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serve on the Council for the ensuing year, and there being no 

 additional Fellows proposed, they were duly nominated. 



Ohltuary. 



The President announced the death of Mr. W. R. Hall, 

 late resident Librarian of the Society, and the meeting passed 

 a vote of sympathy with the family of the deceased, the 

 Treasurer being authorized to pay over to the widow the 

 balance of the testimonial fund in his hands. • 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited specimens of a new species of 

 Sagra, S. hwneraliti, Jac, from Tonkin. 



Mr. H. St. J. DoNiSTHORPE exhibited Quedius nigrocos- 

 ruleus, taken by Mr. H. C Dollman in a rabbit-hole at 

 Ditchling, Sussex, this being the fourth recorded British 

 specimen. 



Professor T. Hudson Beare exhibited a specimen of 

 Tetropium castaneiom, L., one of the Longicorns recently 

 introduced into our list. The specimen was taken at 

 Hartlepool some years ago by Mr. J. Gardner, and was 

 probably introduced, as it was found in the neighbourhood of 

 the quays, where large shipments of pit props are being 

 discharged continually. 



Mr. G. J. Arrow exhibited on behalf of the Hope Collection, 

 and in illustration of his paper read Oct. 5 last, a series 

 of specimens of Passalidte collected by Burchell in Brazil, and 

 read the following observations, found by Prof. Poulton 

 among the MS. note-books of this traveller and referi"ing to 

 these specimens : — " 114:2. Passalus. Found under large chips 

 of wood in the forest. In the manner of Carabi, but it does 

 not run a fourth so quickly. Judging from large holes in these 

 chips, its larva; are bred there. On taking it in the hand, it 

 makes a faint [sound] between a hissing and a squeaking ; 

 like the Lamipe." Dec. 9, 1826. At Rio las Pedras, Cubatau. 

 This is by far the earliest record of the possession by these 

 beetles of vocal powers, the instruments of which have only 

 recently been discovered by Mr. Babb of Massachusetts. 



Mr. Arrow called attention to the remarkable fact that the 



