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British Museum,' by the Rev. Hamlet Clark, M.A., F.L.S , Physapodes and OEdi- 

 podes. Part 1 ; by the Author. ' Exotic Butte: flies,' Part 37 ; by W. VV. Saunders, 

 Esq. ' The Zoologist' for January ; by the Editor. ' The Journal of the Society of 

 Arts ' for December ; by the Society. ' The AthenaBum ' for December ; by the Editor. 

 ' Catalogue of British Coleoplera,' by G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., F.Z.S., &c., Sheets m 

 and N, two copies; by the Author. 'The Entomologist's Annual' for 1861; 'The 

 Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 218 to 222 inclusive ; by H. T. Stainton, 

 Esq. 



Election of a Member, ^c. 



Francis A. Jesse, Esq., of Lanbedr Hall, Derbyshire, was elected a Member; and 

 W. F.Kirby, Esq., of 25, Albert Street, Morninglon Crescent, and H. W. Bates, Esq., 

 of King Street, Leicester, were elected Subscribers to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited some splendid Papilios and other Lepidoptera sent from 

 Ceram by Mr. Wallace. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited a fine dark variety of Hemerophila abruptaria, taken near 

 Loudon. 



Mr. Bond exhibited some fine varieties of Diclyopteryx uli};inosana and Gelechia 

 subdecurtella from the Cambridgeshire feus ; also a fine series of Gracillaria stigma- 

 tella, one example being nearly pure white. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhil»ited an example of Setodes interrupta of Fabricius (mow 

 Stephens), taken near Taunton by Mr. Parfitt, in 1859 ; and remarked that this phry- 

 ganidous insect may be considered as new to Britain, for although Fabricius, in 1792, 

 indicated it as occurring in England, no one appears to have rediscovered it until now. 



The Rev. H. A. Pickard exliibited a specimen of Gonepteryx Rliau)ni, var. 

 Cleopatra, taken by John Fellerton, Esq., at Thyrbergh Park, near Rotlierham, on the 

 27th of June, 1860, being the first recorded British example of this beautiful variety. 



Mr. Scott exhibited some specimens of Mycetophagus 4-guttatiis, Muller. The 

 species had been lately found in decaying pea-haulm, by Mr. Douglas and himself. 

 In all about tifty specimens had been secured. 



Dr. Knagys exhibited some eggs ol Geometridae from which hymenopterous para- 

 sites had emerged. 



Mr. Westwood pronounced these parasites to be Platygasler Ovulorum. 



Mr. Gorham exhibited examples of Micropeplus staphylinoides, il/aj-s/iawi, and M. 

 Margarilte, i)ui;a/, and made the following remarks : — "I believe under the specific 

 name of staphyliuoides two species of Micropeplus have been generally mixed in Bri- 

 tish collections ; they are the true M. stapbylinoides of Marsham, and M. Margaritas of 

 Duval. I have therefore attempteil to point out the characters by which these species 

 may be separated. In M. stapliylinoides the elytra are scarcely a third longer than 

 the thorax ; their sides are paralb^l, and the fourth segment of the abdomen is armed 

 with an atute prominent crest: in M. Margaritse the elytra are longer, being nearly 

 half as long again as the thorax, their sides rounded, and the disk more convex than 

 in M. stapbylinoides ; the fourth segment of the abdomen with a small and not con- 

 spicuous tubercle. 1 also beg to call attention to the sexual characters which M. 

 Duval has pointed out, but which appear to have escaped the notice of former authors, 

 viz., the existence of a tooth on the tibia of the male. In M. stapbylinoides the head 

 of the male is produced into a looih in front; that of the female is rounded: in M. 

 Margaritse the head of the male is ujore acutely toothed ; that of the female rounded. 



