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Mr. M'Lachlan referred to a specimen of a fly (one of the Syrphid^) 

 which he had exhibited at the meeting of 7th July, 1873, as a strongly, 

 marked uistance of gynandromorphism, the sexual organs on the under Sde 

 of the abdomen being placed on one side instead of the middle. Pie had since 

 been informed by Mr. Verrall that this was an error, and that the apparent 

 want of symmetry in those organs was usual in the species. Mr. Verrall 

 who was present, stated that the insect was a male specimen of Chrysotoxuni 

 festivum. 



Neio Paris of 'Transactions.' 



Part II. of the ' Transactions ' for 1874 was on the table. 



June 1, 1874. 

 Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors; — 'Transactions of the American Entomological Society,' vol. ii. 

 nos. 2 and 3 ; vol iv. nos. 1 — 4 ; presented by the Society. ' Bulletin of 

 the Buflfalo Society of Natural Sciences,' vol. i. no. 4 ; by the Society. 

 'Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 1873, no. 3 ; 

 by the Society. ' Coleopterologische Hefte,' xii. ; by the Editor, Baron E. 

 von Harold. 'Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift,' 1873, 3, 4; 1874, 

 1,2; by the Society. ' The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club,' 

 no. 26; by the Club. 'The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. vi. no. 4; by the 

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

 'Newman's Entomologist' and ' The Zoologist' for June;' by the Editor. 

 Butler, ' Lepidoptera Exotica,' pt. xx., and ' Cistula Entomologica,' pt. ix. ; 

 by E, W. Janson. ' The Lepidoptera of Turkestan, from the Collection of 

 M. Fedtschenko,' by M. Erschoff; by the Author, ' Stettiner Entomo- 

 logische Zeitung,' vol, xxxv, nos. 1 — ; by the Society. 



Election of Members. 

 M. Achille Guenee, of Chateauduu, France, was balloted for and elected 

 an Honorary Member of the Society, in the room of M, Guerin-Meiieville, 

 deceased. 



Mr. Alan Ogier Ward, of Putney, was balloted for and elected a Sub- 

 scriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions, dx. 



llv. M'Lachlan exhibited specimens of the white ant {Cahtermes sp.), 

 recently bred at Kew from a sample of the wood of the tree (Trachylobiuni 

 Hornmannianum) that produces the gum copal of Zanzibar. 



