Paper read, <fr. 



Mr. M'Laclilau directed attention to an article, by M. Flamiuio Baiuli, 

 m the ' Petitcs Xouvelles Entomulogiqucs,' respecting the habits of Cychrus 

 cylindricollis, which he had taken on Monte Codeuo feeding on the body of 

 a snail [Helix frigida), into the shell of which the beetle was enabled to 

 thrust its head and long narrow prothorax. Some interesting remarks 

 were made by Mr. Bates and others on the peculiar structure and habits of 

 the insect, which appeared to have been found only on a very sterile portion 

 of the plateau of the mountain, and in no other part. 



A valuable paper was communicated by Dr. D. Sharp, entitled " Con- 

 tributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley — (Staphylinidre)." Of 

 this important group of Coleoptera 487 species were enumerated as inhabiting 

 the valley, of which 463 were described as new — suggesting forcibly how 

 little is really known of the Staphylinida; of Tropical America. Dr. Sharp 

 also stated that he had devised a method of covering and hermetically 

 sealing the type specimens, which, he believed, would accomplish their 

 almost complete preservation, and that he hoped soon to be able to publish 

 a description of the method. The author concluded with remarking on 

 the great importance of certain sexual characters in distinguishing the 

 species. 



March I, 187(i. 

 Profebsor J. 0. Westwood, M.A., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Lihrary. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' vol. xxiv., no. 100 ; presented 

 by the Society. * Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,' 1871, 

 parts 1 and 2 ; 1872, parts 1 and 2 ; 1873, parts 1 and 2 ; 1874, parts 1 

 and 2 ; 1875, parti; by the Society. 'The Journal of the Linnean 

 Society — Zoology,' vol. xii., nos. 60 — 02 ; by the Society. ' The Naturalist,' 

 vol. i., no. 7 ; by the West Riding Consolidated Naturalists' Society. 

 'The Zoologist' for March; by the Editor. 'Newman's Entomologist' 

 for March; by the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' 

 for March ; by the Editors. ' Journal of the (Juekett IMicroscopical 

 Club' for January; by the Club. 'Canadian Entomologist,' vol. vii., 

 no. 12; by the Editor. 'Transactions of the American Entomo- 

 logical Society ' for March ; by the Society. ' The American Naturalist,' 

 vol. X., nos. 1 and 2 ; by the Editor. ' L'Abeille,' tome xiii., livr. 23 ; by 

 the Editor. ' Mittbeilungen dcr Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gestll- 

 bchaft,' vol. iv , heft 8; by tliu Editor. ' Dricfc an C. Th. E. v. Siebuld 



