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Prof. Westwood directed attention to an extract from a recent Bulletin 

 of the United States Fish Commission (' Nature,' Sept. 94th, 1885), giving 

 an account of the destruction of young trout by mosquitoes. Some doubts 

 were expressed as to the correctness of the statement, but Prof. Westwood 

 said that it was beheved to be a true account by the best naturalists in the 

 States. 



A letter received by the Secretary from Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse stated 

 that a specimen of Sphinx convolvuli had been taken in the grounds of 

 the Inventions Exhibition, and another had been brought to the British 

 Museum, taken in Yorkshire. Also a letter from Mrs. Buckmaster, stating 

 that her children had taken five specimens of S. convolvuli and two of 

 Chcerocampa celerio at Ramsgate. 



Prof. Westwood made some remarks on an insect which he had been 

 investigating, with a view to preparing a paper which he hoped to offer to 

 the Society. It was Machcerota ensifera, Burm., from Ceylon, an insect 

 allied to the frog-hopper [Aphrophora), which, instead of being enclosed in 

 a liquid (cuckoo-spittle), formed a case by the rapid hardening of the liquid 

 secreted. He hoped to give a minute description very shortly. 



Mr. R. McLachlan referred to the capture of three specimens of the 

 striking neuropterous insect, Drepanopteryx pihalamoides, L., by Messrs. 

 Morton and King in Lanarkshire, last September. 



Mr. F. F. Freeman sent a communication recording the recent capture 

 of a specimen of Dauais Arcliippus, Fabr., at Plymouth. 



New Part of ' Transactions.' 

 Part III. of the ' Transactions' for 1885 was on the table. 



November 4, 1885. 

 R. M'Lachlan, Esq., F.R.S., &c.. President, in the chair. 



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

 respective donors. 



Election of Felloivs. 



Dr. C. A. Dohrn, of Stettin, and Mynheer P. C. T. Snellen, of liottcr- 

 dani, were balloted for and elected Honorary Fellows of the Society. 



Mynheer A. J. F. Fokker (Zierikzee, Holland), Mynheer J. K. H. 

 Neerwort van der Poll (103, Keizersgracht, Amsterdam), and James Cosmo 

 Melvill, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. (Kersal Cottage, Prestwich), were bylloted for 

 and elected Fellows of the Society. 



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