July 1, 1872. 

 Prof. J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, iu the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 

 Annee 1871, Nos. 3 and 4; presented by the Society. 'Illustrated 

 Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College,' 

 No. V. ; by the Trustees. ' The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. iv., No. 5 ; 

 by the Editor. ' A Systematic Revision of some of the American Butterflies, 

 with brief notes on those known to occur in Essex County, Mass.," by 

 Samuel H. Scudder ; by the Author. ' The Entomologist's Monthly 

 Lfagazine ' for July ; by the Editors. ' Lepidoptera Exotica,' part xiii. ; by 

 E. W. Janson. ' Notiser ur Sallskapets pro Fauna & Flora Fennica 

 Forhandlingar,' vols i., iv., v., vi., vii. and xii. ; by J. W. Dunning, Esq. 

 ' Exotic Butterflies,' part 83 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' Notice by the 

 Board of Studies for the Natural Science School of the University of 

 Oxford. Issued in pursuance of Statute Tit. v. (vi.), Sect, i.' ; by Professor 

 Westwood. 



Election of a 'Member. 

 Lord Moreton was balloted for, and elected an ordinary Member. 



Exhibitions, Sc. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited two examples of Agrotera nemoralis, taken 

 by him in Abbot's Wood, Sussex, on the 26th ultimo. 



Mr. Meldola exhibited several varieties of British Lepidoptei-a, including 

 dwarf specimens of Anthocharis cardamines, Porthesia auriflua and Abraxas 

 grossulariata, and a Veuilia maculata iu which the black spots of the wings 

 were entirely absent ; also an example of Leucania vitellina, taken at 

 Brighton in 1869. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited various interesting Coleoptera sent from 

 Ceylon by Mr. Thwaites. Also prettily banded cocoons of some species of 

 IchneumonidiB (likewise sent from Ceylon by the same gentleman) remark- 

 able for being attached to silken threads more than two inches long. The 

 same lot of Ceylonese insects had furnished him, further, with an interesting 

 illustration of the habits of a Lepidopterous insect, the larva of which cut 

 out large oval pieces from a leaf of Citrus, making therewith a moveable 

 dwelling under which it fed, fastening it down by the edges : owing to the 



