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Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors :—‘ The 
Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales, Vol. i., Part 45 
presented by the Society. ‘The Entomologist, vol. ii.; by the Editor, E. Newman, 
Esq. ‘On the Fossil Insects from [linois, the Miamia and Hemeristia, by Samuel 
H. Scudder; by the Author. ‘ Exotic Butterflies,’ Part 57, by W. C. Hewitson; by 
W.W. Saunders, Esq. * A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Devon and Cornwall,’ by 
J.J. Reading, Part I{T.; by the Author. ‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society, Nos. 79 
and 80; by the Society. ‘The Entomologist’s Annual,’ for 1866; by H. T. Stainton, 
Esq. ‘Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 1866, Nos. 1—3; by the Entomological 
Society of Stettin. ‘The Zoologist, for February; by the Editor. ‘The Entomolo- 
gists Monthly Magazine’ for February ; by the Editors. 
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Election of Honorary Members. 
MM. Guerin-Méneville, of Paris, and Boheman, of Stockholm, were severally 
ballotted for and elected Honorary Members. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. Dorville sent for exhibition a male specimen of Sterrha sacraria, captured by 
him at Alphington, near Exeter, at sugar, in August last (see Ent. Mo. Mag. ii. 115); 
a gigantic Vanessa Cardui, measuring 2 inches and 10 lines in expanse, and having 
a black spot in the pale band at the anal angle of the anterior wings: a variety of 
Argynnis Selene, wanting many of the ordinary black markings of the upper side, and 
with the under side of the hind wings very abuormal; a female Satyrus Tithonus 
having an additional ocellated spot on the auterior wings ; a female Agrotis segetum, 
with the anterior wings nearly black; and a variety of Triphena orboua with moitled 
anterior wings, and with the posterior wings very pale yellow. 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a male of Papilio Semperi, from the Philippines, with 
black wings and a bright searlet body; the body of the female being grey. 
Prof. Westwood exhibited a pair of the dog-tick, [xodes plumbeus, which he bad 
kept without food in a glass tube for twelve months, having taken them away with 
him from the Meeting of this Society held on the 6th February, 1865, (see * Proceed- 
ings, 1865, p. 82). Shortly alterwards numbers of young ones were observed in the 
tube, but they soon died; the tube however was now again thronged with young in 
the hexapod state. The female parent was no longer living. 
Prof. Westwood also exhibited a larva with long filaments at the sides of the 
body, which he at first thought to be Nenropterous (Sialis), and afterwards I.epidop- 
terous (Hydrucampa), but which from examination of De Geer’s figures he believed to 
be Dipterous, and probably the larva of Tipula replicata. Itwas found in damp moss 
in Derbyshire, and there was no doubt that the filaments were branchial and con- 
nected with respiration. 
The President remarked upon the apparent absence or scarcity of trachew in these | 
branchial apparatus. 
The President exhibited magnified coloured drawings of two larve, and requested 
information to what insects they belonged. Except that one was Lepidopterous, and 
the other probably Coleopterous, no light was thrown upon the subject. 
