2030 The Zoologist— February, 1870. 



Paper read. 



The fdllouing paper was read :— " Xote on Boreus bycmalis and B. Weslwoodii," 

 hv Mr. M'Liichlan. 



January 3, 1870.— H. \V. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Additions lo the Library. 



The folldwiiig di)nations were announced, and ibanks voted to the donors : — 

 ' Proceedings of the Ri))al Society,' No. 1 15 ; presented by the Society. ' Proceedings 

 of the Liunean Society,' 1869; by the Society. ' Bulletin de la Soc. Imp. des Natu- 

 ralistes de Moscou,' 1868, No.4 ; by the Society. ' Mitlbeiliingen der Schweizerischen 

 Entomologiscben Gesellschaft,' vol. iii. No. 3; by the Suuiety. ' Tlie Tineiua of 

 Southern Europe,' and 'The Entomologist's Annual for 1870;' by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 

 ' Equatorial Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Buckley,' Parts 1 — 3; by W. C. Hewitson, 

 Esq. ' Lepidoptera Exotica,' Part 3 ; by E. W. Janson, Esq. ' Observations on the 

 Parasitism of Rhipiphorus paradoxus;' by Frederick Smith, Esq. 'Reflexions et 

 Experiences sur le vol des Coleopteres; by M. Felix Plateau. ' Pelites Nouvelles 

 Entomologiques,' Nos. 1—12; by the Editor. 'The Zoologist,' for January ; by the 

 Editor. ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' for January; by the Editors. 



The following additions by purchase were also announced: — Palisot de Beauvois, 

 ' Insectes rccueillis en Afrique et en Amerique;' Ehrenberg 5c Klu^r, ' Syniboia; 

 Physica?;' Brulle el Blanchard, 'Voyage de d'Orbigny ;' Motschulsky, 'Eludes 

 Entomologiques ;' and Lowne, ' The Anatomy and Physiology of the Blow-fly.' 



Exhibiliun.t, ^-c. 



Mr. IJewilson sent for exhibition a cidleciion of butterflies, including 135 new 

 and many rare species, all in beautiful condition, collected by Jlr. Buckley in Equa- 

 torial America. With two exceptions, Heliconia Cythera and Terias Ecuadur.i, 

 which were taken on the west side of the Andes, the new species were all captured 

 between St. Incs and St. Rosa on the River Napo, within two degrees of longitude, 

 and descriptions thereof were in course of publication under the title of ' Equatorial 

 Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Buckley.' 



Mr. Buckley (who was present as a Visitor) gave some interesting details of his 

 slay in Ecuador. In reply lo enquiries, he stated that the localities for each species 

 were carefully noted at the end of each day's collecting ; that generally speaking there 

 seemed to be a species of Heliconia peculiar to each valley ; that a few species occurred 

 on both sides of the Andes, and in particular a Heliconia and a Morpho were men- 

 tioned ; and that there was great difference in the altitudes at which the exhibited 

 insects were collected, some of them, and in particular a Pronophila, having been 

 taken above the snow-level. 



Prof. VVestwood, as an instance of partial gynandroinorphism, in which the union 

 of the opposite sexual characters was confined to a single limb, exhibited drawings of 

 a specimen of Anlhocharis Cardamines, the wings of which, for the most part male, 

 partook lo some cxlcnl of the colour and character of the female, as if pieces of the 



