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May 4, 1868. 



H. T. Stafnton, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library, 



The following donalions were announced, and lhanl<s voted to the donors: — 

 •Catalogue of Scientific Paiiers (1800 — 1863), compiled and published by the Royal 

 Society of London,' vol. i. ; presented by the Royal Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society,' Nos. 98—100; by the Society. ' The Journal of the Quekelt Microscopical 

 Club,' Nos, 1 and 2; by the Club. 'The Journal of the Linnean Society,' Zoology, 

 No. 40; by the Society. ' The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' 

 2nd series, vol. iv. parti; by the Society. 'Bulletins de I'Academie Royale des 

 Sciences, &c., de Belgique,' 2me ser., t. xxiv.; by the Academy. 'Bulletin de la 

 Societe Imperiule des Naluralistes de Moscou,' 1867, No. II.; by the Society. 

 'Essai d'une Faune Eulomologique de I'Archipel Indo-neerlandais,' par S. C. Snellen 

 van Vollenhoven. Troisieme Monographic: Famille des Pentatomides, Ire Parlie; by 

 the Author. 'On Pauropus, a New Type of Centipede;' and 'Notes on the Thy- 

 sanura,' Part iii.; by the Author, Sir John Lubbock, Bart. 'On the Lepidopterous 

 Insects of Bengal,' by Frederic Moore; by the Author. 'Remarks on the N^ames 

 applied to llie British Hemiptera Heteroptera,' by J. W. Douglas and John Scott; 

 by the Authors. Newman's 'British Molhs,' No. 17; by the Author. 'The Zoolo- 

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

 by the Editors. 



Exhibitions, ^-c. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a number of skins of larvae of Lepidoptera, admirably 

 prepared by Mr. Davis, of Waltham Cross, so as to preserve both the form and colour 

 of the caterpillars. 



Mr. Tiimen exhibited a crippled specimen of Saturnia Pavonia-minor, which, 

 owing probably to the form and smallness of the box in which it was con- 

 fined, had attempted to emerge from its cocoon tail-foremost, but failing in the 

 attempt was found fixed with its head in contiguity with the head of the pupa- 

 skin. 



Dr. Wallace, of Colchester, oflFered to send eggs of the Japanese oak-feeding silk- 

 worm, Bombyx Yamamai, to any Member of the Society. 



Mr. Stainton drew attention to the plate illustrating a paper entitled " Histoire 

 d'une Chenille mineuse des feuilles de vigne, extraite d'une lettre ecrite de Malte a 

 M. de Reaumur," published in the ' Memoires de I'Academie Royale des Sciences de 

 Paris,' in 1750. The habit of the footless larva which attacked the vine in Malta and 

 produced a small moth was so carefully described and pourtrayed by M. Godeheu de 

 Riville, that there was no diffic\ilty in recognizing it as congeneric with the footless 

 larvae of Anlispila Treitschkeella and Pfeifi"erella, and Mr. Stainton some time since 

 proposed the name of Anlispila Rivillii, in the hope thai the species would be again 

 detected in some of the vine-growing districts of Southern Europe. To the present 

 day, however, the moth remains unknown, and the larva is known only by the record 

 of M. de Riville. 



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