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May 3, 187G. 

 Sir Sidney Smith Saundkrs, C.M.G., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — ' Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society,' 

 1875, part 4 ; presented hy the Society. ' The Naturalist : Journal of the 

 West Riding Consolidated Naturalists' Society,' no. x., for May ; by the 

 Society, ' The Zoologist' for May ; by the Editor. ' Newman's Entomo- 

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

 for May ; by the Editors. ' Nature,' nos. 330 to 339, for April ; by the 

 Publishers. ' The American Naturalist,' vol. x., nos. 3 and 4 ; by the 

 Editor. 'L'Abeille,' nos. 170 and 171; by the Editor. 'Bulletin de la 

 Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 1875, no. 3 ; by the Society. 

 ' Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift,' 1875, Heft, ii., and 1876, Heft. i. ; 

 by the Society. ' A Series of Papers on Tenthredinidse and other Hymen- 

 optera, extracted from the Proceedings of the Natural History Society of 

 Glasgow;' by the Author, Peter Cameron, jun. ' Stettiner Entomologische 

 Zeitung,' 1876, 1 — 6; by the Berlin Society. 



By purchase : — ' Entomologischer Kalender fur Deutschland, Oesterreich 

 und die Schweiz auf das Jahr 1876.' ' Opuscula Entomologica edidit 

 C. G. Thomson,' fasciculus septimus. 



Election of a Member. 

 M. Jules Lichtenstein, of Montpellier, was balk)ted for and elected a 

 Foreign Member. 



Exhibitions, ^c. 

 The Rev. J. Hellins sent for exhibition various British Lepidoptera 

 recently submitted to M. Guenee for his opinion and determination. The 

 collection included a dark variety of Acronycta myricoe from Mr. Birchall ; 

 certain Acidaliae, sent by Mr, Hellins and Mr. G. F. Mathew, apparently 

 to be referred to A. mancuniata ; several extraordinary aberrations referred 

 to Melanippe rivata, Oporabia, sp.?, Coremia ferrugata, &c., from Mr. Dale 

 and Mr. Mathew ; an example of Polia Chi, var. olivacea, from Major Hut- 

 chinson ; several Eupitheciae, from Dr. Buchanan White, including the var. 

 oxydata of E. subfulvata; and an insect which Dr. White proposed to name 

 septentrionata, not known to M. Guenee. The most important of all was a 

 Noctua bearing some resemblance to Xanthia circellaris (ferrugiuea), not 

 known to M. Guenee, taken at Queenstown, flying over bramble-blossoms, 

 in July or August, 1873, by Mr. Mathew. Concerning this insect it was 



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