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Part IV. of Vol. iv., n. s., of the Society's 'Transactions,' published in April, was 

 on the table. 



June 1, 1857. 

 W. W. Sa UN DEES, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 donors: — 'The Natural History Review,' 1857, No. 2; presented by the Dublin 

 University Zoological Association. ' The Zoologist' for June; by the Editor. ' Re- 

 vue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1857, No. 4, by the Editor, M. F. E. Guerin-Meneville. 

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

 Arts' for May; by the Society. Certain Insects taken in the interior of Africa by 

 Dr. Livingstone ; by that gentleman. 'Elements of Entomology,' Nos. 8 and 9; 

 ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 28 to 35 inclusive ; by H. T. Stain- 

 ton, Esq. 



Election of a Subscriber. 



Henry Gorham, Esq., of 9, Horntou Terrace, Kensington, was elected a Sub- 

 scriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a beautiful series of Retinia Turionana bred from larvae found 

 in the shoots of Scotch firs in Buckinghamshire ; also living larvae of Coleophora pal- 

 lialella and C. currucipennella from Richmond Park. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited Slenolophus elegans and other Coleoptera lately taken at 

 Sheerness. 



The Rev. H. C. Stowell sent for exhibition a fine dark variety of Melitsea Euphro- 

 syne. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited the living larva of Hypercallia Christiernana received 

 from Switzerland. 



Mr. Janson exhibited various species of Coleoptera captured by himself in the 

 neighbourhood of London during the last month, and made the following observations 

 in reference to them : — 



" 1. Rhyncolus truncorum, Germar, Gyll. A novelty to our list, notwithstanding 

 that its name for many years there held a place ; but, as Mr. Walton has shown, the 

 insect thus designated by the late Mr. Stephens pertains to the genus Phloeophagus, 

 being the P. aeneopiceus of Schonherr. 



" Of the two species of Rhyncolus extant in British collections and enumerated by 

 Mr. Walton, the present insect is most nearly allied to R. cylindrirostris, Oliv. (ligna- 

 rius, Marsh., Steph.), from which it may be at once distinguished by its more robust 

 habit, its singularly depressed eyes, whose position may be styled infero-lateral, no 



