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of Alls ' for September ; by the Editor. ' The Literary Gazette ' for September ; by 

 the Editor. ' The Athen?eum ' for August ; by the Editor, ' A Manual of British 

 Butterflies and Moths,' Vol. ii. ; ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencor,' No. 157; 

 ' The Natural History of the Tineina,' Vol. iv. ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. ' Bijdragen 

 tot de Dierkunde uitgegeven door bet Koninl<lijk Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra 

 te Amsterdam.' Part 7 ; by La Commission du Jardin Zoologique d'Amslerdam. Eour 

 specimens of Pterophorus Loewii ; by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge. 



Election of a Member. 



The Baron Maximilian de Chaudoir was balloted for, and elected a xMember of 

 the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Pieris Daplidice, taken by Mr. Shickle on the 

 Kentish coast. 



Mr. Bond exhibited specimens of Laphygma exigua and Heliothis arraigera, taken 

 at Freshwater; also single examples of Noctua flammatra and Leucauia extranea, 

 from the same locality ; these two last-mentioned species being additions to the list 

 of British Noctua?, and the latter especially remarkable as not being hitherto recorded 

 as an European insect, although found in various parts of America, Asia and Aus- 

 tralia. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Matthews, a specimen of Aspilates 

 sacraria, taken by him in Devonshire ; and on the part of Mr. Lynch, a fine specimen 

 of Acidalia rubricaria, taken in Kent. 



Mr. Smith exhibited a specimen of Aspilates sacraria, taken on Banstead Downs, 

 on the 22nd of August last ; and a number of the original drawings of the illustrations 

 of Roesel's ' Insecten Belustigung, lent to him by Dr. Gunlher. 



Dr. Allchin exhibited a specimen of Lycaena boetica, taken near Brighton on the 

 7th of August last, and the first known instance of the occurrence of the species in 

 Britain ; and an example of Leucania extranea taken near Lewes on the 9th of Sep- 

 tember. He also exhibited specimens of Coremia ferrugata and the variety called 

 unidentata by Haworth, taken in copula, 



Dr, Allchin also exhil)ited beautiful drawings of Lycaena boetica and Leucania 

 extranea, made by Mr. \V. S. Coleman. 



Mr. Stainton observed with reference to the occurrence of L. boetica in England, 

 that the species is usually rare in the north of Paris, but this season it had been very 

 abundant in the north of France, and also in the Channel Islands; it was not, there- 

 fore, to be wondered at that it should have reached our southern coast. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a specimen of Pterophorus brachydactylus, taken in Cum- 

 berland by Mr. Hodgkinson ; this being the second British specimen of the insect, of 

 which a single specimen had occurred in Norfolk more than twelve years ago. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a drawing of a new species of Litbocollelis (L. Heliantheroi) 

 with a cocoon of the insect; the habit of this species was altogether abnormal, as the 

 larva, which mines the under side of the leaves of the Helianthemura vulgare, quits the 

 mine to undergo the change to the pupa state, and forms a flattish, white cocoon, very 

 similar to those formed by some larvae of the genus Gracilaria. The perfect insect 

 has considerable resemblance to L. sylvella, and, despite the habit of the larva, appears 

 to be a veritable Lithocolletis. Mr. S. has received the drawing and cocoons from 

 Herr Hofmann, of Ratisbon. 



