PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



FUR 



18 7 8. 



February 6, 1878. 

 H. W. Bates, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. 



The President nominated Prof. J. O. Westwood, Mr. J. W. Douglas and 

 Mr. Frederick Smith as Vice-Presidents. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and tlianks voted to the 

 donors. 



Election of Members. 



Mr. Richard S. Standon, of Holmwood Lodge, Surbiton, and Mr. T. W. 

 Wonfor, of 38, Buckingham Place, Brighton, were ballotted for and elected ' 

 Members. 



Exhibitions, dtc. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited three specimens of an At^jpus taken on a bank 

 near Lewes ; they were stated to erect a pile of small pieces of chalk in 

 front of their burrows. Mr. Weir also exhibited a remarkable spider from 

 Madagascar, and a small living spider [Philodromus), marked and coloured 

 in imitation of lichen, which he had beaten out of trees in the New Forest. 



Sir Sidney Saunders stated that the Atijpus was A. Sidzeri, Koch. 



Mr. M'Lachlau exhibited a small collection of dragon-flies of the genus 

 Euthore, in illustration of a paper entitled " Calopterygina collected by 

 Mr. Buckley in Ecuador and Bolivia." The collection contained a fine 

 series of both sexes of a new species, Euthore vmabiiis. 



Mr. Meldola exhibited a remarkable specimen of Leucania conigera taken 

 at Willesden. The colour and markings of the fore wings were reproduced 

 on the lower half of the left hind wing. 



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