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Mr. A. Eland Shaw exhibited the specimen of (Jonicephdlus mentioned 

 at the last meeting as having been talvcn at Biimingham. It had since been 

 shown to M. de Saussure, who did not recognise the species, but believed 

 it to be Australian ; the captors, however, supposed it to be South 

 American. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited a melanic variety of Ayrotls ohelisca, Hiibn., 

 taken at Southport; also, on behalf of Mr. F. N. Dobree, a melanic form 

 of Jjuperina testacea, Hiibn., from Sligo, and a very dark Agrotis corticea, 

 Hiibn. 



Mr. Dunning read the following — 



Note on the Election of Honorary Members. 



At the first General Meeting of the Society, held on the 22ud May, 

 1833 (misprinted 1834, in the 'Journal of Proceedings,' p. i), the Rev. 

 William Kirby was appointed Honorary President; and by the original 

 Bye-Laws, adopted at the meeting held on the 4th November, 1833 

 (' Proceedings,' p. ii), it was declared that " the Society consists of British 

 and Foreign Ordinary Members, the number of whom shall be unlimited, 

 and of Foreign Honorary Members, whose number shall not exceed ten." 

 It was also enacted that " No resident in Great Britain can be an Honorary 

 Member, except the Honorary President, the Rev. Wm. Kirby, A.M., 

 F.R.S., &c."; but at the very meeting by which this Bye-Law was adopted 

 William Spence, Esq., F.R.S., &c., was elected an Honorary English 

 Member. 



After the death of both Kirby and Spence it was proposed to repeal this 

 enactment, so as to render residents in the United Kingdom eligible for 

 Honorary Membership; but the proposal was rejected (Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 1803, p. 191). 



Tlie rule now stands that " No resident in the United Kingdom shall 

 be an Honorary Member"; and that "the number of Honorary Members 

 shall not exceed ten." 



From time to time lists of the members for the time being of the 

 Society have been printed ; the earlier lists did not give the date of election 

 of any of the members; since 1850 this has been supplied, in the case of 

 Ordinary Members ; but for some reason, or no reason, the hitherto-printed 

 Lists have omitted to give the date of election of our Honorary Members. 

 My attention was called to this matter by the mistake in Prof. Westwood's 

 obituary notice of Milne-Edwards (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxii. 90), giving 1852 as 

 the date of his election as Honorary Member, instead of 1843 ; and as tlie 

 published 'Proceedings' of the Society do not supply the information, 

 I have thought it worth while to prepare a complete List of our Honoraiy 

 Members, with the dates of their election and death, showing the order of 

 succession from the foundation of the Society to the present time. 



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