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PUOCEEDINGS OF THE 



that he was engaged on Fossil Insects, and soliciting the 

 Society to insert in the record of its Proceedings an invitation 

 to entomologists to transmit any facts or specimens connected 

 with the subject. 



A letter was read from M. Zoubkoff, principal Secretary (o 

 the Imperial Society of Naturalists at Moscow, soliciting the 

 Society to announce in the record of its Proceedings, that 

 persons desirous of communicating with the Imperial Society, 

 must do so through the Russian Ambassador. 



A letter was read from M. le Baron Walckenaer, in refer- 

 ence to two papers published in the previous Number of the 

 Annales; one by M. Lucas, on a new species of I.ycosa; the 

 other by M. Leon Dufour, on the genus Filistrata : the object 

 of the letter was to prove that the Lycosa erythrognata of 

 Lucas was identical with Lycosa raptoria of Walckenaer; also 

 to offer some observations on the affinities of the genus Fill- 

 strata. 



M. DupoNCHEL read a notice sent to him to M. de Villiers 

 of Chartres, on the subject of a scientific meeting which had 

 taken place at Blois, during last September. In this commu- 

 nication M. de Villiers expressed the regret he experienced at 

 not meeting with a single Member of the Entomological 

 Society ; he also stated that he had proposed the plan of 

 naturalists exerting themselves in the particular district, and 

 the particular branch of study, best suited to them ; keeping a 

 record of the same, and submitting these various records to 

 the ensuing scientific Meeting, which should print, publish, 

 and circulate them. The proposition was acceded to. 



M. PiERRET informed the Meeting that Papilio Feisthamelei 

 had been found in the environs of Perpignan, in company with 

 Podallrius. This was the first notice of P. Feisthamelei having 

 occurred in the French Pyrenees. 



M. PiERRET also informed the Meeting of the loss the 

 Society had sustained by the death of M. Alexandre Dela- 



MONTAIGNE. 



Sitting of the IGth of November, 1830. 



M. DupoNciiEL in the Chair. 



The following donations were announced : — 

 M. DuPONCHEL. Complement de I'Histoire naturelle des 

 Lepidopteres. Par M, Duponchel. Tome I. 20™® livraison. 



