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in -wliich were "from his own drawings (for he was an accurate artist in Natural 

 History subjects). Locally he largely contributed materials for Brewer's "Flora 

 of Surrey." It has already been said tliat he was one of the original members of 

 the Entomological Society of London, of which he was President in 184.1 and 1842, 

 and in 1856 and 1857. In 1833 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society (of 

 which he was Treasurer from 1861 to 1873), and in 1853 of the Royal Society. 

 In the afPairs of the Royal Horticultural Society he also took a warm interest, 

 and was Vice-President during the most troublous times in the annals of that 

 somewhat unfortunate body : in fact, wherever Natural Science in any form could 

 be forwarded, he was always ready both with his services and his purse. Un- 

 fortunately, his powers of rendering assistance came to an abrupt termination a 

 few years before his death. In 1873 a period of unprecedented disasters to all en- 

 gaged in marine insurance reached its height, and, to the surprise and regret of all, 

 the great underwriting firm of which he was the head, collapsed ; and the vast 

 collections formed during a long life were dispersed, most of the insects being 

 fortunately secured by the British Museum, and the Hope Museum at Oxford ; to 

 the former institution he had some years previously presented the whole of certain 

 Orders. He passed the few latter years of his life quietly at Worthing, devoting 

 himself to his old favourite pursuit of Horticulture, and contributing occasional 

 papers to the Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Saunders was thrice mai-ried, and leaves a widow, three sons, two daughters, 

 and many grandchildi'cn. His youngest son has abundantly proved that he fully 

 inherits his father's scientific tastes. One of his daugliters is the wife of the Rev. 

 T. R. Stcbbing, well-known as a student of, and writer on, Crustacea. 



Entomological Society of London. — September 3rd, 1879. J. J. Weie, 

 Esq., F.L.S., Treasurer, in the Chair. 



Mr. P. B. Mason exhibited specimens of Harpalus oblongiusciilus, Dejean, taken 

 in August, at Portland. Many examples had been found. He also exhibited, on 

 behalf of Mr. Garneys, an example of Euplectus ambiguus, Reich., as illustrating 

 the difference between the type-form and the var. " duplo minor," described by 

 Thomson. 



Mr. Weir exhibited S and ? of Cicada montana, Scopoli, from the New Forest. 



Miss Ormerod exhibited further examples of sugar-cane borers from Demerara, 

 consisting of the moth and a species of Calandra, and read an account of the means 

 employed on the plantations for their destruction, which appeared to mainly consist 

 of burning the infested canes on the ground, thus destroying not only the borers, 

 but also their natural enemies, especially ants. The Calandra appeared only to 

 infest canes already attacked by the Lepidopterous larva. 



Mr. McLachlan stated that the moth was probably no other than that noticed 

 by Fabricius in 1794, under the name of Phalcena saccharalis, and which had been 

 repeatedly observed since his time in various parts of the West Indies and South 

 America. He agreed with the practice of burning the canes, but not on the planta- 

 tions, as they stand. The canes that shewed signs of being attacked, should be at 

 once up-rooted, collected, and bunied outside the plantations. 



Mons. Ch. Oberthur communicated descriptions (with figures) of Lepidoptera 

 from the island of Sangir. 



