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ensis, Sagra opaca, Blepharida ornaticollis, B. laterimaculata, 
Mesodonta submetallica, Schematizella viridis, Spilocephalus viri- 
dipennis, Apophylia smaragdipennis, and Aethonea variabilis. 
Mons. Alfred Wailly exhibited a large number of species of 
Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, recently received by him from 
Assam, from the West Coast of Africa, and from South Africa; 
also a large and brilliant locust from Accra, West Coast of 
Africa. He also exhibited eggs and living larve of Bombyx 
cytherea. He stated that ova of B. cyther@a sent to him on 
the 16th of April arrived on the 8th of May; fifty-seven 
hatched on the day the box arrived, and a batch of forty eggs, 
all laid on the same leaf, hatched on the 18th of May, ten 
days later than the others. The larve, after being offered 
various kinds of foliage, were ultimately fed on plum alone. 
They were very slow in growing, and, with few exceptions, they 
died. The larve of the batch of forty all hatched on the 
morning of the 18th of May; they reached their second stage 
on the 5th of June, and the third stage on the 26th of June. 
The larve in the first stage are red, with black shining head, 
black legs, and black tubercles round each segment; second 
stage, the larve are of a light buff-colour, head black, 
tubercles black, covered with white hairs. In the third 
stage the larve are of a light red, but in other respects 
the third stage resembles the second stage. 
August 1, 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 a Fellow. 
The Rey. A. Walton Lewis, B.A., of Kamastone, Cape 
Colony, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, F.R.S., exhibited a large number 
of species of Lepidoptera and Diptera recently collected for 
him in Mexico by Mr. Herbert Smith. 
