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cussion ensued, in which Mr. Elwes, Mr. Hampson, Colonel 
Swinhoe and others took part. 
Mr. W. Bartlett Calvert communicated a paper entitled 
‘‘ New Chilian Lepidoptera.” 
Mr. J. W. Shipp communicated a paper entitled ‘On a 
New Species of the Genus Phalacrognathus.” 
April 12, 1898. 
Frepertc Mernirieitp, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted 
to the respective donors. 
Evhibitions, dc. 
Sir John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn, Bart., exhibited a 
number of specimens of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hy- 
menoptera, all caught in Glamorganshire. The Lepidoptera 
included two remarkable varieties of Vanessa io, both obtained 
from the same brood of larve, from which the usual eye-like 
spots in the hind wings were absent; varieties of 1rctia 
menthastri; a long series of melanic and other forms of 
Boarmia repandata and Tephrosia crepuscularia ; and bleached 
forms of Geometra papilionaria. The Coleoptera included 
specimens of Prionus coriarius, Pyrochroa coccinea, Otiorhynchus 
sulcatus, and Astynomus edilis, which latter Sir John Llewelyn 
stated had been handed to him by colliers, who obtained them 
from the wooden props used in the coal mines, made out of 
timber imported from the Baltic. Mr. Merrifield, Dr. Sharp, 
Mr. Bower, and Mr. Stevens made some remarks on the 
specimens. 
Sir John T. D. Llewelyn enquired whether the name of the 
moth which had a sufliciently long proboscis to fertilize the 
large Madagascan species of Orchis, Angraecum sesquipedale, 
was known. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse stated that the collections 
received at the British Museum from Madagascar had been 
examined with the view to the discovery of the species, but up 
to the present it had not been identified. 
