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October 3, 1864. 
F. P. Pascor, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:— 
‘Exotic Butterflies, by W. C. Hewitson, Part 52; presented by W. Wilson Saunders, 
Esq. ‘Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. viii. Part 1; by the 
Society. ‘ Boston Journal of Natural History,’ Vol. vii. No. iv.; ‘ Proceedings of the 
Boston Natural History Society,’ Vol. ix. Sheets 12—20; by the Society. ‘ Notes on 
the Family Zygenide, by A.S. Packard, jun.; by the Author. ‘The Zoologist’ and 
‘The Entomologist’ for October; by the Editor. ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly 
Magazine,’ No. 5; by the Editors. ‘The Journal of the Society of Arts’ for October; 
by the Society. ‘The Reader’ for October; by the Editor. ‘ Popular Natural History 
of Great Yarmouth, by B. T. Lowne; by the Author. 
The following addition by purchase was also announced :—‘ Genera des Colé- 
opteres d'Europe,’ Livr. 121—123. 
Exhibitions, &e. 
The Secretary announced the arrival of, and exhibited, a miscellaneous collection 
of insects from India, collected and presented to the Society by Lieut. R. C. Beavan, 
Bengal Revenue Survey. Probably the most interesting specimen was a small 
Mantis, which Prof. Westwood believed to be hitherto unique in his own col- 
lection. 
Mr. Janson exhibited an extensive series of insects of all orders collected by 
Mr. Thomas Pullinger, R.N., chiefly in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro. 
Major Parry sent for exhibition a box of beetles collected at Gibraltar by bis son, 
Lieut. Parry, R.A. 
Mr. 8. Stevens exhibited a large Curculio, from the body of which a number of 
filamentous Fungi had grown. Prof. Westwood remarked upon the frequent occur- 
rence of fungus-covered Curculionide, and suggested that it arose from those beetles 
dying amongst decayed wood and in damp situations conducive to fungoid growth. 
Prof. W. also alluded to the different kinds of “mould” found upon beetles, some of 
which were soft, like cotton-wool, whilst others were hard and required to be actually 
scrubbed off the specimen: he thought there were not less than six or eight kinds of 
mould to be found on insects. 
Mr. Bond, after referring to the exhibition at the previous Meeting (ante p. 38) of 
larve of an Agrotis, which had proved very destructive to turnips, and giving corrobora- 
live testimony to the extent of the damage done by the insects, mentioned that, on 
opening a partridge which he recently shot, he found the crop full of the larve which 
infested the turnips. 
Mr. David Sharp sent for exhibition three species of Coleoptera new to the 
British List, and one of them apparently undescribed: all three were recently cap- 
tured by him in Scotland. The following description and notes were also com- 
municated :— 
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