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Election of a Member. 



W. D. Crotch, Esq., Uphill House, Weslon-super-Mare, was balloted for and 

 elected a Member of the Society. 



Exhihilions. 



Mr. Jeakes exhibited a specimen of Arrhenodes niaxillosus,0//'i)., a North-American 

 Curculio of the family Brenticlae, but which had been found flying in a garden at 

 Camden Town by Miss Jeakes. 



Mr. Bond exhibited some Lepidoptera taken at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, amongst 

 which were beautiful varieties of Setina irrorella, a series of an apparently new spe- 

 cies of Coleophora, Cocliylis flaviciliana, &c. ; he also exhibited a splendid living 

 sjiecimen of Calosoma sycophanta, found on the coast at Freshwater a few days pre- 

 viously, and had since been fed on the larva of Biston hirtarius, of which it devoured 

 three or four full-grown examples daily. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited specimens of Deleasler dichroa, lately taken near London. 



Mr. A. F. Sheppard sent for exhibition two specimens of Erastria venuslula, taken 

 near Loughton, Essex. 



Mr. Janson exhibited the following species of Coleoptera, hitherto unrecorded as 

 British, viz., Stenus opticus, Grav., from Mr. Jeakes' collection, taken by Mr. Squire 

 in Horning Feu ; Conosoma pedicularium, Grrav., from Holme Fen ; and Scolylus 

 Pruni, Ratz., taken near London. 



Mr. Mitford exhibited a fine series of Psyche fusca, which he had lately l)red from 

 the larvae taken near Hampstead ; and a specimen of Carabus intricatus, (ound near 

 Bath, being a new locality for this fine species. 



Mr. Holdsworlh exhibited the nest and eggs of Hydrous piceus, from the aquarium 

 of the Zoological Society, in the Regent's Park. 



Mr. Gorham exhibited specimens of Ancliomenus livens, taken on sugar placed 

 on trees to attract Noctuae. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited an apparently new species of Phycita, taken near Mickle- 

 ham ; and some beautiful Lepidoptera, chiefly Tiueina, sent from Moreton Bay, by 

 Mr. Diggles ; also the drawing of the larva of a species of Gastrophasia, Guen., and 

 the moth reared therefrom. 



Mr. Stevens also exhibited both sexes of the splendid Ornithoptera alluded to by 

 Mr. Wallace in the letter read at the last meeting of the Society; and also both sexes 

 of the beautiful Papilio allied to P. Ulysses, for which Mr. Wallace proposed the 

 specific name of "Telemachus," which had arrived in this country since the last 

 meeting. He observed that the Ornithopterii, although allied to O. Titbonus, DeHaan, 

 was by no means identical with that insect, as had been conjectured by Mr. West- 

 wood, from the description given in Mr. Wallace's letter. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited, and read the description of, a new and beautiful species 

 of Phasmidae, for which he proposed thenameof Dimelytron Batesianura,and to publish 

 a coloured figure in the ' Transactions ' of the Society, it having been forwarded by 

 Mr. Bates, from the Amazon River, too late for representation in Mr. Westwood's 

 monograph on the family, published by the Trustees of the British Museum. 



Mr. Westwood also exhibited a fine Papilio, collected in New Caledonia, by Mr. 

 MacGillivray, of which the following are the characters : — 



