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" Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley " (Coleoptera 

 conclusion of the Ceranibycida3) ; l)y Mr. H. W. Bates. 



" Descriptions of some new Genera and Species of Australian Curcu- 

 liouidae ; " by Mr. F. P. Pascoe. 



" Notes on the Eurytominae ; " by Mr. F. Walker. 



New Part of ' Transactions.' 

 Part 3 of the ' Transactions for 1870," published in August, was on the 

 Table. 



21 November, 1870. 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donoi-s : — ' Proceedings of the Pioyal Society,' No. 123 ; and ' Catalogue of 

 Scientific Papers (1800 — 1863),' vol. iv. ; presented by the Royal Society. 

 ' Bullettiuo della Societa Entomologica Italiana,' 1870, part 3 ; by the 

 Society. ' Horae Societatis Eutomologicae Rossicae,' vol. vii. Nos. 1 — 3; 

 by the Society. ' Die Orthopteren uud Neuropteren Kurlands,' ' Beitrage 

 zur Kenntniss der Hymenopteren-fauna Russlands,' ' Die genuinen Ich- 

 ueumoniden verwandten Tribus in Russland, vorzugsweise in Kurland,' and 

 ' Enneas Ichneumonidarum Curionae ; ' by the Author, Pastor J. H. Kawall. 

 ' On the Cultivation of Silk in the Australian Colonies ; ' by the Author, 

 Captain T. Hutton. ' Oribata geniculata, Latr., a mite injurious to Pinus 

 sylvestris in Scotland,' and ' The Teachings of Galls ; ' by the Author, Albert 

 Miiller, Esq. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. Butler exhibited a large number of Diurnal Lepidoptera, in illustra- 

 tion of the paper mentioned below. They were chiefly Hesperiidte, from the 

 Kaden Collection, now in the possession of Mr. Herbert Druce. 



Mr. Bond exhibited both sexes of Psyche reticella, Newm., taken near 

 Gravesend in 1870, by Mr. D. J. Button, the female being bred, and now 

 for the first time known : in colour it is quite different from the female of 

 any other British species of Psyche, being of a clear yellowish horn-colour, 

 with bands or rings on the body of a dark vandj'ke-brown or nearly black ; 

 in fact, it is very similar when alive to a small larva of Euchelia jacobsese, 

 but after death it becomes nearly black. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited Acidalia strigaria, Hubn., from Gravesend, 

 and Pempelia obductella, F.-v.-R., from Norfolk ; these were also taken by 

 Mr. Button during the present season, and were both new species to the 

 British list. 



