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August 6, 1800. 

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



Donations. 



The following donations were annonnced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors: — ' Catalogues of Natural History diUections in the British Museum,' t;/^. 

 Lepidoplera, Part 1 (Papilio); Hymenoptera, Parts 1 and 2 (Chakidites) ; Hyinenop- 

 tera. Parts 1 — 7; Diptera, Parts 1 — 7; Hoinoptera, Parts 1 — 4, and Supplement; 

 Hemiptera, Parts 1 and 2 ; Orthoplera, Part 1 ; Nomenclature of Coleoptera, Parts 

 3, 4 and fi; Coleoptera, Parts 7—9; Coleoptera of Madeira; Coleo])tera, Parti 

 (Cucuijdae) ; Hispidae ; Neuroptera, Parts 1 — 4; Neuroptera, Part 1 (Terniilina) ; 

 British Animals, Parts 5 — 17; British Hymenoptera, Part 1; British Fossorial 

 Hymenoptera ; British Ichneuinonidse ; British Ciuculionidte ; British Dialomaceae ; 

 Marine Polyzoa, Parts 1 and 2 ; Lepidoptera Heterocera, Part 20. ' Proceedings of 

 the Royal Society,' vol. x. No. 39 ; presented by the Society. ' Journal of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Linnean Society,' Supplement to vol. iv. (Zoology) ; by tlie Society. 

 ' Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh,' vol. i. ; by the Society. 

 ' Catalogue of British Coleoptera,' Sheets K aud L ; by the Author, G. R. Waterhouse, 

 Esq. ' Exotic Buterflies,' Part 35 ; by \V. W. Saunders, Esq. ' The Zoologist' for 

 August ; by the Editor. ' The Alhensum ' for July ; by the Editor. ' The Journal of 

 the Society of Arts ' for July ; by the Society. ' The Natural History of the Tineina,' 

 vol. v. ; ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 192—200; by H. T. Stain ton, 

 Esq. ' Linnaea Entomologica,' vol. xiv.; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Exhibitions. 



The Piesident exhibited specimens of Stalhmopoda pedella, one of the Tineina 

 hitherto so extremely rare in our collections that only two tir three examples were 

 known. He found it in abundance in July in the Ib'iage of alder trees at Lewisham, 

 and other persons liad also taken it there, so liiat more than 200 specimens had been 

 captured. Professor Bohen)ann had recently informed him that this moth was not 

 scarce in Sweden, but he was not aware that the larva had been observed since Liuneus 

 wrote of it, " Habitat in Alni foliis subcutanea." It was to be hoped that with this 

 guide to its habits no long time would now elapse before the larva would be re-dis- 

 covered. The President called attention to the peculiar position in which the spinose 

 hind legs were held in repose — turned under the wings and extended laterally in front 

 of them — a peculiarity which had been noticed l)y Linneus. Even when the moth 

 walked, these legs were rarely put down, so that the creature usually walked about by 

 means oC its other four legs only. 



The President also exhibited a specimen of Phloiotrya rufipes, found dead under 

 the bark of an old oak at Leatherhead Common. 



Mr. Bond exhibited specimens of a Trochilium, recently taken by Mr. G. King at 

 Torquay ; and also some examples of apparently the same species from the collection 

 of J. R. Hind, E^q., captured in Spain, and labelled Philanthiforme. 



The species taken by Mr. King, as far as can be ascertained from the damaged 



