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collection attached, the species being in most cases well-known forms which 

 had long been properly described or figured by other entomologists. 



A discussion relating to M. Andre's practice then took place, in the 

 course of which remarks were made by Mr. M'Lachlan, Mr. Distant, and 

 other Members, the general opinion being that such a mode of describing 

 genera and species was most derogatory to Science, and that it was much to 

 be deplored that the Society had not the power of enforcing a rule that such 

 descriptions should be ignored by systematists. 



November 3, 1880. 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., &c., 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 Members. 



Mr. Edward Meyrick, of Ramsbury, Hungerford, Wilts, was ballotted 

 for and elected an ordinary Member. Capt. Thomas Broun, of Auckland, 

 New Zealand, a former Subscriber, was ballotted for and elected an 

 ordinary Member. Dr. E. Brandt, President of the Ptussian Entomological 

 Society, &c., of the Imperial Medico-Ghirurgical Academy, St. Petersburg, 

 was ballotted for and elected a Foreign Member. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Sydney Olliffe, 

 a pair of dwarf specimens of Ejnone vespertaria, taken at Arundel. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited some very curious galls on a broad-leaved 

 Euc(dyptus from Australia. They were of large size, very hard, with four 

 longitudinal keels, each of which was prolonged into a long cornute 

 appendage. The maker of the galls was a Lepidopterous larva, perhaps 

 pertaining to the PymlidcB. When opened the galls gave out a very 

 powerful odour, somewhat resembling that of Ribes nigrum, and in all those 

 opened there was what appeared to be an imperfectly-formed pupa of a moth 

 much distended, occupying the whole of the cavity, and always crammed 

 with the developed pupae of a Hymeuopterous parasite of the family 

 Chalcidid(E. No gall presented any opening whence either moth or parasite 

 could have escaped ; but on the crown, between the four horns or processes, 

 there was a very minute orifice, which probably served to admit air, other- 

 wise scarcely obtainable through the thick and hard walls of the galls. 



Mr. M'Lachlan then mentioned that he had received a letter from 

 Mr. D. G. Rutherford, from Camaroons, AVest Africa, in which the writer 



