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Election of a Subscriber. 



C. Miller, Esq., 17, Silurian Terrace, Dalston, was balloted for, and elected a Sub- 

 scriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a portion of a collection of drawings of European Lepi- 

 doptera, in wbicb the wings were formed by transferring the scales from the wings of 

 the insects by a process not ascertained, the bodies and limbs being afterwards beauti- 

 fully drawn in water-colours. Mr. Stevens stated that the entire collection was con- 

 tained in seven portfolios, and comprised nearly the whole of the European Maci'o- 

 Lepidoptera ; it had been formed in Germany, by the labour of a lifetime, and now 

 sent to England to be disposed of at a very moderate price. 



The specimens exhibited were much admired by the Members present, some of 

 whom stated they had tried various modes of transferring the scales of Lepidoptera to 

 paper, but with very unsatisfactory results. 



Mr. Janson exhibited the following Coleoptera, taken at Rannoch by Mr. C. 

 Turner, viz., Otiovhynchus septentrionis, Herbst, Scolytus Ratzeburgii, Janson, Mag- 

 dalinus carbonarius. Fab,, and Rhagonycha paludosa, Fallen. 



Mr. Janson also exhibited a specimen of Homalota subterranea, Mulsant., a 

 species first detected in France, which he had found at Mickleham, Surrey, on 

 the 23rd ult., under a stone, in a nest of Formica flava. He also exhibited Ischno- 

 glossa rufopicea and Conosoma bimaculatum, found beneath bark of oaks at Colney 

 Hatch. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited a fine specimen of Chrosis Audouiana, lately caught at 

 Darenth Wood,, Kent. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited the following Coleoptera, found in the sap exuding from 

 the perforations formed in oaks by the larva of Cossus ligniperda, viz., Cryplar- 

 cha imperialis, Epursea 10-guttata, Tachinus bipustulatus, Homalota cinnamomea, 

 H. hospitH, and Oiualium planum. He also exhibited Conopalpus testaceus, bred 

 from rotten oak-branches from Richmond Park. 



The Rev. H. Claik sent for distribution amongst the Members specimens of Lac- 

 cophilus variegatus, Germ., taken by him at Pevensey in June last. 



Mr. Lewis exhibited specimens of Thiasopliila inquilina, found at Charlton in 

 nests of Formica fuliginosa. Mr. Lewis remarked that he had, at the Meeting of the 

 Society held on the 2nd of April last, exhibited a specimen of Telephorus atra, L., 

 and stated it to be a species unrecorded as British ; but he had since found that it 

 had been long before included by Mr. Murray iu his 'Catalogue of Scottish Co- 

 leoptera.' 



The Secretary read a letter from R. J. L. Guppy, Esq., Port of Spain, Trinidad, 

 on the habits of an insect allied to, if not identical with, Ranatra linearis of Europe, 

 which he had found in streams in that island. 



