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Election of Members. 
The following gentlemen were ballotted for, and elected :—Baron E. de 
Selys-Longchamps, as Honorary Member; the Rey. T. A. Preston, M.A. 
(formerly a Subscriber), as Ordinary Member; and G. C. Champion, Esq., 
as Annual Subscriber. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a small collection of butterflies, taken by Mr. 
Poole, in Madagascar. 
Mr. I’. Smith exhibited portions of two small branches of ash, from 
which the bark had been neatly removed all round. He had received them 
from the Rey. J. Hellins, of Exeter, accompanied by a note, in which Mr. 
Hellins stated that, one day last summer, he had observed a hornet busily 
engaged in removing the bark from these branches. Mr. Smith could not 
believe that the hornet was providing building-materials for its nest, as he 
had invariably found this to be composed of friable paper, apparently formed 
from dead or decayed wood. Upon referring to Reaumur’s ‘ Memoires,’ he 
found that that keen observer had recorded a precisely similar circumstance, 
and he, Mr. Smith, was inclined to think the imsect was endeavouring to 
extract the sap, from the inner wood, as food. 
Mr. Smith further called the attention of the Meeting to a letter from 
the Marquis Spinola, published in the ‘Revue Zoologique’ for 1844 
(p. 240), in which the writer maintained his belief in the luminosity 
of Fulgora, stating that M. Katfer, who accompanied Prince Eugéne 
de Carignan on his voyage, had observed, at Santos, in Brazil, a very large 
Fulgora emitting a brilliant light. On the strength of this and other 
statements, especially that of Baron Ransonnet respecting a Chinese 
species, Mr. Smith was quite of the opinion that Fulgora is luminious, at 
any rate occasionally, notwithstanding all that had been said and written to 
the contrary. 
Mr. Dunning exhibited a parasite, which he had recently taken from a 
peacock. This was evidently the Pediculus pavonis of Linné and the older 
authors; but, by all recent writers on these insects, it was termed 
Goniodes falcicornis of Nitzsch; and Nitzsch, in Germar’s ‘ Zeitschrift,’ 
actually gave Linné’s name as a synonym, for what reason he knew not. 
Mr. Lewis exhibited examples of antennal malformation in Lepidoptera, 
comprising (1) a specimen of Melita Cinxia, in which the apical half of 
one antenna was aborted; (2) Cymatophora diluta, with one antenna 
congenitally wanting; and (3) Scopelosoma satellitia in the same condition, 
and, in this specimen, the corresponding eye was enveloped in a cuticle. He 
also exhibited Meliteea Cinxia, with malformed hind wings. 
Mr. Butler exhibited examples of Ccenonympha Satyrion from the 
opposite sides of the Gemmi. These individuals showed marked variation, 
