PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



FOR THE TEAR 



1869. 



Fehruarj 1, 1869. 



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



The President returned thanks for his re-election, and nominated as his Vice- 

 Presidents Messrs. Pascoe, Frederick Smith, and A. R. Wallace. 



Donations to the Library. 

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

 ' Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800—1863) compiled and published by the Royal 

 Society of London,' Vol. ii. ; 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Nos. 105 and 106; 

 presented by the Society. ' Journal of the Linnean Society,' Zoology, No. 45 ; by the 

 Society. 'Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club,' Nos. 4 and 5; by the Club. 

 'Bulletin de la Societe Tmperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 1868, No. 1 ; by the 

 Society. ' Genera des Coleopteres,' Tome viii. ; by the Author, Prof. Lacordaire. 

 'Essai Monographique sur les Oxybelus du Bassin du Leman (Insectes Hymen- 

 opleres),' par Frederic Chevrier; by the Author. Newman's ' British Moths,' No. 26: 

 by the Author. 'The Zoologist,' for February ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine,' for February ; by the Editors. 



Exhibitions, ^-c, 



Mr. Edward Saunders exhibited a specimen of Pachetra leucophaea, captured by 

 Mr. N. E. Brown, on a gas-lamp at the Redhill Railway Station, on the i4th May, 

 1868. 



The Secretary read a letter from Dr. W. Webster Butterfield, of Indianapolis, 

 oflFering to exchange Lepidoptera of Indiana, U.S.A., for those of England. 



Mr. Pascoe made some observations on the Coleopterous genera Aprostoma, 

 Mecedanum and Gempylodes, with reference to the remark of Prof. Westwood (Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. 1868, p. 1.) that these genera would probably have to be united. M. Guerin's 



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