi-om Mr. Dale and Mr. Mathew ; an example of Folia eld, var. 

 olivacea, from Major Hutchinson ; several EupithecicB from Dr. Buchanan White, 

 including the var. oxydata of E. siibfidvata, and an insect which Dr. White proposed 

 to name septentrionata, not known to M. Guenee ; the most important of all was a 

 Noctua, bearing some resemblance to Xanthia circellaris (ferrngineaj , not known to 

 M. G-uenee, taken at Queenstown, over bramble-blossoms, in July or August, 1872, 

 by Mr. Mathew. Concerning this insect it was remarked, that it had been shewn to 

 Dr. Staudinger by M. Guenee, and that it was also unknown to him as European. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited one of the palm-nuts (fruit of Phytelephas macrocarpa) 

 known as vegetable ivory (or, in the vernacular, as ' Coroza,' ' Corassa,' or ' Corusco '), 

 imported in this instance from Guyaquil, infested by the larva of a beetle allied to 

 Bruchu.t, which occasioned considerable damage to cargoes of these nuts. 



Mr. Distant exiiibited a series of six examples of the butterfly lihomia Tutia, 

 Hewitson, from Ccjsta Eica. These had been selected to shew the very considerable 

 variation in markings to which the species is evidently liable. He also communicated 

 remarks on the lihopalocera of Costa Rica, as addenda to the paper by Messrs. Butler 

 and Druce, published in the I'roc. Zool. Soc. for 1874. 



The Secretary read a communication from the Foreign Office, enclosing a letter 

 from Her Majesty's Minister at Madrid, concerning the ravages of Locusts in Spain. 

 In this letter it was announced that considerable ajiprehcnsion existed in certain 

 parts of Spain as to the probability of the crops being destroyed by these insects 

 during the ensuing season, as vast numbers of young Locusts had appeared, and 

 military aid had been ordered in the affected districts. More precise information as 

 to the species <A Locust indicated was considered desirable. 



