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Regions:” forty-seven new species were described, many of which were exhibited ; 
and the descriptions were preceded by introductory remarks on the geographical dis- 
tribution of the Pieridz and on the existence in that family of cases of mimicry. 
Mr. Herbert Jenner Fust, jun., communicated a paper “On the Distribution of 
Lepidoptera in Great Britain and Ireland,” showing the occurrence or non-occurrence 
of all the indigenous species, except the Tortrices and Tine, in provinces and sub- 
provinces, after the manner adopted with respect to plants in Watson’s ‘Cybele 
Britannica.’ 
Mr. Edward Saunders communicated a paper entitled “* Notes on Rare and Descrip- 
tions of New Species of Buprestide, collected by Mr. Lamb at Penang.” Fifteen new 
species were characterized, one of them being the type of a new genus, Xenopsis, 
closely allied to Castalia. 
March 4, 1867. 
FrepDerick Smiru, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:— 
©On certain Entomological Speculations, a Review, by A.S. Packard, jun., M.D.; 
presented by the Author. ‘The Zoologist’ for March; by the Editor. ‘The 
Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ fur March; by the Editors. 
Purchased: — Lepelleticr de St. Fargeau et Brullé, ‘ Histoire Naturelle des 
Insectes Hymenoptéres, 4 vols. and 4 parts of coloured plates. 
Election of Member. 
Alexander H. Clarke, Esq., of 16, Furnival’s Inn, E.C., was ballotted for, and 
elected a Member. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
The Secretary exhibited a box of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera collected in Mada- 
gascar and Mayotte by M. Francois Pollen, of Leyden, by whom they were presented 
to the Society; perbaps the most interesting insect was Sternotomis Thomsoni, 
Buquet. 
Mr. Bond exhibited specimens of a small Ichneumon, parasitic on the larva of 
Dasypolia templi, no less than 447 having emerged from a single larva. 
The Secretary exhibited drawings of the male and female of a species of Phasma, 
together with the larva and pupa of an Ichneumon which infested the female, and the 
imago of a species of Chalcidide which was said to infest the egg of the Phasma; 
and read the following note, communicated by Prof. Huxley :— 
“ Anisomorpha buprestoides.—This Phasma, found by Titian R. Peale in South 
America, has come under my observation in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Jamaica, in 
one locality only, to which it curiously seems confined. As nothing appears to be 
