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Election of Members. 
Samuel McCaul, Esq., B.C.L., of the Rectory House, London Bridge; and Henry 
Reeks, Esq., of the Manor House, Thruxton, were severally ballotted for, and elected 
Members. 
Exhibitions, §c. 
Professor Westwood, on behalf of Mr. 8S. Stone, exhibited a specimen of Acherontia 
Atropos which had been born with only one antenna, the right-hand organ being 
entirely wanting ; also the pupa-skin from which the moth had emerged, and which 
showed a rudimentary antenna, which, however, was not placed in its normal position 
aloug the side of the thorax, but projected out from the body and was then curved or 
thrown backwards, like the horn of a cow or ram. 
Mr. F. Smith had a new locality to mention for Acherontia Atropos; a living 
specimen of the moth had been that day caught in the Reading Room at the British 
Museum. 
Mr. Dunning mentioned the capture of a specimen of Chcrocampa Celerio on 
the 29th of September last, at Brantingham, near Brough, Yorkshire. It was taken 
in the net, shortly after 6 p.M., whilst hovering over a bed of Geranium. The captor 
was Mr. R. C. Kingston, the gentleman whose previous capture in 1846 of the same 
species in the same locality, but on the flower of Physianthus albicans, was recorded 
in the ‘ Zoologist’ (Zool. 1863). Mr. Kingston described the flowers of the Physian- 
thus as forming an excellent insect-trap; they were very sweet and attractive, and on 
the slizbtest touch to the stamens by the proboscis of an insect entering the nectary, 
the stamens and anthers closed firmly round and held the insect fast; he had seen the 
plant with dozens of insects upon it, amongst which Plusia Gamma was generally 
most abundant. Mr, Kingston also mentioned the abundance at Brantingham (as 
elsewhere during the present season) of Macroglossa Stellatarum, and of the larve of 
Acheiontia Atropos; and ou the 380th of September he had taken spevimens of Cerastis 
spadicea on ivy-bloom. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited a female specimen of Sterrha sacraria captured near 
Worthing ov the 19th of August last, and six specimens which had been reared by the 
Rev. J. Hellins from eggs laid by the aforesaid female on that day. Seven eggs were 
deposited, but one was crushed during transmission to Mr. Hellins; the remaiving 
six all hatched on the 29th of August, the larve were fed on Polygonum aviculare, 
spun up between the 19th and 23rd of September, and were all in pupa by the 30th. 
The first moth, a female, emerged on the 15th of October, two more females on the 
17th, a fourth female on the 19th, a male on the 25th, and Jastly another male on the 
28th of October. A full description of the egg, larva and pupa has been published 
by Mr. Hellins (Eut. Mo. Mag. ii, 134), and a coloured drawing by Mr. Buckler of 
several varieties of the larva was exhibited. Of the six moths thus bred not one was 
like its mother or bore any great resemblance to what has hitherto been considered to 
be the normal Sterrha sacraria ; they differed also considerably from one another. Both 
the males had the upper wings suffused with an exquisite rosy tint, and the under 
wings, instead of being pure white, were clouded with fuscous ; one female had the 
upper wings variegated with yellow and rose-colour, and the under wings yellowish ; 
the remaining three females had the upper wings of a delicate buff, the oblique trans- 
verse stripe being blackish, and the cilia in one instance buff, in the others rosy, whilst 
the under wings were yellowish white. Auy of these specimens, if caught at large, 
