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December 3, 1879. 

 J. W. Dunning, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, iu the chair. 



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

 respective donors. 



The Chairman read out a Ust of the names of the Officers and Council 

 proposed for election on January '-ilst, 1880. 



Exhibitions, ttc. 



Mr. Howard Vaughan exhibited a series of remarkable varieties of 

 Lycmna Corydon, taken at Dover, one specimen, a female, being suffused 

 with blue on the upper side of the left pair of wings only, whilst the right 

 wings were uniformly brown. 



Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited a hitherto unrecorded variety of Danais 

 lilexippus, Linn, (commonly known as D. archippHs), received from Antigua, 

 in which the rufous coloration was quite absent, the ground colour being 

 dull pale testaceous. Although another similar specimen was received, the 

 variety could not be considered as a local form, Antiguan specimens of the 

 species usually being typical. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited the following beetles; — Pseudopsis sulcata 

 (Box Hill); Afjathidlum »/^>'i«w«/, (Caterham Valley) ; Anisotoma (jrandis 

 (Box Hill); Leptinus testaceus (Burford Bridge); and Carahus auratus, 

 taken in the Borough Market. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse mentioned a remarkable instance of tenacity of 

 life observed by Dr. Percy iu a specimen of CarcuUo cleonus, which, after 

 resisting the action of a laurel-bottle, had been immersed for a few minutes 

 in benzene. The insect recovered after this treatment, and was then 

 pinned and again immersed in benzene for twenty minutes. It was found 

 alive and wriggling on the pin the following morning, when it was once 

 more put into benzene, and left immersed during the whole of one night. 

 Even after this last immersion it recovered, and was only finally killed by 

 hot water. 



Papers read, dc. 



The Piev. H. S. Gorham read a paper entitled " Materials for a Revision 

 of the Lamjnjrido'.." 



Mr. Bates, in connection with the light-emitting power of this family, 

 remarked that certain species of Lougicorns mimicked Lampyrids with great 

 exactness, the light-giving segments of the latter being perfectly represented 

 in the Longicorns, although destitute of phosphorescent power. 



