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Prof. MeldoLa exhibited a male specimen of Polyonmatus 

 dorilis, Hufn., a common European and Asiatic species, which 

 had been taken at Lee, near Ilfracombe, in August, 1887, by 

 Mr Latter, then Demonstrator in the Laboratory of the 

 Deputy Linacre Professor at Oxford, and now Science Master 

 at the Charter-House School. At the time of its capture 

 Mr. Latter supposed the specimen to be a hybrid between 

 Polyommatus phlmts and one of the " Blues," and had only 

 recently identified it as belonging to a well-known species. 

 Mr. Stainton, Mr. Jenner Weir, and Colonel Swinhoe made 

 some remarks on the specimen, and commented on the 

 additions to the list of butterflies captured in the United 

 Kingdom which had been made of late years. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited, and made remarks on, 

 five specimens of Athous rhomhcus, 01., bred from larva3 and 

 pupa? recently collected by himself in the New Forest. 



The Eev. Dr. Walker exhibited a large collection of Coleo- 

 ptera which he had recently made in Iceland. The follow- 

 ing genera, amongs others, were represented, viz. — Patrobits, 

 Nebti,a, Byrrhus, Aphodius, Philonthus, Barynotus, Chrysomela, 

 Arjahus, Creophilus, and Carahus. Mr. Champion, Dr. Sharp, 

 and the Chairman made some remarks on the collection. 



Mr. Elwes exhibited three species of the genus Atossa, 

 Moore, three of the genus PJlcysma, Butl., and three of the 

 genus Campy iotes, West., — all from the Himalayas and North- 

 eastern Asia. The object of the exhibition was to illustrate 

 the remarkable differences of venation in these closely allied 

 forms of the same family. Colonel Swinhoe, Mr. Warren, 

 Mr. Moore, and others took part in the discussion which 

 ensued. 



Paper read. 

 Mr. Crowley read a paper entitled "On some new species 

 of African Diurnal Lepidoptera." In this paper the author 

 described five new species of butterflies from the Cameroons, 

 Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Gaboon and Accra ; and enume- 

 rated seven new species recently described by Miss Sharpe in 

 the * Annals and Magazine of Natural History. The paper 

 was illustrated by two plates of fifteen figures. 



