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September 1, 1886. 

 Robert AIcLachlan, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Donations to the Library were announcetl, and thanks voted to 

 the respective donors. 



Election of Fellmvs. 

 The Rev. Professor Dickson, D.D., of Glasgow University, 

 Mr. P. Cowell, of Liverpool (formerly Subscribers), Mr. A. 0. 

 Walker, F.L.S., of Colwyn Bay, North Wales, and Mr. Lyddon 

 Surrage, of Hertford College, Oxford, were elected Fellows. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



The President remarked, with regard to the gnats from the 

 Kent Waterworks, exhibited at the last meeting, that Professor 

 Westwood had since informed Mr. Douglas that they were only 

 Culex pijriens. 



Mr. Slater exhibited certain parasites found on the body of a 

 larva of Smerinthus tilicc, which Mr. Waterhouse believed to be 

 Uropoda vegetans, a species of Acarics. 



Mr. W. Warren exhibited the following Lepidoptera, viz., 

 Eupitheciafraxinata, caught in Regent's Park ; E. innotata (Hiib.), 

 bred from Artemisia maritima ; a variety of E. satyrata ; a 

 Gelechia, caught in Wickeu Fen twenty years ago by Mr. Bond, 

 and believed to be a new species; Gelechia fumatella (Dgl.) or 

 celerella (Stu.) from Hayling Island ; G. vilella (ZelL), bred from 

 larvae collected on the Essex coast on mallow ; Lithocolletis 

 scabiosella (Dgl.) bred from larvae found near Croydon; and 

 Catoptria parvulana (Wlk.) bred by Mr. Vine, of Brighton, from 

 Serratula tinctoria. He also exhibited larvae of Gelechia viileUa. 



Mr. South exhibited specimens of Dicroranij^ha distinctana 

 (Heinmann). He said that the first example in the series (one 

 of two captured in North Devonshire, 1881), having been iden- 

 tified by Mr. C. G. Barrett as D. distinctana (Heinmann), the 

 occurrence of the insect in Britain had been recorded in the Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. xviii. 278, and Entom. xv. 110. In May of the present 

 year Mr. South found, in some shoots of Chrysanthemum leucan- 

 themum sent him from North Devon, several larv® which from 



