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Exhibitions. 
Mr. 8. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Cherocampa celerio, 
in very fine condition, captured at light, in Hastings, on the 
26th September last, by Mr. Johnson. 
Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited specimens of Gibbiwm scotias 
and Pentarthrum huttoni, taken by Mr. Rye in a cellar in 
Shoe Lane. He stated that the Gibbium scotias lived in a 
mixture of beer and sawdust in the cellar, and that when this 
was cleaned out the beetles disappeared. The Pentarthrum 
huttoni lived in wood in the cellar. He also exhibited Mezium 
affine, taken by himself in a granary in Holborn. 
Mr. Mchachlan exhibited a large Noctuid moth* (Hrebus 
odora, Li.), which had been placed in his hands by Mr. kh. H. 
Scott, F.R.S., of the Meteorological Office. It was stated to 
haye been taken at sea in the South Atlantic, in about lat. 
28° §., long. 26° W. Colonel Swinhoe and the President 
made some remarks on the species, and on the migration 
of many species of Lepidoptera. 
Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited larve and pupe of 
Rhynchophorus palmarum, ., the Gru-gru Worm of the West 
Indian Islands, which is eaten as a delicacy by the Negroes 
and by the French Creoles of Martinique. He stated that 
the existence of post-thoracic stigmata in the larva of R. 
~ cruentatus had been mentioned by Candéze, but denied by 
Leconte and Horn. They were certainly present in the larva 
of R. palmarum, but were very minute. He also exhibited a 
piece of a drawing-board, showing extensive injury by longi- 
corn larve during a period extending over seven years. 
Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited two varieties of Arctia lubrici- 
peda from York; an olive-banded specimen of Bombyx quercus 
from Huddersfield; and a small melanie specimen of Melanippe 
hastata from Wharneliffe Wood, Yorkshire. 
Mr. H. Goss exhibited a few species of Lepidoptera, 
Coleoptera, Hemiptera, and Neuroptera, sent to him by 
Major G. H. Leathem, of the 31st Regiment, who had 
collected them, last June and July, whilst on a shooting ex- 
pedition in Kashmere territory. Some of the specimens were 
* T am indebted to Mr. Hamilton Druce for the name of the 
species.—H. G, 
