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Election of Members. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for, and elected, viz. — G. C. 

 Champion, Esq. (formerly a Subscriber), as Member; and B. G. Cole, Esq., 

 as Subscriber. 



Exliihitions, Sc. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited (on behalf of Mr. George Lewis), a magnificent 

 collection of coloured drawings of the metamorphoses of twenty-one species 

 of Japanese Sphingidse, These drawings had been executed, under the 

 direction of Mr. Lewis, by a native artist, and were remarkable for the full 

 details shown of the various states ; in some cases three different varieties 

 of the same larva were figured. Mr. Lewis requested it to be announced 

 that he was willing to present the drawings to any Member of the Society 

 who would undertake to pubUsh them. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited the beautiful net-work cocoon of a species of 

 small moth from New Granada. This was attached to, or suspended from, 

 a leaf on which was also a species of Hesperiidse strongly affected by fungoid 

 growths. 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited two species of Buprestidae, from the Pelevv 

 and Caroline Islands respectively, which appeared to pertain to a new 

 genus, notwithstanding that they bore much external resemblance to two 

 species of Chrysodema from the East India Islands. 



Mr. Champion exhibited Nanophyes gracihs and Apion sanguineum, two 

 species of Coleoptera rare, or recently detected, in Britain. 



Mr. Midler called attention to a recently-issued Government Eeport, 

 intituled " Papers respecting the Phylloxera vastatrix, or new vine-scourge," 

 detailing an account of the ravages of this insect in various continental 

 districts, and the means that had, with more or less success, been adopted 

 for preventing its spread. Prof. Westwood stated that the occurrence of 

 the insect in England had been noticed by him in 1863, in a paper read 

 before the Ashmolean Society. 



Papers read, dc. 



Dr. Sharp communicated a list of the water-beetles of Japan, chiefly 

 drawn up from materials collected by Mr. George Lewis, with remarks on 

 the distribution of the said insects. 



Mr. Wollaston communicated two papers. First, on a new genus 

 (Pseudotarphius) of Colydiida3 from Japan ; and secondly, on the Cossonidse 

 of the same islands. In the latter paper the author commented upon the 

 apparent absence of European types in the districts of Japan visited by 

 Mr. Lewis, and stated that their place seemed to be taken by representative 

 forms. Mr. Pascoo thought the feuna of Japan might be indicated as 



