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December 4, 1865. 
F. P. Pascor, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors :—‘ Me- 
moires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genéve, Tome XVIII, 
le Partie; presented by the Society. ‘ Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Natu- 
ralistes de Moscou,—1864, Nos. 2, 3 and 4,—1865, No.1; by the Society. ‘Tijd- 
schrift voor Entomologie,’ Vol. VIII, Parts 1—4; by the Entomological Society of 
the Netherlands. ‘ Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 1864, 4e tim.; 
by the Society. ‘ Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung,’ 1865, Nos. 4—6, and Nos, 10— 
12; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ‘ The Journal of Entomology, No. 13; 
by the Proprietors. ‘ Synopsis of the Bombycide of the United States, Part 2, by 
A. S. Packard, jun.; by the Author. ‘ The Zoologist’ for December; by the Editor. 
‘ The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ for December; by the Editors. 
Election of Members. 
The Rev. W. Farren White, Stonehouse Vicarage, Gloucestershire; and John 
Henry Hartwright, Esq., Terrace, Kennington Park, were severally ballotted for, and 
elected Members. 
Echibitions, §c. 
The Secretary exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, 
made at Moulmein and in the Salween Valley, British Burmah, in July and August, 
1865, by Lieut. R. C. Beavan. Amongst the Coleoptera, Mr. Baly detected a new 
species of Prioptera. 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a box of admirably-preserved Lepidoptera from Santa 
Marta, part of the collection of the late Mr. Bouchard ; and a specimen of Goliathus 
giganteus captured by Mr. Du Chaillu about 100 miles inland from Fernand-Vaz, 
and thence brought home in his pocket, being the only insect which he was able to 
carry away with him on his recent hasty retreat from the interior of Western Africa. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited a remarkable variety of Tinea cloacella, bred by Mr. C.S. 
Gregson, from dead birch trees at Llangollen; the moth was entirely suffused with a 
dark ruddy brown (almost coppery) colour. 
Mr. F. Smith exhibited a series of bred specimens of the Tenthredinidous insect, 
Creesus septentrionalis ; he had found the larve nearly full-fed on the 20th of August 
last; in four or five days they buried themselves, and within a month the perfect flies 
emerged, much to his surprise, as he had not expected them to hatch until next 
spring. 
Mr. McLachlan believed the fly to be double-brooded ; he had captured it at Ran- 
noch in June last. 
Mr. F. Smith (on behalf of Dr. J. E. Gray) exhibited specimens of a greasy- 
looking Noctua, known as the “ Bugong” moth (probably the Agrotis spina, Guenée), 
sent from Australia by Dr. George Bennett, and read the following extract from that 
gentleman’s ‘ Wanderings in New South Wales’ (vol. i. p. 265) :— 
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