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February 2, 1857, 



H. T. Stainton, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



The Secretary read a letter from the President of the Society, W. Wilson Saun- 

 ders, Esq. (who was absent throiipfh indisposition), in which he nominated as Vice- 

 Presidents for the year Dr. J. E. Gray, H. T. Stainton, Esq., and T. V. Wollaslon, 

 Esq. 



Donations. 



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

 donors : — ' Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of .Madrid,' Natural Sciences, 

 Tome ii. Part I.; Physical Sciences, Tome i. Part I. ; presented by the Academy. ' Exo- 

 tic Butterflies,' Part XXI. ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S. 'Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society,' Nos. 310 — 313 inclusive ; by the Society. ' Monograph of the 

 Genus Catops,' by Andrew Murray, Member of the Royal Physical Society of Edin- 

 burgh, &c. ; by the Author. ' The Natural History Review,' J 857, No. 1 ; by the Dub- 

 lin University Zoological Association. ' Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis,' Vol. v. Part 

 II.; by the Editor, HerrErnst A. Zuckold. ' List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous 

 Insects in the Collectiou of the British Museum,' by Francis Walker, Esq., F.L.S., 

 Part X. Noctuidae; by the Author. 'The Zoologist' for February; by the Editor. 

 'The Literary Gazette' for January; by the Editor. 'The Journal of the Society of 

 Arts ' for January ; by the Society. 'A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths, 

 No. 12; 'Elements of Entomology,' No. 5 ; ' The Substitute,' Nos. 12—16; by H.T. 

 Stainton, Esq. 



Election of a Subscriber. 



C. J. Biggs, Esq., of Blenheim Cottages, South Hackney, was balloted for and 

 elected a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some beautiful Lepidoptera, which had lately arrived in this 

 country, taken by Mr. Bates in the Upper Amazons; and observed that although the 

 box containing them had been despatched by Mr. Bates in July last, from Ega, more 

 than 1500 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, yet the insects were in the most ex- 

 cellent condition. Of these he called attention to Callithea Batesii, and to a splen- 

 did undescrilied species, closely resembling it in colour and markings, but presenting 

 a striking difi'erence in the form of the club of the antennas ; also to the extraordinary 

 dissimilarity in the sexes of a beautiful species of Epicalia, and to a fine female 

 Agrias, probably the female of A. Phalcidon, Heivilson. In the box were also a fine 

 series of Erycinida;, and some remarkable species of Tortrices and Tineae, being the 

 first specimens of these two last-named families which have reached this country from 

 that far-distant locality. 



