( xviii ) 



was pointed out, and the author showed briefly that the theory 

 on which Mons. Des Gozis's system was based was as unsound 

 as the practice itself was objectionable. Considerable discussion 

 followed the reading of this paper, in which the Rev. W. W. 

 Fowler, Mr. Waterhouse, Mr. M'Lachlan, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Pascoe, 

 and Mr. Dunning took part. The last-named gentleman said that 

 the discussion of the evening reminded him of a very similar 

 discussion on the application of the law of priority to genera which 

 took place at a meeting of the Society nearly twenty years ago.* 

 The project was then condemned as unanimously as it had 

 been to-night; and he trusted that entomologists would hear 

 no more of it. 



May 5, 1886. 



Prof. J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., Hon. Life-President, in 

 the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted 

 to the respective donors. 



Election of Fellows. 

 The Piev. E. N. Bloomfield, M.A. (formerly a Subscriber). 

 Mr. Frederick Fitch (formerly a Subscriber), Mr. A. J. Rose, and 

 Mr. William E. Nicholson were elected Fellows. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a large lepidopterous larva which 

 he had received some years ago from the late Andrew Swanzy, 

 who had obtained it in Western Africa ; it was about four inches 

 long, and was furnished with six large spines on each segment 

 (except the first), arranged in two dorsal and four lateral rows ; 

 the dorsal spines were about one-third of an inch in length, the 

 lateral were shorter. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a number of Coleoptera recently obtained 

 in the Isle of Wight, including Ajiion Sorhi. 



Mr. Crowley exhibited four specimens of Leto Venus, a large 

 moth belonging to the family Hepialida from Natal. 



* See Proc. Ent. See. 1868, pp. xlii — xlvii ; and " The Genera of 

 Coleoptera treated chronologically (17:5 "> — 1801)," by the late Mr. G. It. 

 Crotch, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 41. 



