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on that of Termes fatidicum, which (at p. 55 of ' Discussion of the Law of 

 Priority ') is the climax to which the instance of Atropos pulsatoria was 

 merely a step. 



2 December, 1872. 

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



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — ' The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. iv., No, 10 ; Presented by the 

 Editor. * The Zoologist ' for December ; by the Editor. ' Tlie Entomolo- 

 gist' for December; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' 

 for December ; by the Editors. ' Note on a Chinese Artichoke Gall (men- 

 tioned and figured in Dr. Hance's paper ' On Silkworm-oaks') allied to the 

 European Artichoke Gall of Aphilothrix gemmae, Linn.,'' by Albert Miiller, 

 F.L.S. ; by the Author. 



By purchase : — ' Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum syno- 

 nymicus et systematicus,' tome ix., pars I. 



Election of Members. 



The following gentlemen were severally balloted for and elected : — Mons. 

 Henri de Saussure, of Geneva, as Honorary Member, in the room of 

 Professor Pictet, deceased; Mons. E. Pictet, of Geneva, as Foreign Member; 

 and Messrs. A. Phipson and G. W. Bird as Ordinary Members. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited a drawing of a variety of Pyrameis cardui that 

 had long been in his possession, and which was captured many years since 

 on Margate Sands by the late Mr. Desvignes. 



Mr. Bond exhibited varieties of the following British Lepidoptera : — 

 (1) Lycsena J5gon, female, having the right-hand wings plain brown, 

 whereas those on the left-hand were blue : he at first thought it was 

 what is commonly called a hermaphrodite, but it really was a female 

 combining the two varieties of that sex in one individual : this was 

 from the New Forest. (2) A fine variety of Notodonta dodonea, captured 



