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Paper Read, 
Mr. Edward Saunders read a paper intituled “ Catalogue of Buprestide collected 
by the late M. Mouhot jn Siam, &c.; with Descriptions of new Species.” Forty-four 
species were enumerated, of which thirty-three were described as new; three new 
genera were characterized—Cardiaspis, allied to Dicercomorpha of Henri Deyrolle ; 
Engycera, allied to Melobasis; and Oncomea, between Brachys and Pachyscelus. 
New Part of ‘ Transactions, 
Trans. Ent. Soc. third series, vol. ii. Part 6 (being the concluding part of that 
volume) was announced as ready for distribution. 
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April 2, 1866. 
Str Joun Luezock, Bart., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:— 
‘Exotic Butterflies,” by W. C. Hewitson, part 58; presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
* Monographie des Platypides, par F. Chapuis; by the Author. ‘ Proceedings of the 
Royal Society, Vol. xv. No. 81; by the Society. ‘The Zoologist’ for April; by the 
Editor. ‘The Eutomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ for April; by the Editors. 
Election of Member. 
John Watson, Esq., of Rose Hill, Bowdon, Cheshire, was ballotted for and elected 
a Member. 
Exhibitions. 
Mr. William Rogers sent for exhibition specimens of the ichneumon Pimpla 
oculatoria, which he had bred from the egg-bag of a spider found under the loose bark 
of an vak-fence. ‘s 
Mr. F. Smith and Mr. Desvignes both said that they had bred the species, but 
always from bramble-sticks. 
Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited three interesting objects from New South Wales. 
Firsi, a number of (empty) eggs, probably of a Chrysopa, disposed in a line or chain 
on, or rather over, the bark of a tree; they were elongate in shape, about twice as long 
as broad, formed a continuous and connected chain, and each was supported by a 
hair-like pedicel about a quarter of an inch above™the level of the bark; but the 
peculiarity of the arrangement was that the first, third, fifth, and so on, were disposed 
with their longer axes all in the same direction, and rested on pedicels which were 
