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Mr, Herbert Jenner Fust, jun., communicated a paper "On the Distribution of 

 Lepidoptera in. Great Britain and Ireland," showing the occurrence or non-occurrence 

 of all the indigenous species, except the Tortrices and Tineas, iu provinces and sub- 

 provinces, after the manner adopted with respect to plants in Watson's ' Cybele 

 Britannica.' 



Mr. Edward Saunders communicated a paper entitled " Notes on Rare and Descrip- 

 tions of New Species of Buprestidae, collected by Mr. Lamb at Penang." Fifteen new 

 species were characterized, one of them being the type of a new genus, Xenopsis, 

 closely allied to Castalia. 



March 4, 1867.— Fhedekick Smith, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



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

 ■ On certain Entomological Speculations, a Review,' by A. S. Packard, jun., M.D. ; 

 presented by the Author. 'The Zoologist' for March; by the Editor. 'The 

 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for March ; by the Editors. 



Purchased : — Lepelletier de St. Fargeau et Brulle, ' Histoire Naturelle des 

 Insectes Hymenopteres,' 4 vols, and 4 parts of coloured plates. 



Election of Member. 



Alexander H. Clarke, Esq., of 16, Furnival's Inn, E.C., was ballotted for, and 

 elected a Member. 



Exhibitions, §-c. 



The Secretary exhibited a box of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera collected in Mada- 

 gascar and Mayotte by M. F.angois Pollen, of Leyden, by whom they were presented 

 to the Society; perhaps the most interesting insect was Slernotomis Thomson} 

 Bvc/uet. ' 



Mr. Bond exhibited specimens of a small Ichneumon, parasitic on the larva of 

 Dasypoha templi, no less than 447 having emerged from a single larva. 



The Secretary exhibited drawings of the male and female of a species of Phasma, 

 together with the larva and pupa of an Ichneumon which infested the female, and the 

 imago «,f a species of Cbalcididoe which was said to infest the egg of the Phasma ; 

 and read the following note, communicated by Prof. Huxley:— 



« Anisomorpha buprestoides.-This Phasma, found by Titian R. Peale in South 

 America, has come under my observation in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Jamaica, in 

 one locality only, to which it curiously seems confined. As nothing appears" to be 

 known of some of its striking peculiarities, it may not be uninteresting to notice in 

 detail the result of an attentive study of its habits and nature. It is of a dirty yellow- 

 ochre colour, with its antennae, which are long and slender, composed of alternate 

 black and yellowish joints. The male, which is much smaller than the female, is about 



