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Paper read. 
Mr. Bates read a paper “On a Collection of Butterflies formed by Thomas Belt, 
Esq., in the interior of the Province of Maranham, Brazil.” During three months of 
the year 1866 spent at the gold mines of Montes Aureos, Mr. Belt obtained no less 
than 364 species of butterflies ; of these nine were described as new, and the paper 
contained some interesting observations on distribution, variation and mimicry. One 
new genus was characterized under the name of Pseudopheles, allied to Pheles and 
Esthemopsis. 
New Part of ‘ Transactions, 
Trans. Ent. Soc., third series, vol. v., part 6, being the second part published in 
1867, was on the table. 
June 3, 1867. 
Sir Jonx Luseock, Bart., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:— 
“Annales de la Société Entomologique de France,’ for 1866; presented by the Society. 
‘The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, 2nd Series, Vol. iii. Part 1; by the 
Society. ‘ Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia,’ Vols. iv. and v., 
and Vol. vi. No. 1; by the Society. ‘Verhandlungen der K. K. zoologisch-botan- 
ischen Gesellschaft in Wien, Vol. xvi.; by the Society. ‘Characters of some New 
Genera of the Coleopterous Family Cerambycide, by Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S., &c.; 
by the Author. ‘The Zoologist’ for June; by the Editor. ‘The Entomologist’s 
Monthly Magazine’ for June; by the Editors. 
Exhibitions, §c. 
Mr. Pascoe exhibited some Coleoptera from Graham’s Town, collected by Mr. 
Schiffman ; amongst them were a new Pycnopsis, a new Ceroplesis, three new species 
of the European genus Stenidea, a new form of Rhipiceride, a new genus of Prionide 
belonging to Lacordaire’s “groupe Closterides,’ and a new genus allied to 
Cerambyx. 
Mr. T. W. Wood (who was present as a visitor) exhibited several specimens of 
Vanessa Milberti from British Columbia, all agreeing in this particular—that the light 
coloured scales of the wings appeared to have been abraded, suggesting the notion that 
the light-coloured scales had been less firmly attached than the dark-coloured. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited the larva, pupa and imago of Earias siliquana, sent to him 
by Professor W. C. Williamsun, of Manchester, who wrote as follows: —“ The moth 
has almost destroyed the cotton crops in Egypt; it eats into the ovary of the flower in 
its early larval state, and goes into chrysalis in the cotton-ball, utterly destroying the 
cotton. Its ravages have extended over both Upper and Lower Egypt. The moth is 
of a bright green colour, like our little English prasinana of the oak ; can you identify 
