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May 3, 1858. 

 Dr. Gray, President, in the Cliair. 



Donations. 



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

 donors: — ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Nattiralistes de Moscou,' 1856, Nos. 

 2 — 4, and 1857, No. 1 ; presented by the Society. ' Catalogue of the Lepidopterous 

 Insects in the Museum of the East India Company,' by Thomas Horsfield, M. and 

 Ph. D., F.R.S., Keeper of the Company's Museum, and Frederic Moore, Assistant, 

 Vol. i. ; by the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company. ' Proceedings 

 of the Royal Society,' "Vol. ix, No. 30 ; by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society,' Nos. 339— 349, both inclusive; by the Society. 'The Zoologist' for 

 May ; by the Editor. ' Abhandlungen de Mathemal-Physikalischen Classe der Ko- 

 niglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenchaften,' Vol. viii. Part I. ; ' Ueber den 

 Auban und Ertrag des Bodens im Konigreiche Bayun,' Part I., by Dr. F. B. W. 

 Hermann; by the Akademie. 'The Athenfeum ' for April; by the Editor. 'The 

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

 for April ; by the Society. ' List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the 

 Collection of the British Museum,' by Francis Walker, F.L.S., (Sec— Supplement ; 

 by the Autkor. 'A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths,' No, 16; by the 

 Author, H. T. Staiuton, Esq. ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 

 79—83 ; by the Editor, H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Elections. 



Robert Me Lachlan, Esq., of Park Road Terrace, Forest Hill, and Alfred Boot, 

 Esq., of Park Row, Greenwich, were elected Members ; and Joseph Stevens, Esq., of 

 Upper Richmond Road, Wandsworth, a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Majendie sent for exhibition a piece of beech bark covered with a white sub- 

 stance, which Mr. Weslwood pronounced to be a secretion exuded from the body of 

 the female of a species of Coccus, of which the male is as yet unknown. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited specimens of Stenus solutns, Erichn., taken in the Lon- 

 don district, observing that the species had been recorded as British in Mr. Water- 

 house's recently published Catalogue, on the authority of a single specimen in the 

 collection of Dr. Power. 



Mr. W. F. Evans sent for exhibition living examples of the larva and imago of a 

 species of the Rhynchophorous genus Prypnus, Schoenh., which he had found in 

 bulbs imported from the Cape of Good Hope. 



Mr. Horace Francis exhibited various Coleoptera which he had met with in the 

 vicinity of Folkestone, in September last, including beautiful examples of Anchome- 

 nus livens, Gi/IL, and Ocypus (Goerius) cyaneus, Fab. 



Mr. Janson exhibited the following Coleoptera, recently captured by him within a 

 short distance of the metropolis; — 



