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found by Mr. Weaver in the New Forest ; and stated that Mr. Weaver had taken two 

 other species of Psyche new to Britain, — and in Scotland Cetonia senea and Pytho 

 depressns. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited larva? of Lymexylon navale in wood from Pembroke 

 dock-yard, where it had proved very destructive to Italian oak which had been lying 

 there since 1846 : it had been suggested that the wood should be placed in the steam- 

 kiln in order to effect the destruction of these larvae, and this plan was to be tried. 



Mr. Westwood read a portion of a paper entitled ' Notes on Strepsiptera,' and ex- 

 hibited drawings in illustration. 



Mr. Stainton read a description of Micropteryx Aruncella, Scopoli, as an addition 

 to his monograph of the genus. 



The following is an abstract of Mr. Stainton's paper. "In my monograph of the 

 genus Micropteryx I have incorrectly described as Aruncella of Scopoli, a distinct, but 

 closely-allied species ; the name to be retained for the insect there described (see p. 30) 

 is Seppella, i<«&. In the male Aruncella the fascia is more slender, straighter, and nearer 

 the base than in Seppella ; the entire absence of the silver spot towards the apex in 

 Aruncella hardly forming so decided a character, as in many specimens of Seppella it 

 is scarcely visible. Mr. Stephens has specimens from Darenth Wood, and Mr. Thom- 

 son once met with it on the grassy bank between Sydenham and Penge.'' 



August 5, 1850. 

 G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., President in the chair. 



Mr. F. Smith was balloted for and elected a Member of the Society. 

 The following letter from Mr. Spence was then read : — 



" 18, Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, July 20, 1850. 



" My dear sir, — My attendance at the meeting of the British Association at Edin- 

 burgh, on the 31st instant, will prevent my being present at the next meeting of the 

 Entomological Society, but I cannot refrain from offering to you and our members, my 

 sincere condolence on the irreparable loss which we have all sustained by the death, 

 since we last assembled, of our revered and beloved Honorary President, and the 

 father of Entomology, the Rev. William Kirby, M.A., who died at Barham, near 

 Ipswich, where he had resided sixty-eight years, on Thursday the 4th of this month, 

 in the ninety-first year of his age. 



" I need not expatiate on the vast debt of gratitude which this Society owes to 

 our departed Honorary President, for the deep interest he has always taken in its 

 prosperity, and for the precious gift which he made to it some years since, of his entire 

 collection of insects ; invaluable, as being the depository of his Entomological disco- 

 veries during a long life, and of the precise individual species referred to in the de- 

 scriptions of his papers in the Linnean Transactions, and of his general works on the 

 science. 



" Nor is it necessary to point out to you and our members, who so justly appreciate 



