tale’) 
M‘Lachlan, and Fitch be appointed a Committee to investigate the matter 
and report. 
Papers read. 
Mr. Arthur G. Butler communicated a continuation of his “ Descriptions 
of new Genera and Species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera from Japan,” 
treating of the Noctua. 
Mr. Roland Trimen read a ‘“ Note on the capture of the paired sexes 
of Papilio Cenea, Stoll (P. Merope, auct.), in Natal,” and exhibited the 
specimens, which had lately been received from the captor, Col. Bowker. 
June 1, 1881. 
H. T. Srarnton, Esq., H'.R.S., &e., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 
respective donors. 
Election of a Subscriber. 
The Rey. EH. N. Bloomfield, M.A. (Guestling Rectory, Hastings, Sussex), 
was balloted for and elected an Annual Subscriber to the Society. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. J. Jenner Weir, on behalf of Mr. J. W. Douglas, read the following 
notes on various Homoptera, and exhibited the specimens referred to :— 
Aleurodes carpint, Koch. Found on the underside of the leaves of 
hornbeam-bushes at Bexley Wood, on May 28th. 
Orthezia cataphracta, Shaw. Females found in abundance in April and 
May, at the roots of Carex and grass, growing among damp moss, at Pitlochry, 
Perthshire, by Mr.G. Norman. Living examples in their native moss were 
also exhibited. 
Orthezia, n.s. Females from Pitlochry, collected by Mr. Norman, and 
the same species taken at Bexley Wood on May 28th. Mr. Douglas 
considered this a new species, and proposes to call it O. Normani; the 
disposition and form of the flaky cereous covering matter being, especially 
on the dorsal region, entirely different from either O. cataphracta or 
O. urtice. 
Orthezia urtice, Linn. Adult females and larve. Also three living 
examples found yesterday (May 31st) at Darenth Wood, with a piece of the 
plant (Stellaria holostea) on which they exclusively occur. 
Mr. Douglas referred to the new Orthezia thus :—* It will be observed 
that the waxy covering, on the dorsal region, in O. cataphracta follows the 
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