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  November 
  7, 
  1853. 
  

   J. 
  O. 
  Westwood, 
  Esq., 
  Vice-president, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

  

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

   donors: 
  — 
  The 
  'Zoologist' 
  for 
  November; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  'Literary 
  Gazette' 
  for 
  

   October 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  ' 
  Aiheuaeum 
  ' 
  for 
  October; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  'Jour- 
  

   nal 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  of 
  Arts' 
  for 
  October 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  ' 
  Revue 
  et 
  Magasin 
  de 
  Zoo- 
  

   logie,' 
  Nos. 
  7 
  and 
  8, 
  1853; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor, 
  M. 
  Guerin-Meueville. 
  A 
  lithographic 
  

   portrait 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Dr. 
  W. 
  A. 
  Bromfield, 
  framed 
  and 
  glazed; 
  by 
  his 
  sister. 
  Miss 
  

   Bromfield. 
  Lists 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Tineidte, 
  for 
  marking 
  the 
  desiderata 
  to 
  the 
  Society's 
  

   Collection 
  ; 
  by 
  E. 
  C. 
  Buxton, 
  Esq. 
  A 
  box 
  of 
  South 
  American 
  Lepidoptera, 
  in 
  the 
  

   finest 
  condition, 
  and 
  containing 
  several 
  new 
  species; 
  by 
  Thomas 
  Jones 
  Stevens, 
  Esq., 
  

   of 
  Bogota, 
  Corr. 
  M.E.S. 
  A 
  box 
  of 
  British 
  Lepidoptera, 
  including 
  a 
  hermaphrodite 
  

   Smerinthus 
  Populi 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Ilev. 
  Joseph 
  Greene. 
  Six 
  specimens 
  of 
  Plutella 
  Dalella 
  ; 
  

   by 
  the 
  Rev. 
  J. 
  Johnson. 
  

  

  Monsieur 
  Henri 
  Jekel, 
  of 
  Paris, 
  was 
  balloted 
  for 
  and 
  elected 
  an 
  Ordinary 
  Foreign 
  

   Member 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Curtis 
  exhibited 
  a 
  box 
  of 
  rare 
  Coleoptera 
  from 
  Mozambique, 
  received 
  from 
  

   Signor 
  Bertoloni, 
  of 
  Bologna, 
  including 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Goliathus 
  Derbyanus. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Edwin 
  Shepherd 
  exhibited 
  a 
  new 
  British 
  moth, 
  Noctua 
  Sobrina, 
  H.-Schaf., 
  

   and 
  an 
  apparently 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Peronea 
  ; 
  both 
  taken 
  this 
  season 
  in 
  Perthshire 
  by 
  

   Mr. 
  Weaver. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  S. 
  Stevens 
  exhibited 
  another 
  specimen 
  of 
  Noctua 
  Sobrina, 
  and 
  a 
  remarkable 
  

   variety 
  of 
  Trichius 
  fasciatus, 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  dark 
  markings 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  were 
  run 
  toge- 
  

   ther 
  into 
  a 
  blotch 
  ; 
  both 
  taken 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Weaver, 
  in 
  Scotland. 
  He 
  also 
  exhibited 
  a 
  box 
  

   of 
  Diurnal 
  Lepidoptera, 
  in 
  the 
  finest 
  condition, 
  captured 
  in 
  Nicaragua, 
  and 
  forwarded 
  

   in 
  paper 
  envelopes, 
  the 
  wings 
  being 
  closed 
  over 
  the 
  body. 
  In 
  this 
  state 
  they 
  were 
  

   packed 
  into 
  a 
  small 
  space, 
  and 
  travelled 
  free 
  from 
  injury, 
  requiring 
  only 
  to 
  be 
  relaxed 
  

   and 
  set. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Shield 
  sent 
  for 
  exhibition 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Depressaria 
  subpropinquella, 
  bred 
  

   from 
  a 
  larva 
  found 
  feeding 
  on 
  a 
  thistle 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  new 
  Nepticula, 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  larva 
  

   makes 
  a 
  peculiar 
  centrifugal 
  mine 
  in 
  the 
  leaves 
  of 
  Rumex 
  Acetosa, 
  and 
  hitherto 
  found 
  

   only 
  near 
  Dublin. 
  Mr. 
  Staiuton 
  intends 
  to 
  describe 
  the 
  species 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  

   of 
  N. 
  AcetosBB. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  F. 
  Smith 
  exhibited 
  living 
  specimens 
  of 
  a 
  South 
  American 
  ant, 
  Odontomachus 
  

   unispinosus, 
  imported 
  with 
  some 
  Orchidaceous 
  plants, 
  and 
  given 
  to 
  him 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Stevens. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  exhibited 
  leaves 
  of 
  Glechoma 
  hederacea, 
  bearing 
  tubular 
  galls 
  on 
  the 
  

   upper 
  side, 
  formed 
  and 
  tenanted 
  by 
  larva; 
  of 
  Cecidomyia 
  bursaria, 
  Bremi. 
  These 
  

   insects 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  identify 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  the 
  Monograph 
  on 
  Cecidomyia, 
  just 
  

   published 
  by 
  Herr 
  Winnertz, 
  in 
  the 
  8th 
  volume 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Linnea 
  Entomologica.' 
  Mr. 
  

   D. 
  also 
  exhibited 
  a 
  living 
  larva 
  of 
  a 
  Tala^poria 
  ? 
  from 
  a 
  fence 
  near 
  Croydon 
  ; 
  and 
  

   leaves 
  of 
  sallow 
  in 
  which 
  were 
  the 
  mines 
  of 
  Lepidopterous 
  larvae 
  (Nepticula) 
  and 
  of 
  

   Dipterous 
  larva; 
  (Phytomyza), 
  almost 
  identical 
  in 
  appearauce. 
  

  

  