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January 4, 1869. 

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



Addilions lo the Library. 



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

 ' Transactions of the Linnean Society,' Vol. xxvi., Part 2; ' Journal of the Linnean 

 Society,' Zoology, No. 44 : presented by the Society. 'Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society,' No. i04 ; by the Society. ' Menioires de la Societe de Physique et d'His- 

 toire Naturelle de Geneve,' Vol. xix.. Part 2 ; by the Society. Hewiison's ' Exotic 

 Butterflies,' Part 69; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 'The Entomologist's Annual,' for 

 1869; by the Editor. Newman's ' British Moths,' No. 25 ; by the Author. 'The 

 Zoologist,' for January; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' for 

 January ; by the Editors. 



By purchase: — Gemmiiiger and Von Harold, ' Catalogus Coleopterorum,' Vol. ii. 



Election of Members. 



W. F. Kirby, Esq., Assistant in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society 

 (previously an Annual Subscriber), and E. Holdswortb, Esq., of Shanghai, were elected 

 Members. 



Exhibitions, cf-c. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two diminutive specimens of Vanessa Urticae, about half the 

 usual size of the butterfly; they were two out of fifty or more dwarfs, not all of the 

 same brood of larvae, which, owing probably to the extreme heat of 1868, had been 

 developed with remarkable rapidity, having remained less than a week in the chrysalis 

 stale. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a dark variety of the female Apatura Iris, and a very 

 pale variety of Hesperia Comma. 



Mr. E. G. Meek exhibited specimens of Dianthoecia Barrettii, captured by Mr. 

 Gregson, in Ireland. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a specimen of Crambus myelins, captured by Mr. Adam 

 Boyd some time since near Blair Athol, and which had remained mixed in Mr. Boyd's 

 collection with C. pinetellus, until his attention was called to it by the announcement 

 at the previous Meeting (ante, p. xlii.). 



The Secretary exhibited photographs of nests of Vespa Britannica and V. arborea, 

 presented to the Society by Mr. John Hogg, by whom the nesis were found at Norton, 

 Durham. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a series of drawings of bees and wasps and their respective 

 nests, and a number of the actual nests, collected in India by Mr. Charles Home. 



Mr. Home (who was present as a visitor) gave some interesting details on the habits 

 of the insects. The species of bee which was kept by the natives was, he believed, the 

 Apis dorsata. In the North-west Provinces, it was necessary to leave the key in every 

 lock, or the cavity was pretty sure to be occupied by a PelopiEus: if a sheet of paper 

 was left on a mantel-shelf, it would be fixed thereto by an inserted mud-cell ; or a like 

 cell might often be found interposed between a pillow and the bed; even a little 

 hollow in the floo^', in spite of the inevitable destruction of the nest, would be filled ; 



