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October 4, 1870. 

 Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, 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 Royal Society',' no. 172; presented by the 

 Society. ' Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology),' nos. G4 and 65 ; by 

 the Society. ' Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club,' no. 32 ; by the 

 Club. ' The Zoologist' and ' Newman's Entomologist' for October; by the 

 Representatives of the late Edward Newman. ' The Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine' for October; by the Editors. ' Nature,' nos. 358 — 361; by the 

 Publishers. ' The Naturalist : Journal of the West Riding Consolidated 

 Naturalists' Society,' no. xv. ; by the Editor. ' A Monograph of the British 

 Species of Phsenusa ; ' by the Author, Peter Cameron, Esq. ' Description 

 of a new Species of Phasmidse ; ' 'Description of a new Species of Cetoniidse;' 

 'On the Femoral Brushes of the Mantidse and their Function (Abstract);' 

 by the Author, J. Wood-Mason, Esq. ' Proceedings of the Linnean Society 

 of New South Wales,' vol. i., part 2 ; by the Society. ' L'Abeille,' no. 170 ; 

 by the Editor. ' Annales de la Societe Entomologique, de Belgique,' tome 

 xix., fasc. 1; by the Society. ' Le Helicopsyche in Italia; Lettera agli 

 Entomologi Italiani ;' by the Author, Carl von Siebold. ' Stettiner Ento 

 mologische Zeitung,' 37 jahrgang; by the Society. ' Transactions of the 

 American Entomological Society,' vol. iii.; by the Society. 



By purchase: — ' Ueber neue indische Chernetiden,' von Ant. Stecker. 

 ' Ueber blaschenformige Sinnesorgane und eine eigenthlimliche Herzbil- 

 dung der Larve von Ptychoptera contaminata, L.,' von Carl Grobben. 



Election of a Member. 



Mons. Alfred Preudhomme de Borre, of Brussels, Secretary of the Belgian 

 Entomological Society, was balloted for and elected a Foreign Member. 



Exhibitions, <&c. 



Mr. Bond exhibited, on behalf of Mr. N. Cooke, of Liscard, near Birken- 

 head, a female variety of Hepialus humuli, pale in colour, and with the 

 usual markings ; three fine specimens of Crymodes exulis ; fifteen very fine 

 dark (some nearly black) specimens of Epunda lutulenta ; and six specimens 

 of the new Tortrix, Sericoris irriguana. All the above were taken near Loch 

 Laggan this season. 



