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is very rarely that such a striking example of Nature's 

 wonderful counterbalancing powers is discovered." 



Mr. A. G. Butler contributed a paper "On the species of 

 the Lepidopterous genus Euchromia, with descriptions of new 

 species in the collection of the British Museum." 



Lord Walsingham communicated the following "Note," 

 substituting the generic name Homonymus for the generic 

 name Ankistrophorus used in his " Kevision of the genera 

 Acrohphus and Anaphora." 



" Homonymus. 

 'OfJLu»v[xo<;= homonymous. 

 = § Ankistrophorus, Wlsni., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1887, p. 146. 

 Type. Ankistrophorus corrientis, Wlsm. 

 The generic name Ankistrophorus, used on pp. 140, 146, 

 and 172, &c, in my Kevision of the genera Acrohphus and 

 Anaphora, is found to be preoccupied by the more correctly- 

 spelt name Ancistrophora, Schin. (in the order of Diptera). 

 I am therefore desirous to correct this error by substituting 

 for Ankistrophorus the generic name Homonymus, to be used 

 throughout the paper, and in all references to this genus. 

 The name is calculated to recall the circumstances under 

 which such correction has been made." 



December 7, 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 Fellows. 

 Mr. C. E. Stanley-Phillips, of Shooter's Hill; Mr. H. W. 

 Barker, of Peckham; and Herr E. G. Honrath, of Berlin, 

 were elected Fellows. 



Exhibtions, dc. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited specimens of Cicadetta hcema- 

 toid.es from the New Forest, and remarked that he believed 

 they were found nowhere else in England ; that usually 



