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  December 
  6, 
  1852. 
  

  

  J. 
  0. 
  Westwood, 
  Esq., 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  donations 
  were 
  announced, 
  and 
  thanks 
  ordered 
  to 
  be 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  

   donors:— 
  The 
  'Zoologist 
  'for 
  December; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  ♦ 
  Athenffium 
  ' 
  for 
  Novem- 
  

   ber 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  ' 
  Literary 
  Gazette 
  ' 
  for 
  November 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  ' 
  Proceed- 
  

   edings 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society,' 
  Vol. 
  vi. 
  No. 
  88—90 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  ' 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society 
  of 
  Arts,' 
  No. 
  2, 
  and 
  ' 
  List 
  of 
  Subjects 
  for 
  Premiums 
  ; 
  ' 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  ' 
  De- 
  

   scription 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  Hemipterous 
  Insect, 
  Atelides 
  centrolineatus, 
  forming 
  the 
  Type 
  of 
  

   a 
  new 
  Genus," 
  by 
  W. 
  S. 
  Dallas, 
  Esq., 
  F.L.S. 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Author. 
  Specimens 
  of 
  Pytho 
  de- 
  

   pressus 
  (3), 
  Cetonia 
  anea 
  (4), 
  Libellula 
  arctica 
  (2), 
  Ctenophora 
  atrala 
  (2) 
  ; 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Wea- 
  

   ver. 
  A 
  box 
  of 
  British 
  Lepidoptera 
  ; 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Douglas. 
  Specimens 
  in 
  illustration 
  of 
  

   the 
  metamoi-phoses 
  of 
  six 
  species 
  of 
  Strepsiptera 
  from 
  Albania 
  ; 
  by 
  Mr. 
  S. 
  S. 
  Saunders. 
  

   Henry 
  Tompkins, 
  Esq., 
  of 
  Lewes, 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Subscriber 
  to 
  the 
  Society. 
  

   The 
  President 
  exhibited 
  some 
  new 
  Coleoptera 
  from 
  Ceylon 
  and 
  China, 
  from 
  the 
  

   collection 
  of 
  Major 
  Champion. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  F. 
  Grant 
  exhibited 
  a 
  male 
  Lucanus 
  Cervus, 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  right 
  hind 
  log 
  was 
  

   much 
  smaller 
  than 
  the 
  left 
  one; 
  a 
  remarkable 
  variety 
  of 
  Triphaena 
  janthina; 
  and 
  a 
  

   long 
  series 
  of 
  Peronea 
  rufana, 
  illustrating 
  the 
  variation 
  of 
  the 
  species. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas, 
  on 
  behalf 
  of 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Cooke, 
  exhibited 
  a 
  remarkably 
  dark 
  red 
  variety 
  

   of 
  Hypochalcia 
  ahenella, 
  taken 
  at 
  Hastings. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Edward 
  Sheppard 
  exhibited 
  some 
  English 
  ship-biscuit 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  a 
  voyage 
  

   to 
  America 
  and 
  back, 
  infested 
  with 
  Stene 
  ferruginea 
  and 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Apate. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  S. 
  Stevens 
  exhibited 
  a 
  -remarkable 
  variety 
  of 
  Vanessa 
  Urticfe, 
  bred 
  from 
  a 
  

   larva 
  taken 
  near 
  London 
  ; 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Pieris 
  Daplidice, 
  taken 
  by 
  E. 
  C. 
  Buxton, 
  

   Esq., 
  at 
  Holme 
  Fen 
  ; 
  and 
  an 
  example 
  of 
  Notodonta 
  tritophus, 
  captured 
  in 
  Scotland, 
  

   from 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  gentleman. 
  He 
  also 
  exhibited 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Mono- 
  

   chamus 
  Sutor, 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Regent's 
  Canal 
  ; 
  one 
  of 
  Pogonocherus 
  fasci- 
  

   culalus, 
  bred 
  from 
  the 
  hoo]) 
  of 
  a 
  cask 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  selection 
  of 
  Coleoptera 
  and 
  Lepidoptera 
  

   from 
  a 
  collection 
  just 
  received 
  from 
  Mundo 
  Nova, 
  Rio 
  Grande, 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  cap- 
  

   tured 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Plant. 
  Many 
  were 
  rare 
  or 
  new, 
  and 
  all 
  w^ere 
  in 
  fine 
  condition. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Waterhouse 
  observed 
  that 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  were 
  also 
  found 
  at 
  Rio 
  Janeiro, 
  

   about 
  500 
  miles 
  north 
  of 
  this 
  locality, 
  but 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  perceptible 
  variation, 
  although 
  

   not 
  amounting 
  to 
  specific 
  distinction, 
  between 
  the 
  insects 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  places. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  part 
  of 
  an 
  interesting 
  and 
  valuable 
  memoir 
  by 
  S. 
  S. 
  Saunders, 
  Esq., 
  was 
  

   read, 
  entitled 
  " 
  Notices 
  of 
  some 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Strepsipterous 
  Insects 
  from 
  Albania, 
  

   with' 
  further 
  Observations 
  on 
  the 
  Habits 
  and 
  Transformations 
  of 
  these 
  Parasites," 
  in 
  

   which 
  several 
  unknown 
  points 
  in 
  the 
  economy 
  of 
  these 
  insects 
  are 
  elucidated. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  read 
  a 
  continuation 
  of 
  his 
  "Memoir 
  on 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  of 
  Bri- 
  

   tish 
  Micro-Lepidoptera," 
  the 
  genera 
  Gracillaria 
  and 
  Lithocolletis 
  being 
  illustrated 
  by 
  

   descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  larva; 
  and 
  their 
  economy 
  of 
  three 
  species 
  of 
  each 
  genus, 
  accompa- 
  

   nied 
  by 
  coloured 
  drawings 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Wing. 
  

  

  The 
  Secretary 
  read 
  the 
  following 
  remarks 
  from 
  a 
  note 
  accompanying 
  Mr. 
  Wea- 
  

   ver's 
  donation 
  : 
  — 
  " 
  The 
  Ctenophora 
  atrata 
  I 
  procured 
  from 
  hard 
  undecayed 
  stumps 
  

  

  