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“The position of Ectrephes is uncertain; the fact of the elytra closely embracing 
and covering the abdomen cuts it off from the Pausside; in its 3-jointed antenne it 
approaches Gnostus, Wesfw., another isolated genus. The antenne arise from a 
cavity in front of the head, and the latter is so bent down that the mandibles almost 
touch the anterior coxe. The metasternum is very short, and the intermediate and 
posterior coxe are therefore closely approximate on each side, but widely apart as 
regards their fellows. The anterior coxe are exserted, cylindrical and divergent. 
The abdominal segments appear to be only four in number, owing probably to the 
union of the second and third; counting it as one only, that segment is of large size, 
whilst the third is reduced to a mere line. I regret that I have not successfully 
extracted the mouth, but so far as I could judge the mentum was very small, with two 
large fusiform palpi; I could uot distinguish the maxillary lobes, of which Gnostus 
has one only, and that very minute. I hope to give a figure of the insect, and to enter 
_into further details on a future occasion.” 
Prof. Westwood considered Ectrephes to belong to the Pausside, notwithstanding 
| that the abdomen was entirely covered by the elytra. 
July 2, 1866. 
Sir Joun Lussockx, Bart., President, in the chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
' The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:— 
’ Hewitson’s ‘ Exotic Butterflies, Part 59; presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ‘ The 
Zovlogist’ for July; by the Editor. ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ for 
July; by the Editors. 
The following additions by purchase were also announced :—Aubé, ‘ Pselaphiorum 
_ Monographia’; Chevrolat, ‘Coléoptéres du Mexique’; A. de Norguet, ‘ Catalogue 
; des Coleoptéres du Département du Nord’; J. Thomson, ‘ Arcana Nature’; West- 
wood, ‘ Arcana Entomologica.’. 
Election of Members. 
The Hon. Thomas De Grey, M.P., of 23, Arlington Street, and Christopher 
Ward, Esq., of Halifax, were elected Members. 
Exhibitions, §c. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited larve of Laverna phragmitella in a head of Typha latifolia ; 
and specimens of the Gelechia, very like G. leucomelanella, bred from Gypsophila 
saxifraga, to which reference was made at previous Meetings (ante, pp. x. Xv). 
Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen of Dianthecia cesia taken by Mr. Hopley in the 
Isle of Man, where the species had recently been discovered by Mr. Gregson (see ‘ The 
Entomologist,’ vol. iii. p. 103). 
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