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July 5, 1809. 

 Frederick Smith, Esq., Vice-President, in the cbair. 



Addilions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and th;inks voted to the donors: — 

 'Transactions of the Linnean Society,' Vol. xxvi., Pt. 3 ; presenied by the Society. 

 ' Stetiiner Eulomologische Zeitunj."-,' 1869, Nos. 1 — 6; by the Eiitom. Soc. of Stettin. 

 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 1 12; by the Society. Butler's 'Lepidoptera 

 Exotica,' Pt. 1 ; by E. W. Janson, Esq. ' Descriptions of new Genera and Species of 

 Tenebrionidse from Australia and Tasmania,' by F. P. Pascne ; by the Author. ' The 

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

 July ; by the Editors. 



The following additions by purchase were also announced : — Thomson, ' Skandi- 

 naviensColeoptera,' Vol. is. Gemminger and von Harold, ' Catalogus Coleopterorum,' 

 Vol. iv. 



Election of Member. 



Albert Miiller, Esq., of Eton Villa, Sunny Bank Road, South Norwood, was 

 ballotted for and elected a Member. 



Exhibitions, ^-c. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited a gigantic tick, nearly an inch in length, and half 

 an inch in breadth : it was found on a Greek tortoise. 



Mr. Colvile Barclay (who was present as a Visitor) gave an account of the damage 

 done to the sugar cane in Mauritius by a species of Coccus, the " pou a poche blanche,'' 

 or " pou blanc.'' See Proc. Ent. Soc. 1864, pp. 25, 51. 



Mr. Frederick Smith exhibited drawinu;s of the luminous larva shown at the 



> previous Meeting {ante, p. xv.), and supposed to be a Pyrophorus. Dr. Candeze and 



^£vProf. Scbiodte (who was present as a Visitor) were both of opinion that the larva 



r belonged to the ElateridcE, and were equally of opinion thai Mr. Andrew Murray's 



u Astraptor illuminator (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. x., p. 74, pi. i.) was not an Elater. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a living male of the field cricket, Acheta campestris, 

 found near Farnham ; and remarked that th(iu;;h he required to be placed in the sun 

 to make him begin his song, moisture seemed to give him an additional stimulus and 

 made him sing the louder. 



Mr. F. Smith also exhibited specimens, some of them alive, of Pissodes notatus, 

 from Bournemouth, showing great variation in size. 



Mr. Pryer exhibited a specimen of Eupithecia tofjata, taken in the previous month ; 

 the occurrence of the species in this country bad not been recorded for some years. 

 The locality was not stated. Mr. Dunning mentioned that he had taken the insect at 

 Brandon, Suffolk, in 1849. 



The Hon. T. I)e Grey exhibited three specimens of Cosmopteryx orichalcea, from 

 Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire ; and six of what Prof. Zeller held to be a dark variety 

 of Carpocapsa Juliana, though they were (part of a larger number) bred from beech 

 in April. 



Mr. Wakefield (who was present as a Visitor) stated the result of his entomological 

 experience in New Zealand, apologising for the scantiness of his information on the 



