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sent by Lofling, and Rolander's name does not occur at all in connection 

 with the insect. 



" Now, the dodging about of this insect, or this supposed insect, from 

 one section and genus to another section and opposite genus would have a 

 justification of some kind if this treatment had been occasioned by dis- 

 coveries made in the interesting periods. Well; none such were made. 

 Says Dr. Hagen in 1861 : 



'"Obs. I am not accurately acquainted with this genus and species ; 

 several specimens in my collection which agree with Westwood's description 

 lead me to suppose that they are only a peculiar form of some species of 

 Psocus in which the wings are undeveloped (!), &c.' 



"Let us see then what discoveries he made before 1665. 'L. Fatidica, 

 Westwood. Unknown to me'; July, 1865 (2 Ent. Mo. Mag. 124). ' Atropos 

 Fatidica, Linne. I do not know this species'; July, 1865. 



" Mr. Dunning says with perfect truth that what Dr. Hagen did in the 

 case of pulsatoria was to transfer a name from one insect which he knew to 

 another insect which he knew. But what the author has done in the case 

 of the idea fatidicum is to invest the same thing first with one set of 

 characters and then with another set of characters, &c., while he has never 

 seen or identified the insect, and never met with or heard of any one who 

 has truly done so in his belief." 



December 2, 1872.— Prof. J. O. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Additions to the Library, 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — ' The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. iv., No. 10 ; Presented by the 

 Editor. ' The Zoologist' for December; by the Editor. 'The Entomolo- 

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

 for December ; by the Editors. ' Note on a Chinese Artichoke Gall (men- 

 tioned and figured in Dr. Hance's paper ' On Silkworm-oaks') allied to the 

 European Artichoke Gall of Aphilothrix gemmae, Linn.,' by Albert MiiUer, 

 F.L.S. ; by the Author. 



By purchase : — ' Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum syno- 

 nymicus et systematicus,' tome ix., pars J. 



Election of Members. 

 The following gentlemen were severally balloted for and elected : — Mens. 

 Henri de Saussure, of Geneva, as Honorary Member, in the room of 

 Professor Pictet, deceased; Mons. E. Pictet, of Geneva, as Foreign Member; 

 and Messrs. A. Phipson and G, W. Bird as Ordinary Members. 



