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Mr. J. F. Christy, was balloted for, and unanimously elected 

 an honorary corresponding member of the Entomological 

 Club ; and Mr. Bennett was appointed to inform him thereof. 



The Club then adjourned to Thursday evening, the 15th 

 December, at Mr. Hoyer's. 



Sitting of the 15th December, 1836. 



Present,— Messrs. Bennett, Bentley, Chant, J. F. Christy, 

 Foster, Hoyer, and Newman. 



Mr. Hoyer in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Newman, as Curator, exhibited the insects which 

 Messrs. Walker and W. Christy had collected in the neigh- 

 bourhood of North Cape; and also those collected by Mr. 

 Walker alone in the course of an overland journey from thence 

 to Tornea. In the Lepidoptera from the extreme north of 

 Europe, the total absence of the Noctuites, at a season of the 

 year when there was no night, might have been anticipated ; 

 yet there was one Hepialus, apparently H. Vetteda, taken at 

 the time of incipient nights. No Colias or Vanessa appeared 

 among the butterflies. Pontia Napi was taken, and a specimen 

 of P. Rapai was seen. Melitcea Dia were taken, and also 

 Hipparchiw Liyea and Blanduia, the varieties so intermingled 

 that it was impossible to separate them ; (a circumstance which 

 leads to the conclusion that these constitute but a single species :) 

 numbers of 'Poly 'ommatus Argus, and a pair of Hesperia Comma ; 

 —in all, six butterflies. In Geometrites, there were several 

 species, and a few minor Lepidoptera. In Diptera, the collec- 

 tion was rich ; four noble Tabani, among them T. Tarandi, 

 and all different from our British species ; also abundance of the 

 beautiful (Estrus Tarandi, and several very fine Volucellos. 

 In the Tipulites and minor Diptera, there was a great number 

 of genera and species. In Hymenoptera, there were examples 

 of the fine genera, Cimbex, Lyda, and Sirex, &c. ; also, several 

 species of Bombi, the common wasp, and numerous ants (one 

 of the latter was of an enormons size ;) but only one fossorial 

 insect. In Coleoptera, there was apparently a scanty supply ; 

 of the long horned tribes, there were fine examples of cedilis, 

 and scalaris, also, numerous Lepturae ; abundance of Pytho 



