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Nymphalideous Butterflies," and "^Ou Cctonia Aurata and Pwtaetia 

 Bensoniy Specimens and drawings, shos-viug the specific distinctness of 

 the insects in question, were exhibited in illustration of the last-named 

 paper. 



New Part of ' Transactions.' 

 Part I. of the ' Transactions' for 1878 was on the table. 



May 5, 1880. 



H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 

 Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 respective donors. 



Election of a Member. 

 Mr. Peter Inchbald, of The Lodge, Hovingham, York, a former 

 Member, was ballotted for and re-elected into the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a very pale specimen of Nyssia his2)iclaria, 

 taken at light at Cheshunt Station. 



Mr. M. J. Walhouse exhibited some Geodephagous beetles which were 

 found only on the summits of some of the highest mountains in India. 



Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited a long series of specimens of the Mada- 

 gascar Homopteron Ftijelus Goudoti, Beun., to illustrate the extreme 

 variability of the species. The series showed a gradatiou from melanic 

 forms having the tegmina and pronotum black, to an albinic variety in 

 which the tegmina and pronotum were pale luteous. One specimen 

 was asymmetrical in the markings of the tegmina, thus possessing the 

 characters of two varietal forms, as shown in the accompanying woodcut. 



Mr. Distant observed that he had found this not at all an exceptional 

 occurrence in extremely variable species of the order EhijncJiota. Like 

 other species of this and allied genera, P. Goudoti in the larval condition 



