ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. IxXXV 



containing descriptions of various new exotic Diptera, including a 

 species of the remarkable genus Achias, from India. 



November 5, 184-9. 

 G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered 

 to be given to the respective Donors : 



Ten portraits of modern naturalists. Presented by G. Ran- 

 some, Esq. of Ipswich. 



Kaferfauna der Preuszischen Rheinlande, vol. i., 8vo. Pre- 

 sented by M. Bach, the author. 



Insectes Coleopteres de la Siberie Orientale nouveaux ou peu 

 connus. Presented by M. le Comte Mannerheim, the author. 



Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de 

 Geneve, torn. xii. partie Ire. 



Observations Astronomiques faites dans 1847 et 1848, a I'Ob- 

 servatoire de Geneve, Supp. 1 et 2. Presented by the Societe de 

 Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, 8cc. 



Mr. Bond exhibited bred specimens of Chilo giganlelhis (male 

 and female), two singular varieties o^ Nona grin Ti/phce, and three 

 new Tineid(je. 



Mr. Ingpen exhibited some fossil wings of insects, cliTefly 

 Plirj/ganeidcE, from the insect-limestone of Gloucestershire. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited Argyresthia Spiniella, Zeller, and A. 

 amiantella, Z. ? observing that in the latter the palpi were much 

 longer than in Ocnerostoma Piniar'iella, which in appearance it 

 much resembled. The former of these species was taken by 

 Mr. Stainton, at Torwood, in Stirlingshire; the latter by Mr. 

 Dunning, at Brandon. He also exhibited a leaf of the sallow 

 rolled up by the larva of Gracillaria stigmatella ; leaves o? Hype- 

 ricum putchrum rolled up by Gracillaria auroguttella? ; pupae of 

 Lilhocolletis Schreherella in leaves of elm, and of I,. Alnifoliella, 

 six in one leaf of alder : he observed, that as alders grow in wet 

 places, the leaves would fall in many instances into water, and 



