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type Tinea horridella, Wkr. ; Barbaroscardia, type B. fascinta, 

 Wlsm. : Odites, type 0. natalensis, Wlsm. ; Idioptenjx, type 

 CryptolecJiia obliquella, Wlsm. ; Microthauma, type M. met'il- 

 lifera, Wlsm. ; Licmocera, type L. lyonetiella, Wlsm. ; Oxy- 

 macharis, type 0. niveocervina, Wlsm. ; Micropostega, type M. 

 aneofasciata , Wlsm. Several European genera were recorded 

 as new to the African fauna. The American genera Phacasio- 

 phorn, Grote ; (Eta, Grote ; Polyhywno, Chamb. ; Strobisia, 

 Clem.; Anorthima, Clem.; He, Chamb., and Zarathra, Wkr., 

 were described as occurring in Africa. The genus Philobota, 

 Meyr., hitherto confined to the Australian region, was also 

 recorded. The Indian genus Tiinyra, Wkr., was represented 

 in Africa. XirfUyia, Wkr., was identified as a synonym of 

 Phycodes. Pohjhymno, Chamb., had been re-described as Co- 

 pocercia by Zeller. Temtupsis, Wlsm., was a synonym of 

 Cacochroa, Hein. Seventy-one species were described as new. 



December 3, 1890. 



The Right Honourable Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., 

 President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced and thanks 

 voted to the respective donors. 



Election of Fellows, 



Mr. John Gardner, of 6, Friar Terrace, Hartlepool ; and 

 Mr. Samuel James Capper, F.L.S., of Huyton Park, near 

 Liverpool, were elected Fellows. 



Exhibitions, do. 



Dr. D. Sharp exhibited specimens of Papilio polites, P. 

 erithonius, and Euplcea asela, received from Mr. J. J. Lister, 

 who had caught them on board ship when near Colombo, in 

 November, 1888. Dr. Sharp read a letter from Mr. Lister, 

 in which it was stated that from the ship hundreds of these 



