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Catalogue of British Neuroptera. 

 " A Catalogue of British Neuroptera," compiled by Mr. M'Lachlan, the 

 family Ephemeridai by the Eev. A. E. Eaton, and published by the Society, 

 being the first part of the proposed General Catalogue of the Insects of the 

 British Isles, was on the table. 



6 June, 1870. 

 F. P. Pascoe, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors : — 

 •Proceedings of the Koyal Society,' No. 119; presented by the Society. 

 ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' 1869, parts 3 and 3 ; by the Society. 

 ' Journal of the Linnean Society,' Zoology, No. 48 ; by the Society. 

 ' Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift,' 1870, parts 1 and 2 ; by the Entom. 

 Soc. of Berlin. ' Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung,' 1870, Nos. 7 — 9 ; by the 

 Entom. Soc. of Stettin. ' Coleopterologische Hefte,' part 6 ; by the Editor. 

 ' The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. ii. No. 6 ; by the Editor. ' Catalogus 

 Hemipterorum Italise indigenarum ' ; by the Author, Dr. Garbiglietti. 'Note 

 sur le Byrsax (Bolitophagus) gibbifer'; by the Author, M. A. Preudhomme de 

 Borre. ' Memoire sur les Thyreopte rides et les Coptoderides'; by the Author, 

 Baron de Chaudoir. 



By purchase : — ' On European Spiders,' by Dr. T. Thorell. ' Ichneumonidum 

 Britannicorum Catalogus,' by the Eev. T. A. Marshall. 



Election of Member. 



F. V. Jacques, Esq., of Chertsey Road, Eedland, Bristol, was elected a 

 Member. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a partially gynandromorphous specimen of Brachy- 

 centrus subnubilus, captured at Cheshunt by Mr. Boyd : the maxillary palpi 

 and the left fore wing were of the female form, whilst aU the rest of the insect 

 was of the male form. (See Ent. Mo. Mag. vii. 19). This was only the 

 second instance of gynandromorphism in the Trichoptera which had come to 

 Mr. M'Lachlan 's knowledge. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited living specimens of Ateuchus semipuuctatus from 

 Venice, one of them having been incarcerated for three weeks in a bottle with 

 bruised laurel-leaves, without any apparent iU effect. 



Mr. Albert Mtiller, after referring to the breeding by Herr Hartmann of 

 various Lepidoptera from gall-like swellings on the twigs of juniper (see Proc, 



