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A. Mercev, Dr. Colquhoun and Sir William V. Guise, Bart., were sevferally ballotled 

 for, and elected Members. 



Messrs. A. H. Hudd, Evan John, E. Meek and Morris Young were severally 

 ballolted for, and elected Annual Subscribers. 



Special Vole of Thanks. 

 On the proposition of Mr. Dunning, seconded by Mr. Stainton, a special vote was 

 unanimously carried, returning thanks to Mr. W. W. Saunders for his hospitable 

 reception of the Society at Eeigate on the 23rd ult. 



Exhibitions, ^-c. 



Mr, Bond exhibited Eupithecia carapanulata (H.-S.), a species new to Britain, 

 bred by the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe from larvae found in a beech wood near Tring, 

 Herts, feeding on the unripe seeds and seed-capsules of the nettle-leaved campanula 

 (C. Trachelium, Linn.) in August, 1864. See Zool. 9260 ; Ent. Mo. Mag. i. 142. 

 The perfect insects emerged in June, 1865. Also Eupithecia pulchellala (Ste.), bred 

 at the end of May last from pupae sent to him by Mr. C. S. Gregson, of Liverpool, 

 who found the larvee on the foxglove {Digitalis purpurea). 



Mr. Bond also exhibited three specimens of Toxocampa Cracc®, bred from eggs 

 sent by the Rev. E. Horton to Dr. Knaggs ; the larvae fed for the first day on Latbyrus 

 pratensis, subsequently on Oiobus tuberosus, and eventually had choice between 

 the last-mentioned plant and Vicia sepium, and fed freely and indiflferently on 

 either. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited cocoons of Pyralis glaucinalis, sent to him by Mr. Edwin 

 Brown, of Burton-on-Trent, and which were remarkable for their broad and flat 

 form ; also larvae of Ceraiostoma LotelJa, mining in the leaves of Lotus major, 

 sent to him by Mr. T. Wilkinsou from Scarborough : a peculiarity of this species 

 was that the egg, after hatching, was distinctly visible in the mine as a bright 

 metallic spot. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark exhibited a miscellaneous collection of beetles captured by 

 Lieut. Julian Hobson, at various times and in various localities in Central India, 

 whence the insects had been sent in glass tubes by post; and read the following 

 (addressed to the Editor of the ' Ceylon Examiner '), also received from Lieut. Hob- 

 son: — 



" Sir, — I shall feel thankful if any of your readers could inform me whether the 

 Lampyris, or glow-worms, met with in Ceylon, exhibit any variety in the number of 

 their phosphorescent lights; and if so by how many lights they differ. 



"Mr. Milne Edwards describes one species, a native of the hot regions of America, 

 which emits light from certain spots situated over the two or three last rings of the 

 abdomen. The tangun, also a native of Ainerica, is described as emitting light from 

 analogous spots over the prothorax. Sir Emerson Teniient, iu the second volume of 

 his work on Ceylon, in a foot-note in p. 257, says he has seen the insect three inches 

 long, 'but without a proportionate increase of splendour.' 



"I have caught an insect two inches long, and for the number and beauty of its 

 lights I never saw anything to equal it, nor indeed has any European or native to 

 whom I have shown it. The Lampyris in question is of a dirty pale orange colour, 

 and of the thickness of a goose-quill. It can contract or elongate itself at pleasure ; 



