XXll 



May 1, 1878. 

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



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

 donors. 



Mr. Dunning drew attention to the fact that the present meeting marked 

 the forty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Society. 



Election of a Member and Subscriber. 



Mr. Henry John Elwes, F.L.S., F.Z.S., of Preston House, Cirencester, 

 was elected an ordinary Member. Mr. Peter Cameron, of tH, Willow Bank 

 Crescent, was elected a Subscriber. 



Exhibitions, Sc. 



Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited a specimen of the Hemipteron Tetroda 

 bilineata, Walk., as a remarkable instance of immunity from the effects 

 of damp, the same having been kept in a relaxing-pan for more than 

 four months. 



Mr. Distant also communicated a paper entitled " Notes on some 

 Hemiptera-Homoptera, with Descriptions of new Species," in which he 

 drew attention to the uncertainty of generic calculations as to geographical 

 distribution ; the Homoptera affording a good illustration in the family 

 Cercopida, especially the genus Cercojns. 



The President remarked that the old coleopterous genus Buprestis had, 

 like Cercopis, at one time almost ceased to exist, through the generic 

 subdivision it had undergone. 



New Part of ' Transactions.'' 

 Part I. of the ' Transactions ' for 1878 was on the table. 



