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April 2, 1860. 

 J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the cliair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to he presented to 

 the donors: — ' The Zoologist ' for April ; presented by the Editor. ' The Proceedings 

 of the Zoological Society of London,' 1859, Part 3 ; by the Society. 'Journal of the 

 Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Supplement to Vol. iv. Botany ; by the Society. 

 ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part 34 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' The Journal of the 

 Society of Arts ' for March ; by the Editor, ' The Literary Gazette' for March ; by 

 the Editor. ' 



Elections, 



Dr. E. Candeze, of Liege, Belgium, was elected a Member ; and George Seaton, 

 Esq., of Trinity Square, Brixton, and J. C. l^'oung, Esq., of Redwood House, 

 Bromley, were elected Subscribers to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



The President exhibited some specimens of a species of Trogoderraa, which had 

 bred in great numbers in rice imported from Akyab, about two years since, and now 

 at Hibernia Wharf, London Bridge ; he also exhibited a quantity of the damaged 

 rice in which, he was informed, the larva had increased to a great extent within the 

 last nine months. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some splendid Lepidoptera sent from Batchian by Mr. 

 Wallace, amongst which were beautiful examples of both sexes of Ornithoptera 

 Croesus, Papilio Ormenus, P. Deiphobus, P. Codrus, and a fine new species allied to 

 P. Peranthus ; also a small Hestia, very distinct from any described species. 



Mr. Lewis exhibited a damaged example of Telephorus atra, Linn., a species not 

 hitherto recorded as a native of Britain ; the specimen exhibited had been taken in 

 Scotland by Mr. John Scott, and determined by Mr. F. Smith and himself, by com- 

 parison with continental examples in the British Museum collection. 



Mr. Janson exhibited some Coleoplera taken at Rannoch by Mr. C. Turner. 

 Mr. Westwood observed, with reference to the large species of Bruchus, 

 exhibited at the last December meeting by Dr. Wallace, as infesting the interior 

 of the nut of the Coquilla (Attalea funifera of Brazil), that there appeared 

 from an investigation which he had made with a view to the determination of the 

 species in question, to be considerable confusion in the nomenclature of the species 

 allied to Bruchus Bactris of Linnaeus. That name had been given to a species which 

 infests an American palm of the genus Bactris, and which had been first figured by 

 Jacquin in his ' History of Select American Plants,' pi. 170. According to Schon- 

 herr, this species and the allied Bruchus Nucleorura of Fabricius are at once dis- 

 tinguished by having the intermediate joints of the antenna marked on the upper 

 side with a deep oblong impression. It may, however, probably be questioned 

 whether in the absence of specimens reared from the same species of palm, there is 

 sufficient ground for the distinct identification of the Linnean species. In the 

 'Proceedings of the Entomological Society,' September 4th, 1854, some seeds of the 



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