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April 4, 1864, 
F. P. Pascor, Esq., President, in the chair. 
Mr, Pascoe thanked the Society for electing him to fill the Presidential Chair; 
and nominated as Vice-Presidents Mr. Stainton, Mr. A. R. Wallace and the Rey. 
Hamlet Clark. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:— 
‘Sitzungsberichte der Konigl. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Minchen,’ 
1863, II. Heft 4; presented by the Academy. ‘The Zovlogist’ for April; by the 
Editor. ‘The Classification of Animals based on the Principle of Cephalization. 
No. III. Classification of Herbivores;’ ‘Note on the Position of Amphibians 
among the Classes of Vertebrates;’ by the Author, James D. Dana. ‘Stettiner 
Entomologische Zeitung,’ 1864, Nos. 1—3; by the Society. ‘Exotic Butterflies, 
Part 50; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ‘The Natural History of the Tineina,’ Vol. viii., 
containing Gracilaria, Parti., aud Ornix, Parti.; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. ‘The 
Intellectual Observer, No. 27; by the Publishers. ‘The Reader’ for March; by the 
Editor, ‘The Journal of the Society of Arts’ for March; by the Society. 
The following additions by purchase were also announced :—Grenier, A., ‘ Cata- 
logue des Coléoptéres de France. De Marseul, S. A., ‘Catalogue des Coléoptéres 
d'Europe et du Bassin de la Méditerranée en Afrique et en Asie,’ deuxiéme edition. 
Election of Member. 
_ P. H. Harper, Esq., of 30, Cambridge Street, Hyde Park Gardens, was ballotted 
for and elected a Member of the Society. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. Frederick Smith—after remarking that his attention had been called to a note 
appended by the Editor of the ‘ Zoologist’ (Zool. 8975) to an extract from his Address 
to the Society on the 25th of January last, the passage extracted being that relating 
to the luminosity of Fulgora, and the note being in the following words, “ I believe the 
Honduras fire-fly with intermittent light is an Elater; if so, the Fulgora question 
remains in statu quo,’—said that he had since had supplied the further evidence of 
another eye-witness of the luminosity of the lanthorn-fly. Mr. James Smith, of 
23, Wilton Row, Queen’s Road, Dalston, made the following statement :— 
“The Fulgora candelaria is found most plentifully between the months of May 
and August; it is occasionally seen in the winter, but these, I think, are hybernated 
specimens; it is then not luminous, and very much faded. In the summer it has a 
pale blue or green light at the end of the snout, which may be considerably augmented 
by a gentle pressure of the insect; it is brightest in the female. It is common throughout 
all China, and called the ‘ Star of Eve,’ ‘ Eye of Confucius,’ ‘ Spark-fly’; and the same 
insect is called, in the winter, the ‘ Flying Elephant,’ perhaps in reference to its long 
proboscis. When the insect is settled the light is more luminous than when it is 
flying, and when the male and female have mated it is wholly extinguished. The 
