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May 2, 1888. 
Dr. Davin Suarp, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted 
to the respective donors. 
Election of Fellows. 
Major J. W. Yerbury, R.A., of the Army and Navy Club, 
Pall Mall, S.W.; and Mr. P. W. Mackinnon, of the Old 
Brewery, Masuri, Western Himalayas, India, were elected 
Fellows. 
Exhibitions, de. 
Dr. P. B. Mason exhibited an hermaphrodite specimen of 
Saturnia carpint from Lincoln, and another specimen of the 
same species with five wings, bred at Tenby. 
Mr. Jacoby exhibited specimens of Chrysomela japana, 
collected by Mr. J. H. Leech in Japan, and called attention 
to a sexual structure in the middle of the abdominal segment. 
Mr. Adkin exhibited a variety of Hubolia bipunctaria, taken 
at Box Hill, in July, 1886. 
Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited, for Dr. Livett, a curious dis- 
coloured female specimen of Ornithoptera minos, Cramer. 
Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. W. Denison-Roebuck, a 
number of specimens of an exotic species of Bee obtained by 
the Rev. W. Fowler, of Liversedge, from split logwood. The 
cells or pouches were very irregular and rough, and altogether 
unlike those in the ‘‘comb”’ of any known British species of 
Bee or Wasp. 
Dr. J. W. Ellis exhibited a number of specimens and 
drawings of Aphodius melanostictus, Schmidt, and of Aphodius 
inquinatus, F. 
Papers read, 
Dr. Ellis read the following paper: ‘On the British speci- 
mens of (so-called) Aphodius melanostictus, Sclmidt”’ :— 
On the last page of the fifteenth volume of the ‘ Hntomolo- 
gists’ Monthly Magazine’ Mr. EK. C. Rye introduces, as new 
to the British insect fauna, an Aphodius under the name of 
melanostictus, Schup. (= Schmidt, Kr.), specimens of which 
