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well-known traveller Mr. T. Baines. He exhibited the insect, which he 
proposed to call Bolbotritus Bainesi. It belonged to Lacordaire’s group 
‘Cerambycides vrais,’ and was remarkable for the large and bulbose 
third antennal joint, the succeeding joints being much shortened. From 
the same locality he also exhibited examples of Onthophagus rangifer, 
which, instead of being bright coppery as in the Zambesi individuals, were 
bright green, though presenting no structural differences. 
Mr. Bates also read a description of a new species of Mallaspis from 
Chiriqui, near Panama, allied to M. Beltii: this he named M. preecellens. 
5 June, 1871. 
J. W. Dunnine, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced,, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ No. 128; presented by the 
‘Society. ‘Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society 
of London,’ 1870, Parts 1—3; by the Society. ‘Annales de la Société 
Entomologique de Belgique,’ tome xiii.; by the Society. ‘Mémoires de la 
Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genéve,’ tomes ii. & iv., 
& tome xx., 2° Partie; by the Society. ‘Synopsis des Cordulines,’ par 
M. Edm. de Selys Longchamps; by the Author. ‘The Zoologist’ for June ; 
by the Editor. ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ for June; by the 
Editors. ‘The Canadian Entomologist,’ No. 12; by the Editor. ‘The 
Silk Supply Journal,’ No. 10; by the Silk Supply Association. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
The Secretary read the following letter (dated May 9th), received from 
the Rev. L. Jenyns, of Bath, concerning the newspaper reports, alluded to 
at the last Meeting, as to the supposed showers of insects, or other 
organisms, occurring at that city :— 
“Seeing in the ‘ Atheneum’ that mention was made at the last Meeting 
of the Entomological Society of a ‘so-called storm of insects’ that had fallen 
lately at Bath on two occasions, with reference to the inaccuracy of news- 
paper reports in scientific matters, I venture to send, for the information of 
the Members of the Society, a statement of so much as I know respecting 
the phenomenon in question. I did not witness it, indeed I was not in 
Bath at the time; but a person who keeps a small inn near the Midland 
Railway-station, where the phenomenon was observed, on my requesting to 
see them, showed me some of the organisms still alive, which he had kept 
in a tumbler of water since the time of their falling. This was several days 
