ba 
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Vv 
female portion was of the form known as var. Valesina. Prof. Westwood said that a 
similar gynandromorphous variety bad been recorded in the publications of one of the 
Belgian societies. 
Papers read. 
‘Mr. Baly communicated the concluding portion of his paper entitled “ New 
Genera and Species of Gallerucide ” ; containing descriptions of four new species of 
the genus Cerotoma. 
Mr. Hewitson communicated the concluding portion of his paper entitled 
“Descriptions of New Species of Hesperide”; comprising seventeen additional 
species of the genus Hesperia. 
March 5, 1866. 
W. W. Saunpers, Esq., V.-P., in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors :— 
‘Schriften der Koniglichen Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg, 
1864, Parts 1 & 2; presented by the Society. ‘Synopsis des Nevroptéres d’ Espagne, 
par A.-Edouard Pictet; by the Author. ‘Una Rectificacion mas acerca del Animal- 
Planta, y descripeion de un nuevo Iusecto?’ par Antonio del Castillo; by Dr. Gray. 
*The Zoologist’ for March; by the Editor. ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine” 
for March; by the Editors. 
Exhibitions, §c. 
Mr. W. H. Groser said that when at the Meeting in December, 1865, a doubt was 
expressed whether the noise made by Anobium was caused by percussion, he had a 
strong conviction that the fact thus disputed rested on the authority of competent 
observers, and he had since met with the followivg passage respecting Anobium tessel- 
latum in the Rev. L. Jenyns ‘ Observations on Natural History :’— 
_ “Tt is curious to observe one of them labouring, as it were, to make itself heard ; 
raising itself on its binder legs it beats forcibly on the wall on which it stands with 
the fure part of the head, giving seven or eight strokes at a time in pretty quick 
succession.” 
Mr. Groser had written to Mr. Jenyns, asking if this statement was made from his 
own actual observation, and Mr. Jenyns replied, ‘‘ I am quite sure of the correctness 
of what I have stated in my ‘Observations &c.,’ respecting the tapping of Ano- 
bium tessellatum, having witnessed it repeatedly. With regard to A. striatum, I do 
not recollect pow (it is so many years since) whether what I have added in reference 
