from the damaged cocoons was equal in quality to that obtained from the 
perfect cocoons, and did not require to be carded. 
The President remarked that the library at the new Museum at Oxford 
had been very much infested, of late, with Anthreni ; and he was very glad 
to observe that there was a paper by Dr. Emery in the ' Bulletino della 
Societa Eutomologica Italiana,' on a new method of preserving collections 
from their ravages. 
17 March, 1873. 
Prof Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors ; — ' Proceedings of the Koyal Society,' No. 142 ; presented by the 
Society. ' Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society 
of London for the Year 1872,' and Index 18G1 — 70 ; by the Society. ' The 
Canadian Entomologist,' vol. v. No. 1 ; by the Editor. ' L'Abeille, 1872,' 
livr. 3 & 4; by the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Annual for 1873'; by 
H. T. Staiuton, Esq. 
Election of Member. 
M. Ernest Olivier, of Moulins (Allier), France, a grandson of the cele- 
brated French entomologist of that name, was balloted for and elected a 
Foreign Member. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
The President exhibited a specimen of a very rare species of Paussus from 
Abyssinia, in which the hinder part of the thorax was constricted, quite 
unlike any of the other species. 
Mr. F. Smith exhibited a further collection of ants sent by Mr. G. A. James 
Rothney, from Calcutta. They were collected by him in a very restricted 
area, principally in the Eden Gardens, Calcutta, between the months of 
June and October of last year. The specimens which Mr. Smith had been 
able to determine were thirty in number, namely: — 
FormiddcB (eight species). — Camponotus corapressus, Fahr.; C. syl- 
vaticus, 0//i'.; C. opaciventris, Mrt?/r, n.sp.; C. Bacchus, /S/««7/j ; Polyrhachis 
spiniger, Mayr., n. sp. ; P. Shrinax, Roger ; P. laevissimus, Smith; CEco- 
phylla smaragdina, Fabr. Pnnericlce (six species). — Bradyponera longitarsis, 
Mayr., u. gen. & sp. ; Lobopelta chinensis, Mayr.; L. mutabilis, Smith; 
L. punctiventris, Mayr., n. sp. ; L. diminuta, Smith; Diacamma vagans, 
Smith. Myrmicidcc (fifteen species). — Crematogaster Rothneyi, Mayr, u. sp. ; 
