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Mr. Druce exhibited a selection from a fine collection of Diurnal Lepi- 
doptera from Santarem, Brazil. 
The President exhibited a nest of Polistes gallicus, taken on the 
Esplanade at Corfu, of which the cells were partly constructed with 
coloured paper taken from some play-bills posted in the vicinity, as alluded 
to in his Anniversary Address, delivered at the last meeting. 
Mr. F. Smith remarked that specimens of Colletes cunicularia, Linn. | 
(C. hirta, St. Fargeau) had been captured hitherto only in the Isle of Wight 
and near Liverpool, and that a number of specimens having been forwarded — 
to him from the latter place, he had transported them to a suitable locality _ 
at Shirley Common in 18738, and that he had reason to believe that he had — 
succeeded in establishing a colony there, as the insect had been taken near — 
the same spot in 1874 by Mr. d’Arcy Power. 
Papers read, dc. 
A paper was communicated by Mr. A. G. Butler on the Rhopalocera of 
Australia. 
A paper was read by Mr. W. Ammold Lewis, entitled “On Entomological 
Nomenclature and the Rule of Priority. 
The President nominated Messrs. Dunning, Pascoe and Jenner Weir as 
Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. 
February 15, 1875. 
Sir Sipnny Smiru SaunpeErs, C.M.G., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ no. 157; presented by the 
Society. ‘L’Abeille,’ tome xi., livr.2; by the Editor. 
Election of Member. 
Frederick Henry Ward, Esq., of Springfield, Tooting, was balloted for 
and elected an Ordinary Member. 
Exhibitions, éc. 
Mr. Phipson exhibited a singular variety of Strenia clathrata from 
Basingstoke, the wings being nearly unicolorous (fuscous), with a few 
pale spots. 
