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July 6, 1887. 



Dr. David Sharp, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted 

 to the respective donors. 



Election of a Fellow. 

 The Eev. W. T. H. Newman, M.A., 11, Park Terrace, The 

 Crescent, Oxford, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Exhibtions, <&c. 



Mr. M'Lachlan remarked that at the meeting of the Society 

 in October, 188G, he exhibited a quantity of the so-called 

 "jumping seeds" from Mexico, containing larvas of <'<trp<>- 

 capsa saltitans, Westw. The seeds had long ceased to "jump," 

 which proved that the larvas were either dead, had become 

 quiescent, or had pupated; about a fortnight ago he opened 

 one of the seeds, and found therein a living pupa. On the 

 4th inst. a moth (exhibited) was produced. 



The President, on behalf of the Piev. H. S. Gorham, ex- 

 hibited the following Coleoptera, lately taken in the New 

 Forest: — Anoplodera sexguttata, Fab., wholly black variety; 

 Grammoptera analis, Fab.; Colydium elongatum, Fab.; and a 

 specimen of Tachinus elongatus, Gyll., with brownish-red 

 elytra. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Orsodacna humeralis, 

 Latr. (lineola, Panz., var.), taken by himself at Norwood: he 

 also exhibited a specimen of the same beetle taken by himself 

 fifty years ago in Coombe Wood ; during the interval he had 

 never seen it alive. 



Mr. O. T. Porritt exhibited, on behalf of Mr. N. F. Dobree, 

 of Beverley, a series of about thirty specimens of a T(f»i<>- 

 campa he had received from Hampshire, which had previously 

 been refern <1 to as a red form of T. gracilis. Mr. Dobree was 

 inclined to think they were not that species, but T. stabilis. 



Mr. A. C. Horner exhibited the following species of 

 Coleoptera from the neighbourhood of Tonbridge : — ( 't>iii/>s<>- 

 chilus palpalis, Esp. (5); Acrognathus mandibularis, Gyll. (4); 

 Homalota atrata, Mann., //. vilis, Ew, and //. difficilis, Bris. ; 



