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considered as well-defined genera, but of late the discovery of new species had so 

 linked them that it now was impossible to separate them. 



A conversation ensued on the variation of species, as apparently produced by 

 climate and lapse of time, in the course of which Mr. Westwood observed that it 

 would be interesting to know whether the animal remains found in mummies, &c., 

 were the same species as at present exist in a living slate. 



M. Milne-Edwards said that the Ibis found embalmed with mummies was 

 identical with the existing species. 



Mr.Stainton read a paper intituled ' Observations on Genera.' 



January 5, 1857. 



W. W. Saunders, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 

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

 donors: — ' Ent(miological Papers,' by John Nietner, Nos. 3 and 4; presented by 

 the author. ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1856, Nos. 10 and 11 ; by the Editor, 

 M. Guerin-Meneville. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for December; by the 

 Society. 'The Literary Gazette' for December ; by the Editor. ' The Athenaeum' 

 for November and December; by the Editor. 'A Manual of Butterflies and Moths,' 

 No. 11;' Elements of Entomology,' No. 4 ; ' The Substitute,' Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10 and 1 1 ; 

 ' The Entomologist's Annual' for 1857, Library edition ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Election of Members, $-c. 



The Rev. D. J, Drakeford, M.A., Churton Mendip, Somersetshire, and H. S. 

 Digby, Esq., Fenstanton, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, were balloted for and elected 

 Members of the Society. 



Edward William Robinson, Esq., 42, Harmeson Street, Kentish Town, was 

 balloted for and elected a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 

 Mr. Stevens exhibited a box of Lcpidoptera, chiefly Pyralidae, taken at Sarawak 

 by Mr. Wallace, amongst which was a beautiful species of Cerura, allied to C. liturata 

 of India ; a singular Bombyx, allied to the Megasoma pardale of Java ; and several 

 Pyralidaj, remarkable for the extraordinary development of the palpi, in one species 

 the terminal joint of the palpi being turned back over the head of the insect, and 

 equal in length to the abdomen. 



