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" Descriptions of New Species of Phytophaga, belonging to the Families Cassididae 

 and HispidfE." By Mr. J. S. Baly. 



" A Revision of the British Species of Humalota." By Dr. Sharp. One hundred 

 and fifty -seven species were described, of which twenty-nine were new. 



May 3, 1869. 

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



Donations to the Library. 

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

 ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 110; presented by the Society. 'Journal of 

 the Quekett Microscopical Club,' No. 6; by the Club. ' Annales de la Societe Lin- 

 iieenne de Lyon,' vol. xvi.; by the Society. ' Verhandlungen der k. k. zool-bot. 

 Gesellschaft in Wien,' vol. xviii., Paris 1 and 2 ; by the Society. ' Bulletin de la 

 Socieie Imp. des Naturalistes de Moscou/ 1868, No. 2 ; by the Society. ' Beilrag 

 zur Kenntniss der Coleopteren-Fauna der Balearen,' by Dr. Schaufuss. Hewitson's 

 ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part 70 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' The Zoologist' for May ; 

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



Election oj Member. 

 Charles Owen Waterhouse, Esq., of the British Museum, was ballolted for, and 

 elected a Member. 



Exhibitions, <J-c. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a large collection of Coleoptera, sent from China by Mr. 

 Pullinger; and read an extract from a Report on the Coffee Plantations of India, to 

 the effect that the planters had not discovered any remedy for or preventive of the 

 ravages of the coffee-borer, Xylotrechus quadripes. 



Mr. Dunning exhibited a specimen of the common Cetonia aurata, found in a 

 garden at New Cross on the 11th April; it was partly covered with earth, and appeared 

 to have just emerged from its underground hybernaculum, whence it had been pre- 

 maturely tempted by the first warmth of spring. 



Mr. Butler mentioned that the Conocephalus from West Africa, which he exhibited 

 on the loth February {ante, p. iii.) was still alive ; he had kept it in a box on a mantel- 

 shelf at the British Museum, where it remained motionless unless disturbed, and had 

 not eaten anything whatever. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited three species of Epyris and some other Hymenoptera 

 of doubtful position, having relations with the Proctotrupidse, the Chrysididse, and 

 some of the Scoliidse ; and a Calyoza from Port Natal, with pectinate antenn3B having 

 thirteen joints in both sexes; this was identical with an insect found in gum anime, 

 and described in Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. £)6 (where the male was represented as having 

 only twelve joints to the antennae). 



Mr, Frederick Smith exhibited both sexes of Cynips, the male of which had at 

 last been detected by Mr. Walsh in America. The oak-apples on the black Oiik 

 (Quercus liiictoria) are first observed in May, and reach their full growth in a few 



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