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Election of a Member. 

 Mr, Lionel de Niceville (Calcutta) was balloted for and elected a Foreign 

 Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited a number of specimens of the smaller 

 Hvmenoptera mounted on discs of microscopic glass, thus enabling their 

 under sides to be readily examined. 



The Eev. H. S. Gorham exhibited a remarkable variety of a Coccinella, 

 marked with four ocellated spots only, received from Mr. A. E. Hodgson, 

 of Coleford, Gloucestershire ; although intermediate between C. ohlongo- 

 guttata, L., and C. ocellata, L., Mr. Gorham did not believe it to be a 

 hybrid. Several members remarked on the really small amount of variation 

 to be found in this group, although commonly believed to be variable. 



Mr. Waterhouse said only two British species could be said to vary to 

 any appreciable extent, viz., C. variabilis, L., and C. blpunctata, L. There 

 were several remarkable varieties of C. septempunctata, L., in Stephens' 

 Collection, but he (Mr. Waterhouse) had never yet met with one. In 

 Europe it does not vary, but in India specimens are not uncommonly found 

 in which the spots coalesce. 



Mr. Pascoe remarked, however, that he knew of no family of Coleoptera 

 in which there were so many synonyms. 



Mr. R. M'Lachlan exhibited his collection of British Trichoptera, 

 contained in five cabinet drawers, and made some remarks on the more 

 interesting forms. He said this collection represented over twenty years' 

 continuous work, and apropos of the President's remarks in his last Address, 

 he might state that the locality of capture for each specimen was very readily 

 ascertained. His only regret was that the specimens had not been pinned 

 with long pins instead of the short ones in general use. 



Papers read. 

 Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a continuation of his " Heterocerous 

 Lepidoptera collected in Chili by Thomas Edmonds, Esq." Forty-five 

 NoctucB were noticed in the present paper, twenty of which are described as 

 new to Science. 



Neiv Pali of 'Transactions.' 

 Part I. of tlie ' Transactions' for 1882 was on the tal)le. 



