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by the Editor, M. Guerin-Mencville. 'The Zoologist' for June; by the Editor. 

 ' The Journal of the Society of Arls ' for May ; by the Society. ' The Literary Ga- 

 zette' for May; by the Editor. ' Entomologiska Anleckningar under en Resa i 

 Sodra Soerige ar 1854,' af Ang. Emil Holniaren ; by the Author. ' The Entomolo- 

 gist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 6, 7, 8 and 9 ; by the Editor, H. T. Stainton, Esq. 

 'A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths,' No. 4, by H. T. Stainton; by the 

 Author. ' List of the Specimens of Lepidoplerous Insects in the Collection of the 

 British Museum,' Part VII. Lepidoptera Heterocera ; by the Author, Francis Walker, 

 Esq., F.L.S. 



Resignation of Officers. 



The President announced that in consequence of the resignation of Mr. Pascoe, 

 as a member of the Council of the Society, and of Mr. Douglas, of the office of Se- 

 cretary, the Council, in conformity with the By-laws, recommended Mr. Janson to fill 

 both vacancies, and that the ordinary meeting in July next would be made special for 

 the purposes of the election. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen of Biston hirtarius, having the wings and abdomen 

 of the female, but the antenna were both deeply pectinated, that on the right side as 

 much so as in the male insect : this singular monstrosity was taken by Mr. Mitford in 

 the Regent's Park, in April last. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited recently hatched larvae of Petasia nubeculosa, Notodonta 

 carmelita and N. dictseoides, the first-named species from eggs sent from Perthshire 

 by Mr. Foxcroft, the others from eggs laid by specimens taken by Mr. Stevens at 

 Addinglou Park during the past month. 



Mr. S. Stevens also exhibited a box of insects lately sent home by Mr. Bates from 

 Ega, Upper Amazons, containing, amongst other fine species, Papilio Pausanias, Cal- 

 lithea Batesii and Haetera Andromeda, also Megacephala Klugii and Megacephala 

 n. s., together with a remarkable species of Cicada. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited Cryptocephalus Coryli, taken at West Wickham Wood, 

 May 29th ; also Lebia Crux-minor, taken by Mr. Hemmings at Holme Bush, near 

 Brighton, May 25th ; Endomychus coccineus, taken from a dead beech tree, by Mr. 

 G. Harding, at Stapleton, near Bristol; and Platyrhinus latirostris and Biphyllus lu- 

 natus, from Fungi at the same place. 



Mr. Douglas also exhibited the case-bearing larva of an apparently new species of 

 Coleophora, found by Mr. Wailes, of Newcastle, feeding on Genista anglica. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited Platyrhinus latirostris, received from Mr. Foxcroft, in 

 Perthshire, where it appeared to have been met with in abundance. 



Mr. Westwood wished the Fungi in which this species was found to be examined 

 for the larva, which is yet unknown. 



Mr. Smith also read an extract from a letter received by him from a correspondent 

 at Bristol, who stated that a London collector had recently taken five new species of 

 bees in that neighbourhood, which he had sold for £\ each. 



Mr. S. Stevens stated that he took a singular larva on Slatice Limonium, at Sheer- 

 ness, two years ago, which produced Agdisles Bennettii, Curt. On the 25th ult. he 

 found four more nearly full-fed larva3 at the same place, and read the following descrip- ' 

 tion of the larva and pnpa, of which ho also exhibited a drawing ; — 



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