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Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 September 4, 1865.— Fkedeeick Smith, Esq., V.-P., in ihe chair. 



Additions to the Libraiy. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors: — 'The 

 Transactions of the Linnean Society,' vol. xxv., part 1 ; presented by the Society. 

 ' Bulletin de TAcadeinie Royale des Sciences, &c., de Belgique,' 2e serie, t. xviii., xix. ; 

 by the Academy. 'Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History,' vol. ix. 

 (part); by the Society. 'Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York,' 

 vol. viii., Nos. 1,2, 3; by the Lyceum. 'Monographs of the Diplera of North 

 America,' part 2, by Loew and Osten-Sacken ; by the Smithsonian Institution. ' Notes 

 on Humble Bees,' and 'Notes on the Leaf-cutting Bee,' by F. W. Putnam; by the 

 Author. 'The Humble Bees of New England and their Parasites,' by A. S. Packard, 

 jun.; by the Author. 'Remarks on some Characteristics of the Insect Fauna of the 

 White Mountains, New Hampshire,' by S. H. Soudder; by the Author. 'On the 

 Hymenoptera of Cuba,' by E. T. Cresson; by the Author. 'Catalogus specierum 

 generis Scolia,' part 2, by H. de Saussure and J. Sichel ; by the Authors. ' Slettiner 

 Enlom(dogische Zeitung,' 1865, Nos. 7 — 9; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 

 •^Noiice sur John Curtis' and ' Rectifications de la Nomenclature de |)lutieurs Especes 

 de Phasmides recemraent decrites,' by J. 0. Westwood; by the Author. 'The Zoolo- 

 gist' for September; by the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for 

 September; by the Editors. 



The addition, by purchase, of the 128th livr. of Duval, Migneaux et Fairmaire, 

 'Genera des C_oleopleres d'Europe,' was also announced. 



Election of Members. 

 Herr L. W. Schaufuss, of Dresden, was ballolted for and elected a Foreign 

 Member. The Rev. Sir C. R. Lighton, Bart., and H. T. Wood, Esq., were severally 

 ballotted for and elected Annual Subscribers. 



Exhibitions, ^-c. 



Mr. Bond exhibited an andromorphous female and a gynaecomorphous male of 

 Fidonia atomaria, thus showing each sex in the garb of the other: coupling this with 

 the exhibition at the previous Meeting of the andromorphous female of Fidonia pini- 

 aria (Zool. 9743), it seemed not unlikely that this peculiar form of variation might be 

 found to run through all the Fidoniae. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited two specimens of Gonepteryx Rhamni, one of which, a 

 male, had a broad stripe along the costa of the left anterior wing of the pale colour 

 peculiar to the female, whilst the other, a female, had large patches of the right 

 anterior wing of the deep colour peculiar to the male: he regarded these as simple 

 varieties, and not as cases of gynandromorphism or of the uuion or blending together 

 of the two sexes in the same individual. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a variety of Ennychia anguinalis, having a broad patchy 

 whitish marginal band on all the wings, external to the usual narrow white fascia. 



