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species was much less common than usual this year, the numbers of valezina were 

 proportionately greater. 



Prof. Wood-Mason read a paper on the difPerence between the form of the antennae 

 in the males of^Idolomorpha and other genera of Empusidce (BlantidceJ. 



Mr. Dunning read a paper on the genus Acentroj^us. 



Mr. Butler communicated descriptions of several new species of Myriopoda of 

 the genera Sphcerolherium and Zephronia. 



Mr. Baly sent descriptions of new genera and species of South American 

 EumnlpidcB. 



4th September, 1878.- — F. Smith, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



David Price, Esq., of Horsham, was elected a Member, and Captain Thomas 

 Broun, of Auckland, New Zealand, a Subscriber. 



Mr. Eutherford exhibited two specimens of an Orthopterous insect (Paloptms 

 Ccntaurus, Westwood) fi'om Mount Camaroons, remarkable for its nocturnal habits, 

 and for the perfect resemblance shown between it and the twigs of the tree it 

 frequents. 



Mr. Meldola stated that he had remarked, in Hipparchia Semele, an amount of 

 protective resemblance analogous to that noticed at the previous Meeting in the case 

 of Aterica Meleagris : specimens of the Hipparchia from the sand hills of Lancashire 

 differing perceptibly on the under-side from those of the chalk of the South of 

 England. Mr. Weir remarked that he had been able to detect Jersey specimens of 

 this butterfly which had been mixed with ordir.ary British examples. Mr. Boyd 

 alluded to the pale colour of Hepialus lupulinus at Margate. 



Mr. Smith exhibited a fruit of the " Locust tree " of British Guiana, which was 

 found to contain living specimens of a weevil (Cryptorliynchus stigma, Linn.), and a 

 small ichneumon. He also exhibited a specimen of Melolontha vulgaris found re- 

 cently in the perfect state in a box in which a larva had been placed last April. 



Mr. Champion exhibited a series of Spercheus emarginatus from West Ham. 



Mr. Spiller exhibited a collection of so-called "jumping seeds" from Mexico, 

 containing larvae of Carpocapsa saltitans. 



The Secretary exhibited a photograph of Prodryas Persephoiw, Scudder, a fossil 

 butterfly of the tertiaries of Colorado, which showed a remarkable degree of preser- 

 vation. 



Mr. F. Smith stated that having recently had occasion to consult the Linnean 

 collection of insects, he found that it had been allowed to fall into a state of complete 

 neglect, and that after having consulted the Council of this Society, he proposed that 

 immediate steps be taken to remedy such a state of affairs, which was agreed to 

 unanimously. 



Mr. Swinton communicated a paper " On the vocal and instrumental music of 

 insects." 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse read a paper on Coleoptera from Jamaica and other 

 islands of the West Indies. 



2nd Odoler, 1878.— H. W. Bates, Esq., E.L.S., &c., President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. J. L. Hamilton, M.E.C.S., of 34, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, was elected 

 a Subscriber, and Mr. T. Nottidge, of Ashford, a Member. 



