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November 18, 1867. 
Prof. Westwoop, Vice-President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, aud thanks voted to the donor:— 
‘Journal of the Linnean Society,’ Zoology, Vol. ix. No. 37; and ‘ Proceedings of the 
Linnean Society ;’ presented by the Society. 
Election of Members. 
Frederick Bates, Esq., of Leicester, and H.J.S. Pryer, Esq., of Highgate, were 
severally ballutted for, and elected Annual Subscribers. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. Bond exhibited eight specimens of Sterrha sacraria, bred from the egg by 
Mr. Rogers, of Freshwater, Isle of Wight; together with two females by which the 
eggs were laid. One of the females was captured at midday on the 14th of August, 
1867, and on the 16th laid three eggs; the other was taken at “sugar” on the 16th of 
August, and on the 19th laid six eggs. All the nine eggs were hatched on the 23rd 
and 24th of August, and the larve were fed on Polygonum aviculare. On the 14th of 
September three larve began to spin up, on the 19th four more, and on the 23rd the 
remaining two. The moths emerged, one on the 17th of October, two on the 19th, 
three on the 25th, and two on the 27th; one died in pupa. The times of development 
in the cold and wet season of 1867 thus agreed very nearly with those of the specimens 
bred by Mr. Hellins in the hot and dry season of 1865, and described by Mr. 
M‘Lachlan (see Trans. Ent. Soc. 3rd series, vol. ii. p. 453, pl. xxiii. figs. 2—7), and 
the food-plant was the same; but the specimens now exhibited were unlike Mr. 
Hellins’s specimens, being all of the same pattern, plain, buff-coloured, but very 
dark. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan mentioned that this species, which was originally described by 
Linneus from specimens captured in Barbary, and which was extremely abundant at 
the Cape of Good Hope, had been found as far north as Perthshire. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited a specimen of Ebulea catalaunalis, a new British Pyralis. 
It was captured at Cheshunt on the 18th of September last, by Mr. W. C. Boyd, whose 
attention was attracted by its peculiar flight, resembling that of a heuse-fly. The 
insect was quite distinct from Nascia cilialis; but in consequence of Stephens having 
erroneously given catalauualis as a synonyin of cilialis, continental authors were in the 
habit of quoting the latter insect as identical with catalaunalis. 
Mr. Higgins exhibited a large collection of butterflies from Labuan and Borneo; 
amongst them were Ornithoptera Brookiana, Prothoe Calydonia, Amathusia, &c., &c., 
and several species hitherto unique among Mr. Wallace’s captures. 
Mr. Trimen exhibited a fine species of Papilio from Uruguay, allied to P. Americus 
of Kollar. 
Prof. Westwood had recently received from Dr. Hooker the cocoon and chrysalis of 
a Saturnia, from the larva of which the Chinese obtained the “ gut” used by fisher- 
men: the moth was not yet known, but he hoped to breed it. The “ gut” was in fact 
the silk-reservoir of the larva, which was drawn out about twenty-four hours before 
