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No. 75 : ' List of Members,' ditto, 1850 : all by the Society. ' Annales de la Societe 

 Entomologique de France,' tome viii. 1850 ; by the Society. ' Bericht iiber die Ar- 

 beiten der Entomologischen Sektion (of the Silesian Society of Natural History),' 

 1850 ; by the Society. ' Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the East In- 

 dia Company ; ' by the Hon. Court of Directors of the Company. ' The Athenaeum,' 

 for August and September ; by the Editor. A number of insects, chiefly Coleoptera, 

 collected in Renfrewshire ; by Mr. Young, Paisley. A fine series of varieties of Or- 

 thosia instabilis ; by Mr. Barlow. 



John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., and Captain H. Lodder, 47th Infantry, were balloted 

 for and elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a fine series of the hitherto very rare Heliophobus his- 

 pida, taken sitting on rocks in the Isle of Portland, between the 20th and 27th of Sep- 

 tember ; Aporophila australis, from the same locality ; Eupithecia ultimaria, Ramb.> 

 Boisd., Dup., a new British species taken at Dover in the middle of September; a spe- 

 cimen of Deiopeia pulchella, taken in Somersetshire in 1847 ; and a specimen of Cla- 

 viger foveolatus, taken near Dorking in September. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited a new species of Peronea, reared from larvae found 

 on Spiraea Ulmaria. 



Mr. Augustus Sheppard exhibited a pupa of Satumia Carpini in its cocoon, which 

 latter was rounded internally and externally, instead of being of the usual egg-shape ; 

 one side, that by which it had been affixed to the breeding-cage, being open and 

 showing the pupa. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a mass of cocoons of Aphomia sociella, found on the coast 

 of the Isle of Wight. 



Mr. Weir exhibited many species of Depressaria, lately captured, and a specimen 

 of Gelechia lentiginosella, reared from a caterpillar which fed on Genista tinctoria. 



Mr. W. Thomson sent for exhibition a box of Coleoptera, collected at Morocco by 

 Mr. Drummond Hay, containing, among other interesting insects, a specimen of the 

 British species, Nebria complanata. 



Mr. Janson exhibited a box of fine Coleoptera from Himalaya. 



Mr. Adam White exhibited a copy of a manuscript on spiders, by Mr. Joseph Dan- 

 dridge, or Daindridge, an apothecary, who lived in Moorfields in the days of Petiver 

 and Sloane. He was a keen collector of British spiders, and wrote descriptions of 

 them, which were subsequently published by Albin in 1736. He found " above a hun- 

 dred and forty kinds of them in England only," (see Bradley's ' Works of Nature,' p. 

 131, 1721). Mr. W. mentioned a New Zealand genus, and a curious species of New 

 Zealand spider, named after this indefatigable collector; he also pointed out the clear 

 manner in which Lister and Dandridge had described the habits and markings of the 

 British spiders, directed the attention of the entomologists present to this interesting 

 group, and requested them to collect specimens. He mentioned that Mr. Blackwall 

 had commenced in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' a series of papers 

 on British spiders, and said that the arachnologist of Denbighshire had undertaken 

 for the Ray Society a volume on the subject, which would include the descriptions 

 and figures so admirably detailed and drawn by his friend Mr. Templeton, when re- 

 siding near Belfast, a manuscript which Mr. W. some years ago urged the Zoological 

 Society to publish. He alluded to the labours of Dr. George Johnston, of Berwick, 

 on the mites of Berwick, published in the ' Proceedings of the Berwickshire Natural- 

 ists' Club ;' and concluded by reading an extract from a MS S. journal of his own, 



