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on April 2nd, 1879. Mr. Rothney found the Dahlia very attractive to almost all 

 kinds of insects which never suffered from any narcotic or otherwise injurious 

 effects. 



Mr. Cameron communicated "Notes on the coloration and development of 

 insects." 



Professor Westwood communicated "Notes on gynandromorphous examples of 

 Cirrochroa Aoris, an Indian butterfly, and on Cetonia aurata and Protaclia Bensoni." 



5th May, 1880.— H. T. Stainton, Esq., F.E.S., &c, in the Chair. 



Mr. Peter Inchbald, of Hovingham, Yorkshire, formerly a Member, was 

 re-elected. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a pale variety of Nyssia hispidaria, $ , recently taken 

 at light at Cheshunt Station. 



Mr. Walhouse exhibited sundry Greodephagous Coleoptera, found at a great 

 altitude in India. 



Mr. Distant exhibited a long series of Ptyelus Goudoti from Madagascar (allied 

 to our common Cuckoo-spit insect), illustrating the great variation that exists (as 

 in Pt. spumaria). The larva was known to emit a frothy secretion, and in such 

 quantities, that it dropped from the trees like rain. 



Mr. Billups exhibited two living examples of Carabus auratus, found in the 

 Borough Market, London, and believed to have been imported from Belgium. 



Mr. Pascoe said he had lately heard it asserted that a Sphinx with a haustellum 

 sufficiently long to reach the nectary of Anagrcecum sesquipedale of Madagascar, had 

 been recently discovered, and asked for confirmation of this. No Member present 

 was able to confirm the statement. 



Miss E. A. Ormerod, in presenting a copy of the " Cobham Journals," drawn up 

 from observations on the correlation of meteorological influences with the condition of 

 animal and vegetable life, made by Miss Molesworth at Cobham, Surrey, over a 

 period of about 44 years (1825 — 1850), remarked on the necessity of combined action 

 in making public similar observations in future. 



2nd June, 1880. — Sis John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., &c, President, in the 

 Chair. 



Miss G-. Ormerod, of Isleworth, and Mr. H. Lufton, of Chapel Allerton, Leeds, 

 were elected Members. 



Mr. Walhouse exhibited a collection of moths formed by himself at Mangalorc, 

 on the Malabar coast. 



Mr. Einzi exhibited (on behalf of Mr. Lowrey) an example of Arclia fuliginosa, 

 in which one antenna was congenitally absent. The President stated that he had 

 occasionally bred ants with only one antenna, and one example with no antennas, 

 this latter being helpless when out of the nest. 



The President exhibited an Australian ant, allied to Camponotus, remarkable 

 for having its abdomen enormously distended (resembling that of a gx'avid queen 

 Termite), so that it was little else than an animated honey-bag. In this it was 

 analogous to another (American) species forming the genus Myrmecocystus of 

 Wesmael. 



The Rev. H. S. Gorbam communicated the concluding part of his " Materials 

 for a Revision of the Lampyrida." 



