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tbat it was a wasp. The notelied eye was found in JIulillidiE and Trypoxylon ; and 

 there were none «f the Vespida in which the prothorux was not continued down to ihe 

 insertion of the wings, in which character Sibyllina agreed with the Sphegidae. 



December 7, 1868. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The Secretary announced the death of Prof. Boheman, an Honorary Member of 

 the Society: he died at Stockholm on the 2nd of November, at the age of seventy-two 

 years. 



Additions to the Library. 



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

 'Annales de la Societe Eutomologique de France,' 1867; presented by the Society. 

 'Journal of the Linnean Society;' Zoology, No. 44 ; by the Society. ' Slettiner 

 Entomologische Zeilung,' Vol. xxix. Nos. 10 — 12; by the Society. 'Memoires sur 

 la Famille des Carabiques,' and twenty-six other Papers, by the Baron M. de Chau- 

 doir; by the Author. 'Etudes sur la Parthenogenese,' par Felix Plateau; by the 

 Author. 'A short Campaign against the White Borer (Xytotrechus quadnipes, 

 Chevrolat,) in the Coffee Districts of Coorg, Munzerabad and Nuggur,' by Lieut.-Col. 

 C. P. Taylor ; by the Author. Newman's ' British Moths,' No. 24 ; by the Author. 

 'The Zoologist' for December; by ihe Editor. 'The Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine' lor December; by the Editors. 



The following additions, by purchase, were also announced: — 'Genera des 

 Coleopteres d'Europe,' livr. 137—144. 'Record of Zoological Literature,' 1867, 

 (Entomological Part). 



Election of Members. 



A. G. Butler, Esq., of the British Museum, and Dr. F. Buchanan White, of Perth, 

 were elected Members. 



Exhibitions, ^e. 



The Secretary announced that an exhibition of bees would be held at Milan, from 

 the lOlh to the 13th of the month, and would comprise a collection of all kinds of 

 bees, honey, and instruments and utensils employed in apiculture, for which various 

 prizes would be distributed. A silver medal was also offered for the best mode of 

 taking the honey without destroying the bees. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two specimens of Limeuiiis Sibylla, negroes, entirely black on 

 the upper side ; and three specimens of Polyommalus Adonis, cue of which, a male, 

 was remarkable for its extremely small size, another bore on the under side of the fore 

 wings a number of broad bars of black, whilst the third, a female, was partly coloured 

 like the male, the upper surface of the wings being dashed with bright blue, not 

 shading off into the brown, but clearly and sharply defined. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited the gyuandromorphuus specimen of Lasiocampa Qnercus 

 bred by Mr. Wilson, and mentioned at the Meeting of November 2iid (Zool. S. S. 

 1487). 



Mr. Dullon exhibited a Catocala Fraxini, captured in an empty house at East- 

 bourne in August last. 



