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5tli January, 1874. 
Prof. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, aiid thanks voted to the 
donors : — ' Proceedings of the Pioyal Society,' No. 147 ; presented by the 
Society. ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 
1873,' No. 2 ; by the Society. * Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera 
Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum,' part viii., by Francis 
Walker; by the Trustees. ' On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects,' 
by the Author, Sir John Lubbock, Bart. ' Contributions to a Knowledge 
of the Curculionidoe of the United States ; ' by the Author, George H. 
Horn, M.D. ' Sixth Annual Report of the United- States Geological Survey 
of the Territories embracing portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and 
Utah ; being a Report of Progress of the Explorations for the Year 1872,' 
by F, V. Hayden, United States Geologist ; by the Author. ' Synopsis of 
the Acrididse of North America,' by Cyrus Thomas, Ph.D. ; by the Author. 
'Exotic Butterflies,' part 89. 'Lepidoptera Exotica,' part xix., and ' Cistula 
Eutomologica,' part viii. ; by E. W. Janson. ' L'Abeille,' 1873, livr. x., 
and 1874, livr. i. ; by the Editor. * The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. v., 
nos. 10 and 11 ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Magazine ' for 
January ; by the Editors. ' Newman's Entomologist' and ' The Zoologist' 
for January ; by the Editor. 
Election of Member. 
Captain George Cockle, of 9, Bolton Gardens, was balloted for and elected 
a Member of the Society. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. Meldola exhibited some photographs of minute insects taken with the 
camera obscura and microscope. 
Mr. M'Lachlan called attention to a paper in the last part of the 
'Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France,' by M. Bar and Dr. 
Laboulbone, on a species of the Bombycidfe closely related to the tiger- 
moths, described and figured by M. Bar as Palustra Laboulbcnei, and of 
very extraordinaiy habits, the larva being aquatic, living in the canals of 
the sugar plantations in Cayenne, and feeding upon an aquatic plant. The 
hairy larva had all the form usual for the group, and breathed by means of 
small spiracles — a supply of air being apparently entangled in its hairs. 
