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Mr. Bennett, of London. The First and Second Parts of 

 the Transactions of the Zoological Society. 



Mr. Busk, of the Dreadnought. Portions of a Squilla, ap- 

 parently undescribed, which had been put together in the 

 fancied similitude of an animal, and brought by a sailor from 

 the island of Timor for the purpose of deceiving the scientific. 

 It had been offered for ten pounds at the British Museum and 

 elsewhere, as an entirely new animal. 



Mr. E. Doubleday, of Epping. About four thousand 

 British Coleoptera, most of them minute. Mr. E. Doubleday 

 also gives the Curator permission to select from his exotic Dip- 

 tera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and Neuroptera, 

 all that are desirable to be possessed by the Club. This col- 

 lection contains many exceedingly rare insects, particularly 

 among the Orthoptera. 



Mr. N. T. Wetherell, of Highgate. A specimen of that 

 fine Cerambicideous insect, Macrodontia cervicornis ; also, a 

 nest of Vespa Brittannica. 



Thomas Ingall, Esq., of the Camberwell New Road, having 

 been, at the previous meeting, proposed by Mr. Hoyer, and 

 seconded by Mr. J. F. Christy, was balloted for, and unani- 

 mously elected an honorary corresponding member of the 

 Entomological Club. 



Sitting of the 16th February, 1837. 

 Mr. Bevington in the Chair. 

 Mr. Ingall exhibited, and presented to the Club, a specimen 

 of Scarabams Hercules. 



Mr. Bennett exhibited a fine and very perfect specimen of 

 the genus Mallodon, which was cut out of a piece of rosewood, 

 and was presented to the Club by Mr. W. Smee, of London. 



Sitting of the 16th March, 1837. 

 Mr. Bowerbank in the Chair. 



The Curator read the following list of donations : — 



Mr. Isaac Gray Bass, of Brighton. A British specimen of 

 Deilephila Galii ; also Acherontia Atropos. 



Mr. Benjamin Standish, of London. A variety of ex- 

 ceedingly fine and perfect specimens of British Noctuites. 



Mr. Bracy Clark, of London. About 300 species of 

 exotic insects, principally Lepidoptera, from the collection 



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