4 December, 1871. 
A. R. Watxace, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and-thanks yoted to the 
donors :—‘ Annales de la Société Entomologique de France,’ 4e Série, 
tome x. and Supplement; presented by the Society. ‘Bullettino della 
Societa Entomologica Italiana,’ anno iii., trim. 1 & 2; by the Society. 
‘Mittheilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft,’ vol. iii. 
No. 8; by the Society. ‘L’Abeille,’ tome vii., livr. 4, 5, 6 & 7; tome viii. 
livr. 8, 9; by the Editor. ‘The Canadian Entomologist,’ vol. iii., Nos. 
7&8; by the Editor. ‘Additamenta et Emendationes ad Catalogum 
methodicum et synonymicum Hemipterorum Italiae indigenarum,’ auctore 
Antonio Garbiglietti, M.D.; by the Author. ‘ Description de deux Dorcadion 
nouveaux et observations sur quelques autres espéces du méme genre,’ 
par M. A. Chevrolat; by the Author. ‘ Beitrige zur Parthenogenesis der 
Arthropoden,’ von C. T. EH. v. Siebold; by the Author. ‘The Zoologist’ 
for December; by the Editor. ‘ The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ for 
December ; by the Editors. 
By purchase :—‘ A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland,’ 
by John Blackwall, F.L.S. Parts I. and II. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. 8. Stevens exhibited, on behalf of Mr, Shearwood, an extraordinarily 
dark variety of Argynnis Aglaia, captured near Teignmouth. 
Mr. Bond exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Doubleday, varieties or malforma- 
tions of British Lepidoptera, as follows:—(1) Meliteea Artemis, with the 
antenne scarcely more than half the usual length; (2) Pieris rape, female, 
with only a faint trace of the second spot on the upper wing; (3) Anchocelis 
lunosa, male, taken at sugar, the right-hand upper wing much broader than 
the other, and differently formed; (4) Cheimatobia brumata, naturally with 
only three wings, and varying in colour and markings. . 
Mr. E. W. Janson exhibited a collection of insects, principally Coleoptera, 
from the diamond-fields of South Africa. 
Mr. Higgins exhibited examples of Tetracha crucigera of M‘Leay, 
sent to him from Sydney, being, as he believed, the first seen in 
Europe. 
Prof. Westwood exhibited a series of drawings and specimens, with the 
view of identifying Papilio Thersander of Fabricius, and of proving that the 
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