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January 3, 1870. 

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



Additions to the Library. 



Tlie following donations were announced, and thanlis voted to the donors : — 

 ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 1 15 ; presented by the Society. ' Proceedings 

 of the Liunean Society,' 1869; by the Society. ' Bulletin de la Soc. Imp. des Natu- 

 ralistesdeMoscou,' 1868,No.4; by the Society. ' Millheilungen der Schweizerischen 

 Entomologischen Gesellschaft,' vol. iii. No. 3; by the Society. 'The Tineina of 

 Southern Europe,' and 'The Entomologist's Annual for 1870;' by H. T. Staiuton, Esq. 

 ' Equatorial Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Buckley,' Parts 1—3; by W. C. Hewitson, 

 Esq. ' Lepidoptera Exotica,' Part 3; by E. W. Janson, Esq. 'Observations on the 

 Parasitism of Rhipiphorus paradoxus;' by Frederick Smith, Esq. 'Reflexions et 

 Experiences sur le vol des Coleopteres;' by M. Felix Plateau. ' Petites Nouvelles 

 Entomologiques,' Nos. 1 — 12; by the Editor. 'The Zoologist,' for January ; by the 

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



The following additions by purchase were also announced: — Palisot de Beauvois, 

 ' Insecles recueillis en Afrique et en Amerique;' Ehrenberg & Klug, ' Symbolae 

 Physica?;' Brulle et Blanchard, 'Voyage de d'Orbiguy;' Motschulsky, 'Etudes 

 Entomologiques;' and Lowne, 'The Anatomy and Physiology of the Blow-fly.' 



Exhibitions, S)-c. 



Mr. Hewitson sent for exhibition a collection of butterflies, including 135 new 

 and many rare species, all iu beautiful condition, collected by Mr. Buckley in Equa- 

 torial America. With two exceptions, Heliconia Cythera and Terias Ecuadora, 

 which were taken on the west side of the Andes, the new species were all captured 

 between St. Ines and St. Rosa on the River Napo, within two degrees of longitude, 

 and descriptions thereof were in course of publication under the title of ' Equatorial 

 Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Buckley.' 



Mr. Buckley (who was present as a Visitor) gave some interesting details of his 

 stay in Ecuador. In reply to enquiries, he stated that the localities for each species 

 were carefully noted at the end of each day's collecting ; that generally speaking there 

 seemed to be a species of Heliconia peculiar to each valley ; that a few species occurred 

 on both sides of the Andes, and in particular a Heliconia and a Morpho were men- 

 tioned ; and that there was great difi'erence in the altitudes at which the exhibited 

 insects were collected, some of them, and in particular a Pronophila, having been 

 taken above the snow-level. 



Prof. VVestwood, as an instance of partial gynandromovphism, in which the union 

 of the opposite sexual characters was confined to a single limb, exhibited drawings of 

 a specimen of Anlhocharis Cardamines, the wings of which, for the most part male, 

 partook to some extent of the colour and character of the female, as if pieces of the 

 wing of the male had been cut out and replaced by pieces of the wing of the 

 female. 



Mr. Bond mentioned that a considerable number of the locust, Acridium perc- 

 grinura, had been taken in Cornwall in October: some were captured at Falmouth, 



