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was unable to attend the Meeting, and the reading of his Address was therefore 

 postponed. The following were elected Members of the Council for 1877, viz. : — 

 Messrs. Bates, Champion, Dunning, Douglas, Grrut, Meldola, E. Saunders, Stainton, 

 Weir, Prof. Westwood, Sir S. Saunders, the Eer. A. E. Eaton, and T. A. Marshall. 

 The following Officers were elected, viz. : — Prof. Westwood, President ; Mr. J. J. Weir, 

 Treasurer ; Eer. T. A. Marshall, Librarian ; and Messrs. Grrut and Meldola, 

 Secretaries. 



February Ith, 1877, Professor Westwood, President, in the Chair. 



The President nominated Messrs. J. W. Douglas, J. W. Dunning, and H. T, 

 Stainton, Vice-Presidents for the year ; after which he proceeded to read extracts 

 from the Address he had prepared for the Anniversary Meeting. 



Mr. Bond exhibited another example of Danais ArcMppus taken in England, 

 near Haywards' Heath, Sussex, by Mr. Alford Wood in the second week of 

 September last. 



Professor Westwood exhibited an example of the beautiful and curious butter- 

 fly Bhutanitis Lidderdalii, Atkinson, from Bhootau. 



The President remarked that Baron Osten-Sacken had directed his attention to 

 a paper by the late B. D. Walsh, in the Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., in which it was 

 related that he had bred a Dipteron from a cocoon of Limacodes hyalimis, which 

 Dipteron proved to be the common North American species of Systropus (S. macer^ 

 Loew) ; and referring to Professor Westwood's remarks in his paper on the genus 

 Systropus in the last part of the Transactions, in which he had stated that S. crudelis 

 was bred from a cocoon in Natal, having a resemblance to that of Limacodes — he 

 considered it a remarkable instance of community of habit among insects of the 

 same genus in such distant parts of the globe. The Professor had also been 

 informed by M. Ernest Olivier, of Moulins, who had recently visited Pompeii, that 

 he had observed large numbers of JBombylii flying in company with a bee of which 

 he had forwarded a specimen — but this proved to be an Anthophora, and not an 

 Andrena like those described by him in his paper in the last part of the Transactions 

 (Notse Dipterologicse, No. 1). 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited an extraordinary case of a Lepidopterous larva from 

 Zanzibar, sent by Dr. Kii'k, who had found it on Mimosa. It was probably allied 

 to Psyche and Oiketicus, and was in the form of a flattened Helix, half-an-inch 

 in diameter, formed apparently of a kind of papier mache, with a smooth whitish 

 outside coating. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited curious varieties of the following British 

 Lepidoptera : — Agrotis exclamationis, Chrysophanus phlceas, and Polyommatus 

 Adonis and Alexis. 



Dr. F. Buchanan White forwarded an extract from the "Medical Examiner" of 

 21st December last, containing an account by Dr. Tilbury Fox of an extraordinary 

 case of " Pruritus " which infested every member of a family and household, in- 

 cluding even the dog and cat. A specimen of the creature had been submitted to 

 Dr. Cobbold, who had pronounced it to be a species of Trombidium — and it was 

 believed by Dr. Fox to have originated from certain plants in the garden, and that 

 the cat and dog who appeared to have been the first affected were agents in 

 conveying the parasite to the human members of the family. 



The following papers were read, viz. : — 



Notes on the African Sa/itrnidm in the collection of the Royal Dublin Society, 

 by W. F. Kirby. 



Descriptions of new genera and species of Phytophagous Beetles, belonging to 

 the Family Cryptocephalidce, together with diagnoses and remarks on previously 

 described genera, by Joseph S. Baly, F.L.S. 



Descriptions of new species of Phytophagous Beetles belonging to the Family 

 Eumolpidce, and a monograph of the genus Eumolpus, by Joseph S. Baly, F.L.S. 



