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Zoologist' for July; by the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for 

 July; by the Editors. 



The following additions by purchase were also announced :—Aube, ' Pselapliorum 

 Monographia'; Chevrolat, ' Coleopieies du Mexique'; A. de Norguet, ' Catalogue 

 des Coleopieies du Deparimeut du Nord'; J. Thomson, 'Arcana Naturae'; West- 

 wood, 'Arcana Entouoologica.' 



Election of Members. 

 The Hon. Thomas De Grey, M.P., of 23, Arlington Street, and Christopher 

 Ward, Esq., of Halifax, were elected Members. 



Exhibitions, ^-c. 

 Mr. Stainton exhibited larvjE of Laverna phragmitella in a head of Typha latifolia ; 

 and .specimens of the Gelechia, very like G. leucomelanella, bred from Gypsophila 

 saxifraga, to which reference was made at the two previous Meetings. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen of Dianthscia caesia taken by Mr. Hopley in the 

 Isle of Man, where the species had recently been discovered by Mr. Gregson (see ' The 

 Entomologist,' vol. iii. p. 10.3). 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited an old specimen of the same .species, from Bentley's 

 collection, labelled " caesia," in the hand-writing of the late Mr. Bentley. This speci. 

 men was reputed to have been captured in Yorkshire; and the fact that it precisely 

 resembled the specimens from the Isle of xMan (which differed from the typical Conti- 

 nental form of the insect, and seemed to be a permanent variety) was in favour of the 

 British origin of Mr. Bentley's specimen. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a Phycita captured in the Isle of Man by Mr. Hopley, 

 and which he believed would prove to be a new species ; specimens of Sesia philanthi- 

 formis bred from pupae sent to him by Mr. Greening from the Isle of Man; and a 

 series of bred specimens of Papilio Machaon from Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, 

 remarkable for their large size, as were most of the specimens of that butterfly which 

 he had bred during the present season. 



Mr. Edward Saunders exhibited a collection of Mexican butterflies, amongst which 

 were Papilio Asclepias and others of that genus, and a gynandromorphous Euterpe 

 (sp.?), of which the right side was male, the left female. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited Dicranocephala Wallichii from North India, and D. 

 Bowringii from South China. 



The Secretary read the following extracts from the ' Journal of the Society of Arts ' 

 of 29th June, 1866:— 



"Insect Wax. — The trade in this article in China is large. In 1864, from the 

 single port of Hankow alone, 5100 cwt. were exported. It is taken by the Chinese as 

 medicine, but is principally used as stearine in the manufacture of candles. It is one 

 of the most valuable of the many products of Sze-Chuen, being worth sixty and 

 seventy taels per picul (133 tbs). The wax is deposited, for the protection of its eggs, 

 by an insect which inhabits the trees on which the wax is secreted. The formation of 

 the wax was a subject which occupied the especial attention of M. Simon, a French 

 savant, who, a year or two ago, passed a considerable lime in the inteiior, during 

 which he is said to have traversed the greater portion of Sze-Chuen, and to have 



