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August 6, 1866. 
Professor WEestwoop, V.-P., in the chair. 
A special vote of thanks to Mr. W. Wilson Saunders was passed, in acknowledg- 
ment of the hospitable reception given to the Members of the Society at Reigate, on 
the 6th ultimo. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors :— 
‘Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. xxv. part 2; presented by the Society. 
‘Verhandlungen der K.-K. zool.-botan. Gesellschaft in Wien,’ vol. xv.; by the 
Society. ‘On the Metamorphoses of Insects, by Sir John Lubbock, Bart.; by the 
Author. ‘The Zoologist’ for August; by the Editor. ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly 
Magazine’ for August; by the Editors. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. 8. Stevens exhibited a collection of insects sent by Mr. Reed from Bahia, 
chiefly Coleoptera, and amongst which were some fine Cicindelide and Carabidae, 
Odontochile, Dercyllus, Scarites, &c.; also a new Cetonia from Sierra Leone; and 
three species of Pogonostoma sent by Mr. Gerrard from Madagascar. 
Prof. Westwood said that since the July Meeting he had had an opportunity of 
examining the remarkable beetle then exhibited and described by Mr. Pascoe, under 
the name of Ectrephes formicarum (ante, p. xvi.) ; it did not belong to the Paussidx, nor 
was it allied to Gnostus; the mouth was different from anything with which he was 
acquainted, possessing enormous mandibles, with an elongated triangular or conical 
moveable lobe; this was another instance of the extreme modification of form found 
amongst insects frequenting the nests of ants. 
Mr. Janson exhibited a box of Coleoptera collected by Mr. Charles Turner in the 
New Forest, amongst which was Quedius dilatatus found in the larva-burrows of 
Cossus ligniperda. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited a remarkably dark variety of Cabera pusaria, captured 
by Mr. Dorville at Alphington, near Exeter; the specimen was a male, and, whilst 
the body retained the ordinary milky hue, the wings were quite sericeous and fuscous. 
Mr. Bond exhibited Scoparia basistrigalis, a new species, recently characterized by 
Dr. Knaggs (Ent. Mo. Mag. iii. 1), and for comparison therewith specimens of | 
S. ambigualis, the most nearly-allied British species. 
Mr. Bond also exhibited two specimens of Catoptria microgrammana, a rare coast 
insect, and two specimens of Sericoris euphorbiana (Zeller), a species which had for | 
some years been unique as British in the cabinet of Mr. Shepherd: both species were 
taken at Folkestone by Mr. Meek during the present season. 
Prof. Westwood mentioned that it was only within the last few days that he had 
bred any of the perfect insect of Bombyx Cynthia at Oxford; so that his prospect of a 
second crop of Ailanthus silk was this year hopeless. Others, however, had succeeded 
in rearing the moth at an earlier period. 
