3884 The Zoologist— February, 1874. 



' Exotic Butterflies,' part 89. ' Lepidoptera Exotica,' part xix., and ' Cistula 

 Entomologica,' part viii. ; by E. W. Jausou. ' L'Abeille,' 1873, livr. x., 

 and 1874, livr. i. ; by the Editor. ' The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. v., 

 nos. 10 and 11 ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Magazine ' for 

 January; by the Editors. ' Newman's Entomologist' and ' The Zoologist' 

 for January ; by the Editor. 



Election of Member. 



Captain George Cockle, of 9, Bolton Gardens, was balloted for and elected 

 a Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, tic. 



Mr. Meldola exhibited some photographs of minute insects taken with the 

 camera obscura and microscope. 



Mr. M'Lachlan called attention to a paper in the last part of the 

 'Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France,' by M. Bar and Dr. 

 Laboulbcne, on a species of the Bombycidae closely related to the tiger- 

 moths described and figured by M. Bar as Palustra Laboulbenei, and of 

 very extraordinary habits, the larva being aquatic, living in the canals of 

 the sugar plantations in Cayenne, and feeding upon an aquatic plant. The 

 hairy larva had all the form usual for the group, and breatlicd by means of 

 small spiracles — a supply of air being apparently entangled in its hairs. 

 The cocoons were joined together in little masses floating on the surface of 

 the water. 



Mr. Butler remarked on a paper by Mr. J. V. Riley, in the 'Journal of 

 the S. Louis Academy of Sciences,' in which he alluded to Apatura Lycaon, 

 Fab., and A. Hyrse, Fab., as distinct species: but which he (Mr. Butler) 

 believed to be closely allied to, if not identical with, Apatura Alicia, 

 Edicards. 



Mr. M'Lachlan read a letter that he had received from M. Ernest Olivier, 

 stating that the collection of insects formed by his grandfather had been 

 purchased some yeai-s after his death by MM. Chevrolat and Jousselin. 

 A great part of the collection had been suffered to fall into decay ; but 

 recently a portion, comprising the Curculionidae, Heteromera, Lamellicornes, 

 Sternoxi, Chrysomelidse, Clavicornes and Hydrocantharidae had come into 

 his possession, and he would be happy to show them to any English 

 entomologist who might desire to examine any of the numerous types. 

 Unfortunately the Carabidae and Longicornes were almost entirely lost. 



Pa2}ers read. 

 Mr. Smith communicated a paper on the Hymenopterous Genus Xylo- 

 copa; and Mr. D. Sharp a paper on the Pselaphidas and Scydmaenidae of 

 Japan, from the collections of Mr. George Lewis. — F. G. 



