48 I July, 1805. 



Mr. Frederick Smith, exhibited a specimen of the rare Apate capudna, cap- 

 tured by his yonngest son, Edgar, in Bishop's Wood, where it was crawling on 

 felled timber, recently barked. 



Professor Westwood remarked that Sir Thos. Pasley had formerly obtained a 

 number of this insect from oak timber in Pembroke Dockyard ; and Mr. Smith 

 observed that he once found, in looking through Mr. Hope's extensive collection, a 

 box in which were five or six specimens of the insect, labelled as captured in Long- 

 mynd Forest, Shropshii-e. 



Mr. F. Bond exhibited the specimen of DianthcBcia albimacula, the second 

 known British specimen, taken at Gosport, and which had been already noticed in 

 the pages of " The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine."* 



Mr. Stainton exhibited some galls on the leaves of Quercus Ilex (?), collected 

 by the Rev. H. Burney, during the past winter, at Mentone, in the south of France. 

 The President exhibited a Dorcadion, which was apparently a new species, 

 from Alicante. 



Professor Westwood called attention to a mode of preserving larvae which had 

 been adopted in Dr. Burchell's collection, now at Oxford. The contents of the 

 bodies of the larvee had been squeezed out by subjecting them to pressure, and the 

 empty skins had been then rapidly dried, — preserving the colour and markings of 

 the larvae, though, of course, the form was flat instead of being cylindrical. 



Mr. F. Moore read a paper, with descriptions of six species of Saturnia, viz. : 

 Cidosa, Grotei, Huttoni, Lindia, Sherwilli, and Pyretorum. 



The President informed the Members present that the Council had accepted 

 the invitation of Mr. Saunders, to spend the day with him at Reigate, on Friday, 

 the 23rd instant. 



The President much regretted to have to intimate to the Society the death of 

 one of its Honorary Members, M. Leon Dufour, at the age of 88. A valuable paper 

 from his pen had just just appeared in the Annals of the French Entomological 

 Society. 



The President also called attention to a passage in the " Pall Mall Gazette," 

 intimating that an Exhibition of Insects was about to be held in Paris. It would 

 consist of — insects producing silk, honey, and wax ; insects used in dyeing ; insects 

 used for the table ; insects used in medicine, and insects destructive to cereals. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark then adverted to the proposition, now exciting some 

 attention, of establishing Museums in various parts of London ; and Professor 

 Westwood wished to know if the Surrey Music Hall could not be converted into a 

 Museum. Mr. Grut said that several meetings on the subject of a South London 

 Museum had lately been held at the " Horns," Kennington. 



Mr. F. Smith called attention to the species of Bomhus which Dr. Sichel had 

 lately endeavoured to show were identical with the Bomhus montanus of St. Fargeau. 

 Mr. Smith doubted himself whether the montanus of Dr. Sichel were truly the 

 montanus of St. Fargeau, and noted the extreme variety in the form of the head in 

 the specimens reputed by Dr. Sichel to be all one species. 



Professor Westwood called attention to a passage in the "Gardener's Chronicle" 

 of the previous Saturday, in which mention was made of eggs being deposited by 

 worker-bees. 



Mr. F. Smith promised to bring to the next Meeting of the Society a paper on 

 wasps, which he had received from Mr. Stone. 



• See Vol. r, pp. 2^7 nnd 28^. 



