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The Secretary announced the death of Prof. Boheman, an 

 Honorary Member of the Society : he died at Stockholm on 

 the 2nd of November, at the age of seventy-two years. 



The Secretary announced that an exhibition of bees would 

 be held at Milan, from the 10th to the 13th of the month, 

 and would comprise a collection of all kinds of bees, honey, 

 and instruments and utensils employed in apiculture, for 

 which various prizes would be distributed. A silver medal 

 was also offered for the best mode of takiug the honey with- 

 out destroying the bees. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two specimens of Limenitis Sibylla, 

 negroes, entirely black on the upper side ; and three speci- 

 mens of Polyommatus Adonis, one of which, a male, was 

 remarkable for its extremely small size, another bore on the 

 under side of the fore wings a number of broad bars of black, 

 whilst the third, a female, was partly coloured like the male, 

 the upper surface of the wings being dashed with bright blue, 

 not shading off" into brown, but clearly and sharply defined. 



Mr. Dutton exhibited a Catocala Fraxini, captured in an 

 empty house at Eastbourne in August last. 



January 4, 1869. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two diminutive specimens of Vanessa 

 UrticsB, about half the usual size of the butterfly ; they were 

 two out of fifty or more dwarfs, not all of the same brood of 

 larvae, which, owing probably to the extreme heat of 1868, 

 had been developed with remarkable rapidity, having re- 

 mained less than a week in the chrysalis state. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a dark variety of the female 

 Apatura Iris, and a very pale variety of Hesperia Comma. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a specimen of Crambus myel- 

 lus, captured by Mr. Adam Boyd some time since near Blair 

 Athol, and which had remained mixed in Mr. Boyd's col- 

 lection with C. pinetellus, until his attention was called to it 

 by the announcement at the previous Meeting. 



The Secretary exhibited photographs of nests of Vespa 

 Britannica and V. arborea, presented to the Society by Mr. 

 John Hogg, by whom the nests were found at Norton, 

 Durham. 



Mr. Smith exhibited a series of drawings of bees and 



