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von R. V. Willemoes-Suhm,' nos. ii. — vi. ; Ly Prof. Siebold. ' Annales de la 

 Societe Entomologique de Belgique,' tome xviii., fasc. iii. ; by the Society, 



Election of Members. 



Dr. G. Kraatz, President of the Entomological Society of Berlin, and 

 Mr. Clemens Miiller, also of Berlin, were balloted for and elected Foreign 

 Members ; and Mr. Oliver E. Janson, hitherto a Subscriber, was elected an 

 Ordinary Member. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited two grasshoppers in an undeveloped state, 

 taken by himself in the Rhone Valley, in copula — a peculiarity which was 

 frequently noticed amongst the Hemiptera. He also exhibited a remarkable 

 moth from Madagascar belonging to the family Uraniidje, bearing a very 

 striking resemblance to a Papilio, except that it had the antennae of a moth. 



Mr. Edmund Y. Western exhibited some Coleoptera, taken chiefly in 

 Switzerland. 



Mr. W. Arnold Lewis exhibited a specimen of Argynnis Dia taken in 

 England by Mr. Wallace A. Smith, whom he presented to the Meeting. 

 Mr. Smith stated, in answer to various enquiries by the President, that he 

 captured the specimen himself in the year 1872, while sunning itself on 

 some palings near his own house at Worcester Park, Surrey, and it was on 

 an exceedingly hot day, though he did not remember the month. He had 

 only commenced collecting insects in the preceding summer, and it was the 

 first Fritillary he had ever had in his possession, and the specimen had 

 never been out of his possession since. He was unable to identify the 

 species at the time, and was not aware of the rarity of the insect until he 

 showed it to Mr. Lewis. The specimen was handed to the Members and 

 pronounced to be undoubtedly an Argynnis Dia. Mr. Lewis remarked that 

 he had seen so many attacks in past publications on those who asserted 

 that Dia w-as a British species, that he was very desirous that the testimony 

 connected with tlie present capture should be recorded. 



The President noticed a paragraph in 'Newman's Entomologist' stating 

 that the collection of butterflies and moths formed by the late Mr. Henry 

 Doubleday was now being exhibited at the Bethnal Green Museum ; and 

 he hoped that special care would be taken of it, as it was by far the most 

 valuable collection of British Lepidoptera in existence. 



Mr. Dunning exhibited a pair of Caradrina morpheus taken in copula in 

 the Regent's Park, the male being dead, and, althougli still attached to the 

 female, several eggs were laid and larvae hatched therefrom in the box in 

 which they were placed. 



Mr. Bates read a letter from Mr. Trovey Blackmore to Mr. M'Lachlan, 

 stating that he was much interested in observing a notice in the ' Pro- 

 ceedings ' of this Society respecting the habits of Cychrus cylindricollis, 



