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Mr. Stevens stated he had lately taken four or five specimens of Helops pallida at 

 Deal. 



Mr. Smith read a paper, by Mr. Frederick Bates, intituled " Description of a New 

 Species of the Genus Myrmecilla," 



October 6, 185(5. 

 J. O. W^ESTwooD, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors: — 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' vol. viii. No. 22; presented by the So- 

 ciety. 'Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Hisloire Naturelle de Geneve,' 

 Tome xiv. Ire Partie; by the Society, 'Exotic Butterflies,' Part XX ; by W. W. 

 Saunders, Esq., F.R.S. ' Lisl of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Col- 

 lection of the British Museum,' Part VIII., Sphingidae ; by the Author, F.Walker, 

 Esq., F.L.S. ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1856, Nos. 6 and 7 ; by the Editor, M. 

 F. E. Guerin-Meueville. ' The Zoologist' for October; by the Editor. 'The Ento- 

 mologist's Weekly Intelligencer' for 1856; the same work, Nos. 23, 24, 25 and 26; 

 ' Elements of Entomology : an Outline of the Natural History and Classification of 

 British Insects,' by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S. ; 'A Manual of British Butterflies and 

 Mollis,' by H. T. Stainlou ; by H. T. Slainton, Esq. 'The Athensum' for August 

 and September; by the Editor. 'The Literary Gazette' for September; by the Edi- 

 tor. ' The Journal of the Society of Arts ' for September ; by the Society. ' Kritische 

 Bemerkungen iiber M. S. Merian Metamorphoses Insectorum Suriuamensium ;' ' Un- 

 tersuchungen iiber die Fliigeltypen der Coleoptereu ; ' by the Author, Dr. H. Bur- 

 mcister. A box of minute Coleoptera from Ceylon ; by Wm. Speuce, Esq., F.R.S. 



J^xhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a fine specimen of Carabus intricatus, which had lately 

 been picked up dead near Plymouth ; also a pair of Mouohammus Sutor, found in au 

 old ash tree near Yaxley, Hunts; and a bottle containing a quantity of liquorice 

 powder, which, allhoiigli the cork had not been taken out for five years, contained 

 several living specimens of Endrosis feiiestrella, the larva; of which had evidently sub- 

 sisted on the powder, and on the end of the cork inserted in the neck of the bottle. 



Mr. Stevens also exhibited a box of beautiful Lepidoptera, chiefly minute species 

 of Pyralida; and Tineida;, taken by Mr. Diggles at Moreton Bay. Many of these 

 species were bred from the larva. Mr, Stevens observed that Mr. Diggles, who is an 



