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naturelles, d'AgricuUure et d'Industrie,publiees par la Sociele imperiale (rAgriculture, 

 ^c. de Lyon,' 2ieine Serie, Tome viii., 3ieme Serie, Tome i. ; by the Society. 

 ' Memoires de I'Academie imperiale des Sciences, Belles-lettres et Arts de Lyon.' 

 Classe des Lettres, Tomes v. and vi.; Classe des Sciences, Tomes vi. and vii. ; by the 

 Society. ' Verbandlungen des zoologisch-botanischen in Wien,' Vol. vii. ; also 

 ' Personen-Orts und.Sacb Register der funf usteu Jabrgange der Sitzungsberichte und 

 Abhandlungen ;' by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of Liverpool,' No. 12 ; by the Society. ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part 28 ; by 

 W. W. Saunders, Esq, ' List of Specimens of Lepidopterous Lisects in the Collection 

 of the British Museum,' by Francis Walker, F.L.S., &c., Part xv. Noctuidae ; by the 

 Author. The ' Zoologist ' for November ; by the Editor. The ' Literary Gazette ' 

 for October ; by the Editor. The ' Journal of the Society of Arts ;' by the Editor. A 

 ' Manual of British Butterflies and Moths,' No. 22 ; The ' Entomologist's Weekly 

 Intelligencer ' for October ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. Six specimens of Agrotis saucia ; 

 by F. Bond, Esq. 



Election of a Memher. 



Robert Slade, Esq., of 36, Gillingham Street, Piuilico, was balloted for and 

 elected a member of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a specimen of a new British Noctua, Micra purva, taken at 

 Torquay by Dr. Battersby : that gentleman had made a careful investigation of the 

 cliffs at Torquay, in June last, in consequence of his daughter having met with a 

 specimen of JNIicra ostrina, and the result was several more specimens of M. ostrina, 

 and with them two M. parva, which he at first mistook for small females of M. ostrina: 

 " they lay very close amongst the grass and brambles, and when disturbed did not fly 

 more than a yard or two." 



Mr. Gorhani exhibited the living larvae of Coleophora Virgaureaj, from Westerham, 

 Kent. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited beautiful examples of Acheronlia Atrop^s and Sphinx 

 Convolvuli, and remarked on the usefulness of setting out the legs of specimens of 

 Lepidoptera, which has hitherto been much neglected by entomologists in this 

 county. 



Mr. Smith exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Plant, the following Coleoptera, vJ2- : — 

 Tropiderus sepicola, from Buddon Wood ; Zeugophora flavicollis, from Marlinshaw 

 Wood, Lincolnshire; and Orsodacna humeralis, captured in Birkland Forest, Notting- 

 hamshire. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some fine Coleoptera, taken by Mr. A. R, Wallace in 

 Celebes. 



Mr. Westwood exliihited an ant, from South America, destitute of eyes ; the 

 specimen had been obtained by him on his recent visit to Denmark. Mr. Smith 

 believed the insect pertained to the genus Eciton. 



Mr. Bond exhibited, on behalf of Mr. A. F. Sealy, two specimens of Luperina 

 Dumerilii, taken in the South of England during the past season. 



Mr. Stevens read some extracts from a letter received from Mr. Diggles, of More- 

 ton Bay, on the Entomology of that part of Australia, and stated that he had received 

 a letter from M. Mouhot, who had undertaken a journey to Siam in quest of 



