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March 16, 1868. 

 H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:— 

 ' Stettiner Entomologische Zeituug,' 1868, Nos. 1 — 3 ; presented by the Entom. Verein 

 zu Stettin. ' Coleopterologische Hefte,' II.; by the Editor, Baron Edgar von Harold. 

 'Monographic der Scydmjeniden Central" und Siid-Amerika's ; ' by the Author, 

 Dr. L. W. Schaufuss. 



Election of Member. 



Charles Carrington, Esq.^ of Westwood Park, Forest Hill, was ballotted for, and 

 elected a Member. 



Exhibitions, Sf-c. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a specimen of the larva of a Lepidopterous insect from 

 Brazil, which was described by Mr. Peckolt, of Canlagallo, as being of a social habit, 

 and forming a common cocoon as large as a man's head, within which each individual 

 formed its own proper cocoon. The larva was covered with spines, like a Vanessa or 

 Acraea; and appeared to belong to one of the Diurni rather than to one of the 

 Bombyces. (See Trans. Ent. Soc. 1868, p. 136). 



Mr. Stainton directed attentiou to the account given by Herr Hartmann, in Stett. 

 Ent. Zeit. 1868, p. 109, of the breeding of Sesia cephiformis, Grapholitha duplicana, 

 Zett. (interruptana, H.-S.), and Gelechia electella, from gall-like swellings on the 

 twigs of juniper bushes: an examination of the juniper during the spring would 

 probably lead to the discovery in this country of the larvae of the two last-mentioned 

 species. 



The President announced the proximate publication, by Dr. Gemminger and Baron 

 E. von Harold, of the first part of a General Catalogue of Coleoptera, intended to in- 

 clude all the hitherto-described species of the whole world : the classification would be 

 based on that of Lacordaire, the species of each genus being arranged in alphabetical 

 order. 



Mr. F. Smith read a paper on ants, extracted from 'The Guardian* of 1713, and, 

 as the result of an elaborate and amusing criticism thereof, contended that the history 

 of the habits of those insects therein contained, detailed and circumstantial though it 

 were, could not be a record of actual observations, but was chiefly, if not entirely, the 

 oSspring of the imagination of the writer. 



April 6, 1868. 



H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors: — 

 Hewitson's 'Exotic Butterflies,' part QQ', presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



