v.id), ill tlje months of July and August, the Secretary mentioned that in the latter 

 month he had had sent to him from Woolwich two insects, each of which was alle<;ed 

 to be the delinquent. The first was a golden-eye (C/trysopa) ! The other was a 

 veritable gnat, and was pronounced by Mr. F. Walker to be the Culex nemorosus, a 

 species often troublesome in woods, though not usually found iu houses. Mr. F. Smith 

 added that specimens of the common house-gnat {Culex ciliaris) had been sent to the 

 British Museum as " the mosquito." 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. R. W. Fereday, of Christchurcb, New Zealand, 

 requesting contributions of specimens, with a view to the formation of a collection of 

 British insects for the Museum there; and a letter from Mr. H. L. Schrader, of 

 Shanghai, containing observations on various insects (Agathia, fficelicus, Cerura, 

 Actias, Syrpbus, Psylla, &c.). 



Papers read. 



The following papers were read: — "Notes on some South-African Butterflies 

 enumerated in Mr. A. G. Butler's Catalogue of SatyridsB iu the British Museum ;" by 

 Mr. Roland Trimen. 



"Contributions to a Knowledge of the European Trichoptera" (First Part); by 

 Mr. R. M'Lachlan. 



"Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Heteroinera;" by Mr. Frederick 

 Bates. 



(See ' Transactions ' for 1868, Part 4.) 



Neic Paris of ' Transactions.^ 

 The 'Transactions' of the Society for the year 1868, Parts 2 and 3, published in 

 July and September respectively, were on the table. 



November 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: — 

 'Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History,' Vol. xi., sheets 7—30; and 

 ' Memoirs read before the Boston Society of Natural History,' Vol. i. Part 3 ; presented 

 by the Society. * Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York,' Vol. viii. 

 Nos. 15 — 17; by the Lyceum. 'Proceedings of the Essex Institute,' Vol. v. 

 Nos. 5 and 6; by the Institute. 'Proceedings of the Entomological Society of 

 Philadelphia,' Vols, ii., iii., and vi. Part 2; by the Society. 'Transactions of the 

 American Entomological Society,' Vol. i. Nos. 1 — 4; by the Society. 'The Butter- 

 flies of North America,' by Wm. H. Edwards, Part 1 ; by the Author. Holmgren, 

 'Monographia Tryphonidum Suecias' and ' Monographia Ophionidum Sueciae;' 

 Curtis's 'Guide to an Arrangement of British Insects;' by J. W. Dunning. 



Exhibitions, ^-c. 

 Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen of Tapinostola Elymi, captured on the Norfolk 

 coast, near Yarmouth ; a variety of Diantboecia capsincola, bred in 1867 by Mr. Noah 



