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The President stated that this communication had been considered by 
the Council of the Society, and they had resolved that Sir Sidney S. Saunders, 
Messrs. C. O. Waterhouse, and H. A. Fitch be appointed a committee to 
investigate the subject and report. 
Papers read, dc. 
Lord Walsingham read a paper entitled The Tortricidae, Tineida, and 
_ Pterophoride of South Africa,” which included a complete list of the 
described South African species, characterizing several as new, which had 
lately been collected by Mr. W. D. Gooch in Natal, and made remarks on 
the affinities and general geographical distribution of the species, a few of 
which were exhibited. 
Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a memoir ‘‘On the genus Sypna of 
Guénée, a group of Lepidoptera of the tribe Noctuites.” 
Mr. W. L. Distant communicated “ Descriptions of Rhynchota from the 
Australian and Pacific Regions,” including, with other Pentatomide, four 
new species of the genus Menida from Australia. 
July 6, 1881. 
H. T. Srainton, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 
respective donors. 
Election of a Member, éc. 
Mr. George Henry (88, Wellington Square, Hastings) was balloted 
for and elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. Mr. A. 8. Olliff 
(36, Mornington Road, Regent’s Park, N.W.) was elected an Annual 
Subscriber to the Society. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited the sexes of Morpho Adonis, Cram.; the 
female of this butterfly apparently had previously been quite unknown. 
Miss HK. A. Ormerod exhibited some elm-leaves received from Islay, 
Argyll., which were almost bleached, the parenchyma being cleared away 
by minute larve; also several sawfly larvee from a meadow at Rochdale, 
Lancashire, where they were committing extensive ravages; specimens of 
a sawfly larva from Clitheroe, Lancashire, received with the Noctua larve 
now so destructive to grass in that district; and further specimens of a 
sawfly larva received from Marlborough, Wilts, where it is attacking the 
