7334 Entomological Sociely. 



Taiti;' presented by G. Frauenfelfl. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for 

 November; by the Society. ' The AthenEeuni' for November ; by the Editor. ' List • 

 of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,' 

 by Francis Walker, F.L.S., &c.. Part 21, Geometrites (continued) ; by the Author. 



Election of a Member. 



Mons. Henri deBouvouloir, of No. 15, Rue de I'Universite, Paris, was balloted for 

 and elected a Member of the Sociely. 



The President announced that Mr. W. W. Saunders had kindly undertaken to 

 receive the subscriptions from members of the Entomological Society of France resi- 

 dent in this country, and that the ' Anuales' of that Sociely would be forwarded to 

 liim, and be delivered to members so paying, at his office, No. 13, Copthall Court, 

 London. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some Coleoptera sent from Ceram by Mr. Wallace, in- 

 cluding Eucheirus longimanus, Monohammus Grayii, and other tine species. 



Mr. King exhibited a singular variety of Camptogramma bilineata, and two spe- 

 cimens of Leucania putrescens taken near Torquay. 



The Rev. A. R. Hogan exhibited specimens of Niphargus Kochianus, Spence Bate, 

 a species of well-shrimp discovered by him, along with two other new species, at 

 Ringwood, in the New Forest. They were afterwards found in several other places, 

 those before the Meeting being from Upper Clatford, near Andover. One of the 

 most remarkable facts connected with Niphargi was their occurrence in recently-sunk 

 wells ; they have in more than one instance been drawn up in large numbers by pumps 

 not two years's sunk. Their organization is of a very high character, but most of the 

 species, both in this country and on the Continent, are destitute of eyes. When in 

 captivity the movements of these Crustacea are exceedingly interesting, being grace- 

 ful and active, as well as peculiar ; but there is great difficulty in keeping them alive 

 for any length of time, owing to their sensitiveness to temperature ; a very cold 

 atmosphere at once deprives them of life. The limbs are also very fragile ; so that it 

 is difficult to transmit them with safety by post. The size of the largest species as yet 

 found in England, N. fontanus, reaches about half an inch. A description of the 

 British Niphargi and of their habits was made public in the ' Natural History Review 

 and Quarterly Journal of Science' for 1859, in papers by C. Spence Bate, Esq., and 

 the Rev. A. R. Hogan ; and a more complete account will be given in the British 

 Museum ' Catalogue of Crustacea,' now in the press. 



Mr. Hogan also exhibited a female specimen of Chirocephalus diaphanus, taken 

 at Shaftesbury, in Dorsetshire, last summer, furnishing a new locality for one of our 

 largest and most beautiful fresh-water Crustaceans. 



Mr. Lubbock said he was very glad to see some exhibitions which were a little out 

 of the ordinary course. Both the animals now exhibited by Mr. Hogan appeared to 

 be very local. He had himself some time ago brought to a meeting of the Society 

 some blind shrimps from a well at Brighton, and some specimens of Chirocephalus 

 diaphanus from a pond in Kent, between Bromley and Sevenoaks. He believed that 

 the present was the most northern locality in which this beautiful and interesting 

 Crustacean had hitherto been found. 



Mr. Lubbock then exhibited some specimens of Campodea Staphylinus, Weslw., 



