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discriminate application of two names to the same thing; he insisted also upon the — 
desirability—to prevent confusion, amounting to necessity—of having one uniform 
termination for the names of groups of co-ordinate value and importance; and 
further, that the proper termination for the name of a family was -ide, the form 
almost invariably adopted by English entomologists, and which was now being adopted 
also by the French. Prof. Westwood expressed himself in favour of the nomen- 
clature introduced by Kirby, and the employment of -ide as the termination of 
the name of a family or of a group of insects corresponding to one of the old Linnean 
genera. 
New Part of ihe ‘ Transactions. 
A new Part of the ‘Transactions’ (Third Series, Vol. ii. Part 4) was on the table. 
May 1, 1865. 
H. T. Srarnron, Esq., V.-P., in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors :—‘ Pro- 
ceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin,’ Vol. iv. Part 2; presented by the 
Society. ‘ Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie, Vol.ix.; by the Society. 
“Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d’ Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, Tome xvii., 
2e Partie; by the Society. ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ for May; by the 
Editors. ‘The Zoologist’ for May; by the Editor. 
Election of Members. 
F. D. Godman, Esq., of Park Hatch, Godalming; J.T. D. Llewellyn, Esq., of 
Ynisygerwn, Neath; and W. H. Groser, Esq., of 19, Claremont Square, London; 
were severally ballotted for, and elected Members. 
C. B. Clarke, Esq., Fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge; Edward Clift, Esq., 
of Lewisham; and Mr. W. Farren, of 10, Crescent, Cambridge; were severally 
ballotted: for, and elected Annual Subscribers. 
Death of William Sharp MacLeay. 
The Secretary read from a Sydney paper of the 30th of January, 1865, an obituary 
notice of William Sharp MacLeay, whose death, at the age of seventy-two, occurred 
on the 26th of that month. Mr. MacLeay was elected a Member of this Society in 
1836 and a Member of the Council for 1837, but resigned prior to his departure for 
Australia in 1839. 
Exhibitions, &e. 
Prof. Westwood mentioned that with reference to the jigger, the subject of some 
discussion at the previous Meeting, Mr. F. Smith had called his attention to a passage 
in Waterton’s ‘ Wanderings in South America,’ pp. 173, 174, as tending to show that 
the larvze fed on the flesh in which they were deposited. He considered, however, that 
further observation on this point was necessary. 
Mr. 8. Stevens produced a Cassida, which he had hoped to have exhibited alive; 
it had been found some days previously in London, near a newly-vpened case of 
Orchids, but had unfortunately died a few hours before the Meeting. Mr. Baly 
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