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esteemed Members, who are habitual absentees, the benefits 

 which they might be enabled to confer by returning to our 

 horizon from their remoter orbits in the reahns of ether, and 

 shedding new lustre upon our discussions. We are each of 

 us more or less liable to be called upon in various ways to 

 satisfy the importunities of conventional obligations ; and in 

 looking forward to the future as fraught with propitious 

 augury, we must rely upon the zealous co-operation of all to 

 improve our vigour and efficiency. VVe will now proceed, 

 Gentlemen, to the ordinary business of the evening. 



On the proposal of Mr. Sheppard, seconded by Mr. Bates, 

 it was agreed that the thanks of the meeting be given to the 

 Members of Council and the Secretary for the trouble they 

 had taken on behalf of the Society in making arrangements 

 for the new Meeting Room and Library, and in removing and 

 entirely re-arranging the collection of books. Also, that the 

 thanks of the meeting be given to the Member who had so 

 generously aided the Society by undertaking to provide the 

 expenses of removal to Chandos Street. 



Mines of Heliozela sericiella. — Mr. Boyd exhibited speci- 

 mens of the mines of Heliozela sericiella. He had succeeded 

 in rearing the insects, by confining them with a young oak- 

 plant, and thus was enabled to discover their habits, of which 

 nothing had hitherto been known. The mines were formed 

 in the loot-stalks of the leaves. 



Female of Enoicyla. — Mr, M'Lachlan exhibited a living 

 apterous female of a Trichopterous insect, Enoicyla (probably 

 E. pusilla, Burni.). He had recently bred it, with others, 

 from cases forwarded to him by Mr. Fletcher, of Worcester, 

 the discoverer of the insect in this country. Mr. M'Lachlan 

 gave an account of its structure and singular habits. The 

 perfect insects emerge in November, the males being 

 furnished with ample wings, 



Coleoptera. — Mr. Champion exhibited examples of the 

 following Coleoptera recently captured by himself, viz., 

 Cryptophagus Populi (varying greatly in size and colour), 

 taken from the burrows of CoUeles Daviesana, near Farnhani, 

 Surrey; Orchestes semirufus, GylL? from Woking; Epuraea 

 neglecta, beaten from faggot-stacks at Darenth Wood ; and 

 Psammodius porcicollis from Whitsand Bay. The last-named 

 had been taken by Mr. S. S. Walker. 



