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elicit a smile, yet some of ihem evinced an acquaintance with the natural history 

 of the iusect highly creditable to the Chinese authorities. 



Mr. Spence communicated a letter from Mr. John Stedman on injuries caused to 

 strawberry plants by a species of weevil supposed to be an Otiorhynchus. 



Mr. Adam White communicated some notes on the habits and economy of South 

 American butterflies, received by him from Mr. H. W. Bates. 



On the motion of Mr. Westwood, a special vote of thanks was given to Mr. Bates 

 for this valuable and interesting communication. 



October 5, 1857. 

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



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

 donors : — ' Jourual of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' Vol. xviii. Part I. ; 

 presented by the Society. ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part XXIV. ; by W. W. Saunders, 

 Esq. 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol, viii. No. 27; by the Society. ' Ele- 

 ments of Entoniolgy,' Nos. 12 and 13; ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' 

 Vol. ii. and No. 63; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 'The Athenaeum ' for September; by 

 the Editor. ' The Literary Gazette ' for September ; by the Editor. ' The Journal 

 of the Society of Arts' for September ; by the Society. ' The Annual Address to the 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, on September 24th, 1857, by W. Dickson, Esq.' ; by 

 the Club. 



Election of a Subscriber. 



C. Dm Drury, Esq., of Grote's Buildings, Blackheath, wash alloted for and elected 

 a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited full-grown larvae of Deilephila Galii found near Deal ; 

 also Baris laticollis and Phlophagus jeneopiceus, which he had bred from Brassica 

 oleracea, at the same locality. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Newman, a specimen of Zuphium olens, 

 a species hitherto unrecorded as British, which he had captured whilst searching for 

 water-beetles, on the 19th of September, in the remaining portion of the old Croydon 

 Canal, at Forest Hill. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a specimen of Acrolepia Betuletella lately taken by Mr. 

 Sang at Castle Eden Dean. He observed that the only specimen previously recorded 

 is in Mr. Dale's collection. 



Mr. Turner sent for exhibition fine specimens of Phlogophora empyrea taken near 

 Brighton. 



Mr. Smith exhibited three species of ants new to the British Fauna. The name of 

 one, Formica bruunea, had long appeared in the lists, but the specimens representing 



