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specimens of this lulus for many weeks, in a vessel exposed to 

 the light, and has observed that they invariably conceal them- 

 selves under decayed vegetables or in the tan in the day, and 

 only mount to the surface and move about by night. 



A notice of Apate elongata and A. suhstriata, by M. Her- 

 mann AssMUss, was read. 



A notice of a new species of Polydesmtis, by M. Gervais, 

 was read, 



A notice of numerous Lepidoptera from the south of Spain, 

 by M. Rambur, was read. 



M. Arnaud, of Chambery in Savoy, having been proposed 

 by M. Feisthamel, was admitted a Member of the Society. 



Sitting of the 6th of October, 1836. 



M. DupoNCHEL in the Chair. 



The following donation was announced : — 



M. DuPONCHEL. Supplement a I'Histoire naturelle des 

 Lepidopteres. Par M. Duponchel. Tome III., T" hvraison. 



A monograph of the genus Oxymeclia^ by M. Emile 

 Blanchard, was read. 



A description of a new Tineite, by M. Barthelemy, was 

 read. 



A description of a new species o{ Ricinus, by M. Barthe- 

 LEMY, was read. 



An account of an Entomological Tour in Andalusia, by M. 

 Graslin, was read. 



M. Giraldes having been proposed by M. Audinet Ser- 

 ville, was admitted a Member of the Society. 



Sitting of the 2d of November, 1836. 



M. Duponchel in the Chair. 



The following donations were announced : — 



The Imperial Society of Naturalists at Moscow. 

 The Fourth Volume of that Society's Transactions, also the 

 Eleventh Volume of the Bulletins of that Society. 



M. Mequignon. Genera des Insectes, par MM. Guerin 

 et Percheron. 5™*^ livraison. 



M. Leon Dufour. Memoir of an Excursion on the 

 Pyrenees. 



A letter from M. Germar was read, informing the Society 



