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water for some hours, he discovered to be filled with a number of minute 

 spiders measuring one-twelfth of an inch. The granules of sand were held 

 together and to the inner-bag by fine threads of web. He believed the 

 object of the sand was to prevent the case being blown away, but he was not 

 aware to what species the nest appertained. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby contributed a review of Dr. Boisduval's " Mouographie 

 des Agaristidees," published in the ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1874, 

 pp. 26 — 110. He directed attention to the absence, in Dr. Boisduval's 

 arrangement, of the genera Mania and Larunda, Hiibn. (Sematura and 

 Coronis, auct.), the former of which has been placed by all authors close to 

 Nyctalemon, and at times even included in the genus. 



Mr. Butler communicated " Descriptions of three new Species and a 

 new Genus of Diurnal Lepidoptera from the collection of Andrew Swanzy, 

 Esq." 



Mr. Charles 0. Waterhouse contributed " Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 with descriptions of new Species." 



The Rev. R. P. Murray communicated " Descriptions of some new Species 

 of Butterflies belonging to the Genus Lycsena." He added thereto some 

 remarks on the species furnished with spots on the anal angle of the hind 

 wing, and also on those furnished with tails — neither of which characters 

 he considered sufficient to afford generic distinctions. 



November 16, 1874. 



J. W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors :— ' The Journal of the Linuean Society,' Zoology, no. 58 ; presented 

 by the Society. ' The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. vi., no. 9 ; by the Editor. 

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

 'L'Abeille,' tome xi., livr. 19 ; by the Editor. 



Election of Subscribers. 

 R. E. Bull, Esq., of 85, Milton-street, Dorset-square; F. Fitch, Esq., ol 

 Hadleigh House, Highbury New Town; and H. D'Arcy Power, Esq., of 

 8, Manor-terrace, Camberwell, were elected Subscribers. 



Exhibitions, dc. 

 Mr.Higgins exhibited »me rare species of Cetoniidje from Bomeo n^ 

 Lomaptera Higginsii. 0. Jamo,,, and a remarkable DjnasUtorm rusoct 



