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collector to inform him that three specimens of the rare Pissodes 

 Fahricii have been taken in Dalmeny Park near South Queensferry, 

 by Mr. Robert Northmore Greville, two last year and one this." 



Mr. Ingpen exhibited a number of varieties of the common 

 Bedeguar upon the wild rose, also leaves of the Chrysanthemum 

 mined by the larvae of a species of Tephrites, and stated that this 

 insect confines its attacks to the lower leaves, and not to those of 

 the younger upper branches, thus occasioning but little injury to 

 the plant. 



Mr. Hatches exhibited a drawing of a singular variety o£ Hip- 

 parchia Hyperanthus, and Mr. Hope a large species of Phrynus 

 from Sierra Leone. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited nine species of Paussidce, and four 

 of D'lopsis from the Collection of Mr. Westermann of Copenhagen, 

 (since described by him) ; likewise some singular Carabidce from 

 New Holland, and a specimen of Hypocephalus armatus. 



The following memoirs were read : 



" Notes upon the Habits of various Species of British Ants." 

 By Mr. F. Smith. 



" Description of a new Species o{ My gale from Ionia." By S. 

 S. Saunders, Esq. 



October 7</«, 1839. 

 The Rev. F. VV. Hope, President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Part 4 of an Introduction to the Modern Classification of In- 

 sects. By J. O. Westwood, the Author thereof. 



No. Ji't of the Magazine of Natural History. New Series. By 

 the Editor. 



Nos. 5 and 6 of British Coleoptera delineated. By Messrs. 

 Spry and Shuckard. 



John Beadnall, Esq., of Tottenham, was ballotted for and 

 elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 

 Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited a species of Julus, which had 

 been very destructive in his garden at Wandsworth, especially de- 

 vouring the young shoots of heartsease just below the surface. 



