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Additions to the Library. 



Tbe following donations were announced, and thanks voted to tbe donors: — 

 'Annales de la Societe Eutomologique de France,' 1867; presented by tbe Society. 

 *Jonrual of tbe Linneau Society;' Zoology, No, 44; by tbe Society. ' Slettiner 

 Entomologiscbe Zeitung,' Vol. xxix. Nos. 10 — 12; by tbe Society. 'Memoires sur 

 la Famille des Carabiques,' and twenty-six otber Papers, by tbe Baron M, de Cbau- 

 doir; by tbe Author. 'Etudes sur la Parlhenogeuese,' par Felix Plateau; by tbe 

 Author. *A short Campaign against the White Borer {Xylolrechus quadrvpesy 

 Cbevrolat,) in tbe Coffee Districts of Coorg, Munzerabad and Niiggur,' by Lieut.-Col. 

 C. P. Taylor; by the Author. Newman's ' British Molhs,' No. 24 ; by tbe Author. 

 *The Zoologist' for December; by ibe Editor. 'The Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine ' for December ; by the Editors. 



Tbe following additions, by purchase, were also announced: — 'Genera des 

 Coleopteres d'Europe,' livr. 137 — 144. 'Record of Zoological Literature,' 1867, 

 (Entomological Part). 



Election of Members. 

 A. G. Butler, Esq., of the British Museum, and Dr. F. Buchanan White, of Perth, 

 were elected Members. 



Exhibitions, ^c. 



Tbe Secretary announced that an exhibition of bees would be held at Milan, from 

 tbe lOtb to the 13th of the month, and would comprise a collection of all kinds of 

 bees, honey, and instruments and utensils employed in apiculture, for which various 

 prizes would be distributed. A silver medal was also offered for the best mode of 

 taking the honey without destroying the bees. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two specimens of Limenitis Sibylla, negroes, entirely black on 

 the upper side; and three specimens of Polyommatus Adonis, one of which, a male, 

 was remarkable for its extremely small size, another bore on the under side of the fore 

 wind's a number of broad bars of black, whilst tbe third, a female, was partly coloured 

 like the male, the upper surface of the wings being dashed with bright blue, not 

 shading off into the brown, but clearly and sharply defined. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited the gynandromorphous specimen of Lasiocampa Qiiercus 

 bred by Mr. Wilson, and mentioned at tbe Meeting of November 2ud {ante, 

 p. xxxviii.). 



Mr. Dutlon exhibited a Catocala Fraxini, captured in an empty house at East- 

 bourne in August last. 



Mr. Edward Saunders sent for exhibition a specimen of Crambus myelins 

 {Hiibner), a species new to Britain, It was found by Mr. N. E. Brown, on a blade 

 of grass, near Aberdeen, in July last ; and was nearly allied to C. pinelellus. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited drawings, and read descriptions, of several exotic 

 Hymenoptera belonging to the genus Aulacus. (See 'Transactions' for 1868, 



p. 327.) 



Paper read. 



A paper " On tbe Application of tbe Law of Priority to Genera in Entomology," 

 by Mr. W. F. Kirby, was read by the Secretary. 



