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sudden small lightnings : if they alight you may secure them, but on 

 the wing they dart so rapidly that it is difficult indeed. 



The Paphias being mostly dark coloured, it is not easy to follow 

 them, but they alight frequently, and so fall victims if you are patient. 

 I find these Paphias confine themselves to one place: I have tried 

 after one for an hour and given it up, and gone, a day or two after, to 

 the same spot and bagged it : this has happened repeatedly. 



The Mygales are found on the ground or on trees ; they make no 

 web, and are indifferent to day or night apparently. The way to 

 avoid them is to go everywhere on horseback, and to wear boots when 

 on foot. They live, as you know, on small birds and mice. Cattle 

 are not unfrequently lost from their bite, and it is highly dangerous to 

 go out at night where they reside in any abundance. 



Do you care for Neuroptera ? I send you one like a dragonfly with 

 butterfly antennae, [Ascalaphus.] 



Henry Birchall. 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Entomological Society. 

 June 5, 1865.— F. P. Pascoe, Esq., President, in ihe chair. 



Additions to the Library. 

 The followin,? donations were announced, and thanks voted to ihe donors — 'Pro- 

 ceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 72 ; presented l,y the Society. ' Transactions of 

 tlie Zoological Society,' Vol. v. P.rt 4 ; ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' 1864, 

 Pavts 1^3; by the Society. 'Annales de la Socieie Eiitomolof.iqne de France' 4me' 

 Sene, Tome iii., Tome iv. Trim. 1-3; by the Society. ' Essai AJunographiqne'sur ie 

 Boml.us n.ontanus et ses Variet.is,' par Dr. Sichel ; by the Author. ' A Letter to the 

 Irustees of the British Museum on the Condition of the National Collection of Inver- 

 lebrata : by Philocosmos ;' by the Author. 'The Zoologist' lor June; by the Editor. 

 Ihe Enlomolooisl's Monthly Magazine ' for June; by the Editors. 

 The following addition by purchase was also announced :-' Genera des Coleopt^res 

 d'Europe,' Livraisous 124—127. 



Election of Members. 

 Lieut. R. C. Beavan, Messrs. W. Borrer, G. R. Crotch, W. S. Dallas and T. G 

 Kylands were severally balloUed for, and elected Members. Messrs. T. Brunton' 

 B. Cooke and R. J. Ransome were severally hallotted for, and elected Annual Sub- 

 scnbers. 



Exhibitions, ^c. 

 The Rev. Hamlet Clark exhibited, and distributed amongst the Members, speci- 

 mens Of a beetle from British Kafif.aria, which appeared to be an entirely new form of 

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