XXXV 



The President announced the names of the Members proposed as 

 Officers and Council for 1881, and nominated the Auditors for the accounts 

 of the present year. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited a large series of Arescus histrio, collected in 

 Peru by Mr. Buckley, and interesting as showing the extreme variability of 

 the markings on the elytra of this species. 



The Rev. H. S. Gorham remarked that he had also observed this great 

 variability, and that he possessed one specimen in which the markings were 

 unsymmetrical on the two elytra. He stated that although the markings 

 were so variable, the colour of the antennas appeared to be always constant. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse had also seen a specimen marked unsym- 

 metrically, and had likewise observed the constancy in the colour of the 

 antennae. 



Mr. T. Pi. Billups exhibited four species oi Pezomachus new to Britain, 

 viz., P. Millleri, P. juvenilis, P. intermedius, and P. incertus. He also 

 exhibited twenty species of Coleoptera found in a small parcel of corn-refuse 

 from Mr. Fitch's granaries at Maldon, viz., Calandra granaria, Linn., and 

 C. oryzcB, Linn. ; Trogosita mauritanica, Linn. ; Lamophlaus feirugineus, 

 Steph., and L. pusillus, Schon. (rare); Silvanus surinamensis, Linn.; 

 Monotonia quadrifoveolata, Aube (rare) ; Byphaa fumata, Linn. ; Ptinus 

 fur, Linn. ; Niptns hololeucus, F'ald. ; Gibbiuni scotias, Fab. ; Rhizopertha 

 pusilla, Fab. ; Alphitophagus A-pustidatus, Steph. ; Tribolium ferriigineumf 

 Fab., and T. confusum, Duval ; Latheticus oryzce, C. 0. Waterhouse (a new 

 species) ; HypophUnis dep)ressus, Fab. ; Alphitobius jiiceus, Oliv. ; Tenebrio 

 molitor, Linn., and T. obscurns, Fab. 



The President exhibited two specimens in alcohol of a species of 

 Phasmidcc forwarded by a correspondent in St. Vincent. 



Mr. W. D. Cansdale exhibited a specimen of Tlscheria gaunacella, a 

 species of Tineina, recently added to the British list, bred from Primus 

 spinosa in May, 1878 ; he also exhibited a remarkable variety of Cidaria 

 russata. 



Palmers read. 



Mr. John Scott communicated a paper " On a Collection of Hemiptera 

 from Japan." 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse read a paper entitled " Description of a new 

 species of the anomalous genus Polyctenes," and exhibited a diagram 

 illustrating the structure of this insect. 



