XIV 



June 7, 1869. 

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



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were aiinounceci, and ihanks voted to the donors : — 

 ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. Ill ; presented by the Society. ' Proceed- 

 ings of the Zoological Society,' 1868, Part 3; by the Society. ' Horae Societatis 

 Entomologicae Rossicae,' Vol. vi., No. 2; by the Society. 'Berliner Entomologische 

 Zeitschrift, 1868, Parts 3,4,-1869, Parts 1,2; and ' Verzeichniss der Kafer Deutsch- 

 lands,' von Dr. Kraatz ; by the Entonaological Society of Berlin. ' Illustrations of 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera, Part IV., Lycajnidsc'; by the Author, W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 

 H. de Saussure, ' Reise der Oest. Fregatte Novara, Hymenoptera ;' 'Etudes sur 

 quelques Orthopteres du Musee de Geneve ; ' 'Etudes sur I'Aile des Orthopteres ; ' 

 ' Orthoplerum Sjiecies novge aliquot ;' ' Phasmidarum novorum Species nonnullae ;' and 

 Prof. Yerbin, 'Note sur la derniere Mue des Orthopteres;' ' Note sur les Mues du 

 Grillon charnpetre;' 'Note sur le Xiphidium brunneum;' presented by Sir John 

 Lubbock. ' The Zoologist,' for June; by the Editor, ' The Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine,' for June; by the Editors. 



The following addition by purchase was also announced : — ' Recherches sur la Faune 

 de Madagascar : lusectes,' par S. C. Snellen van Vollenhoven et Baron Edm. de Selys 

 Longchamps. 



Exhibitions, ^c. 



Mr. Druce exhibited a collection of butterflies from Borneo, containing several 

 novelties and rarities; amongst them a new Ornithoptera, a rare Charaxes, &c. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited two specimens of a new species of Tineina, bred from larvae 

 sent by M. Milliere, who found them at Cannes on Osiris alba. The bushy tufted 

 palpi of the insect resembled those of Anarsia, and its habit was to sit with its head 

 depressed as if resting on the palpi; the markings of the wings were like Zelleria or 

 Swammerdamia. Mr. Stainton had seen the moth at Vienna and in other Continental 

 collections, but the discovery of its habits and transformations was due to M. Milliere, 

 who proposed to describe it under the name of Paradoxus (n. g.) Osiridellus. 



Mr. Stainton also exhibited drawings of the larva and pupa-case of Gelechia 

 atrella, and was now able to corroborate the observation of Mr. Jeffrey (see Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. 1866, p. xxv.) that this species is a Hypericum feeder. At the previous 

 meeting of the Society, Mr. De Grey had given Mr. Stainton some Hypericum stems 

 containing larvae, which had since produced Gelechia atrella; when full fed, the larva 

 cuts off the terminal portion of the stem, which appears to be slit up the side for the 

 purpose of flattening it, and by spinning together the edges it forms a flexible case, 

 within which it turns to the pupa, 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a bee which he had found on the previous day at Southend, 

 in grass, so completely covered with larvae of Meloe that it was impossible to deter- 

 mine the species of the bee until the greater part of the parasites had been removed ; 

 he did not remember to have ever found larvae of Meloe so late in the season ; there 

 were forty or fifty of them on the bee when exhibited, when captured there must have 

 been 300 or 400 ; the bee proved to be Melecta armata, itself a parasite in the nests of 

 Anthophora. 



