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Election of a Subscriber. 



John Sang, Esq., High Kow, Darlington, was balloted for and elected a Sub- 

 scriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Bolt, a specimen of Drepana Sicula, taken 

 at Leigh Wood, near Bristol, in June last: there had previously only been one known 

 British specimen, taken in the same locality many years since by Mr, Mitforcl, and 

 now in the collection of the Rev. H. Burney. 



Mr. Hunter exhibited Spilodes palealis and Trochilium Chrysidiforme, taken near 

 Folkestone in July last ; also a specimen of Eriopus Lalreillii, a Noctua new to Britain, 

 which he had recently bred from a larva believed to have Ijeen taken at Black Park, 

 and specimens of the summer brood of Eiinomos illustraria, bred from eggs laid by 

 the vernal female, 



Mr. Weir exhibited some specimens of Macaria notataria, in all of which the under 

 wings were more or less imperfectly developed, to which malformation he had noticed 

 this species was particularly subject, especially this season; one specimen, in which 

 the under wings were merely rudimentary, flew with as much apparent ease as those 

 in which they were perfectly developed. 



Mr. S, Stevens exhibited Harpalyce Galiata, in which one under wing was quite 

 wanting. Mr. Bond observed that such malformation was not at all uncommon 

 among the Geomelridae, Mr. Smith remarked that in the female of the common wasp 

 the wings were frequently not developed at all, 



Mr. Stevens exhibited two specimens of Deilephila Galii, bred from larvae taken 

 last autumn by Mr. Smith near Deal, and some Tortrices resembling female varieties 

 of Lozotsenia Viburnana, which he believed might prove a distinct species ; also four 

 specimens of Trochilium Chrysidiforme and a specimen of a new British species 

 of Phycidea), probably Nyctegretes achatinella, taken in July near Folkestone. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited some specimens of Myrmedouia, which he had found 

 in the vicinity of a nest of the black ant {Formica fuliginosa), at Brockenhurst, in the 

 New Forest : they consisted of Myrmedonia funesta, M. lugens, M. humeralis, M, cog- 

 nata (?), and M. laticolHs. Of these all the species furnished but few specimens, 

 excepting the M. laticollis, which was plentiful. Mr. W. further stated that of these 

 species three (M. cognata, M. laticollis and M. lugens), he believed, had not found a 

 place in the list of British Coleoptera, but that the M. cognata had been previously 

 discovered by Mr. Janson. One other new British species of StaphylinidiE was 

 exhibited by Mr. W., viz. the Oxypoda vittata: it was found in company with the 

 species of Myrmedonia above noticed. 



Mr. Tompkins exhibited a specimen of the Nyctegretes? previously exhibited by 

 Mr. Stevens, which he had taken at the same time and place, on the Echium 

 vulgare. 



Mr. Bond exhibited six beautiful specimens of Graphiphora ditrapeziura, taken 

 near Blaudford, Dorsetshire, about the middle of July. 



Mr. Wollaston exhibited some Coleoptera recently taken in Leicestershire, 

 including a single specimen of Scraptia fusca. 



