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what we know to be the case in some other insects) the pupae might be 

 accumulated from year to year, and the perfect insects from these accumula- 

 tions burst forth simultaneously. 



(Signed) R. M'Lachlan, F.R.S. 



Chas. Owkn Waterhouse. 

 December 4th, 1878." 



Paper read. 

 Mr. A G. Butler communicated a paper " On a collection of Lepidopteiu 

 from Cachar, N.E. India." 



ANNUAL MEETING, 



January 15, 1879. 



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



Mr. J. W. Dunning, one of the Auditors, read an abstract of the 

 Treasurer's Accounts for 1878, showing a balance of £'30 14s. 7d. in favour 

 of the Society. 



The Secretary read the following : — 



Report of the Council for 1878. 



The Council, in accordance with the Bye-Laws, begs to submit the 

 following Report ; — 



During the year 1878 the Society has lost four Members by resignation 

 and two by death, while fourteen new Members and Subscribers have been 

 elected. The losses by death are Mr. William Chapman Hewitson, the 

 well-known Lepidopterist, and Mr. T. W. Wonfor, Curator of the Brighton 

 Free Library and Museum. 



The 'Transactions' for 1878 (exclusive of the 'Proceedings') form a 

 volume of 336 pages, containing six plates, of which two are coloured. 

 Although the volume is smaller than that of last year, it again shows a 

 favourable increase in the number of memoirs, of which it contains thirty- 

 one, many of them being of wide biological interest. In our ' Journal of 

 Proceedings ' will likewise be found recorded many valuable communications 

 and discussions. 



