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Vul. xi. ; by ihe Entomological Society of Stettin. ' Monograpliia Cassitlidarum,' auc- 

 tore Carolo H. Bobeiuan, Tomus terlius ; by tbe autbor. ' Anniversary Address deli- 

 vered to tbe Berwicksbire Naturalists' Club, at Berwick, January 30ib, 1856, by 

 Robert Embleton, Surgeon, President ;' by tbe Club. ' Nouvelles Considerations sur 

 la Nidificalion des Guepes,' par H. De Saussure; by tbe Author. ' Uber eine neue 

 Fliegengattuug : Rayrnondia, aus der Familie der Coriaceen, nebst Bescbreibung 

 Zweier Arten derselben, Von Georg Fraueufeld ; by tbe Author. 'The Zoologist' for 

 March; by tbe Editor. 'The Journal of tbe Society of Arts ' for March; by the 

 Editor. 'The Literary Gazette' for March; by tbe Editor. 'The Athenaeum' for 

 January ; by the Editor. ' Elements of Entomology,' No. 6 ; 'A Manual of British 

 Butterflies and Moths,' No. l;3; 'The Substitute,' Nos. 16— !9; by H. T. Stainlon, 

 Esq. 'Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1850, No. 12; 1857, No. 1 ; by the Editor, 

 M. F. E. Guerin-Meneville. A cabinet containing British and foreign insects ; by 

 T. F. Dillon Croker, Esq. 



Election of a Member. 



T. F, Dillon Croker, Esq., F.G.S., of 6, Strand, was balloted for, and elected a 

 Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, 



Mr. Wallace exhibited two specimens of Lapbygma exigua, bred from eggs laid 

 by a female taken in the Tsle of Wight, in July last ; and read the following descrip- 

 tion of the larvae : — 



"Pinkish brown on the back, pinkish yellow underneath; a vow of black spots 

 down the back, two rows on each side, between which are white spiracles, or rather a 

 darker ground than that outside the rows of black spots; head and tail greenish. 

 Length, when full-grown, about I inch. Fed on plantain, remaining during the day 

 rolled up in the leaves or roots. The eggs were laid about July 18, and hatched in 

 three weeks ; larvae full-fed about September 12 ; and the perfect insects now exhi- 

 bited emerged October 20." 



Mr. Douglas exhiliited some small lepidoplerous larvae found at the roots of grass. 

 He stated that be had lately taken a number of larvae and Coleoptera, especially 

 Stapbylinidae, in marshy ground at Hammersmith, by cutting off grass below the sur- 

 face of tbe ground, and shaking it over a sheet of paper. Great numbers of insects 

 appear to bybernaie in such situations. Amongst the Coleoptera thus taken were 

 several specimens of the rare Anchomenus Thoreyi. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some drawings of larvae of Natal Lepidoptera, made by Mr. 

 R. W. Plant, and also the perfect insects bred from tbe larvae represented, amongst 

 which were several fine species of Bombyces and a new species of Acraea, the larva of 

 which was represented armed with long, branched spines, and is interesting from the 

 fact of the larvae of this genus having hitherto been unknown. 



Mr. Were read the following, by Mr. Newman, exhibiting the specimen described : — 



Remarkable Variety of Arctia Caja. 



"Sex male. Head, antennae, tippets and abdomen have the normal colouring; 

 all the other parts and colours abnormal ; the prothorax, mesothorax, fore wings and 

 entire disk of the hind wings an uniform brown, of that character which is frequently 



