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liad placed on the table. Some specimens of Sponges from the chalk 

 and flints at Folkstone were particularly alluded to. 



The President stated that during a recent visit to Folkstone he 

 had noticed two swallows there, flying about the lower Sandgate 

 Road, on the 20th of November : they were busy fly-catching, and 

 appeared in perfect condition. 



He also stated that the traces of a large and most probably an 

 entirely new Saurian had been discovered in East Wear Bay, in the 

 Gait : the portions which he had examined were certain large bone- 

 like scales, which apparently were attached to the skin of the animal 

 in question ; these were six to eight inches long, irregular ovate, and 

 much elevated in the centre. 



The President then went into an explanation and illustration of 

 the very remarkable inflations or protuberances often found on the 

 head and thorax of various insects. He exhibited a large number of 

 specimens from various families of insects, to show the chief cha- 

 racters of the remarkable structure alluded to: passing gradually 

 from Order to Order, he showed that these anomalies of the head 

 and thorax were found in the Coleoptera, Homoptera, Hemiptera, 

 Orthoptera and Diptera, but were not seen to any extent in the 

 Lepidoptera, Neuroptera or Hymenoptera. In some instances the 

 object of these protuberances was apparent, but in most cases no 

 good reason could as yet (seeing how very imperfectly known the 

 Natural History of Insects is) be given for them. 



January 11, 1867. — The Secretary brought for exhibition the two 

 following species of Coleoptera, new to the Reigate district : — 

 Slilicus geniculatus, Er. From roots of grass on Box Hill. 

 Trogophlceus tenellus, Er. Banks of the Mole, near Burford 

 Bridge. 

 Mr. Sydney Webb brought for exhibition the following forty-six 

 species of Lepidoptera, captured by himself in the Reigate district, 

 and not previously recorded as occurring there : — 



TORTRICES. 



Lozotania transitana, Dbl. Redstone Wood, July, 1865. 

 Spilonota rosacolana, Dbl. Bred from rose leaves, 1866. 



