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A communication was read from Prince Ladislas Lubomirski, containing 
the description of a collection of shells made in High Peru, by Messrs. 
Jelski and Stolzman. 
Mr. G. French Angas read a paper in which he gave the descriptions of 
two new species of Helia (Eurycratera) from 8.E. Betsileo, Madagascar. 
Mr. Arthur G. Butler read a paper on some Arachnida of Madagascar 
and the Mascarene Islands, in which an account was given of a collection 
of Spiders recently received by the British Museum from Réunion and 
Mauritius, through Mr. H. H. Slater. 
Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen and Mr. G. Nevill gave descriptions 
of two collections of Land Shells obtained at Perak and in the Nicobar 
Islands by Surgeon-Major E. Townsend and Dr. F. Stolizka. 
A communication was read from Dr. A. Ginther, containing a notice 
of a collection of Mammals and Reptiles recently received from Cyprus by 
Lord Lilford. 
Dr. F'. Day read a paper on the Fishes of Weston-super-Mare, a locality 
he had lately visited in order to enquire into some species described by 
Yarrell and Couch as found on this coast. Mr. Day also gave some account 
of the results of Lord Ducie’s trawling investigations in Ballinskelley Bay, 
on the coast of Ireland; and described a specimen of the Long Flounder 
received from Mr. M. Dunn, of Mevagissy, in Cornwall.—P. L. Sctarrr, 
Secretary. 
EntomoLogicat Society or Lonpon. 
November 5, 1879.—H. W. Batss, F.L.S., F.Z.8., Vice-President, in 
the chair. 
Mr. Stainton read two letters from Lord Walsingham, setting forth in 
a more detailed manner the objects which his lordship had in view in 
offering the prizes referred to at the last meeting through the Council of the 
Society. 
After some remarks by Mr. Stainton, Prof. Westwood, Mr. P. Wormald, 
and others, the Chairman stated that the decision at which the Council had 
arrived might be considered as final. 
Mr. T. R. Billups, of 4, Swiss Villas, Coplestone Road, Peckham, was 
balloted for and elected an Ordinary Member. 
Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a remarkable variety ot Aspilates citraria, 
a specimen of Cidaria testata in which the hind-wings were completely 
absent, and a Noctua resembling Hadena dentina, but differing from this 
species in the form of the body, taken at Ilfracombe. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan said he was once more compelled to bring the subject of 
the sculptured stones on the shores of the Swiss lakes before the notice of 
the Society. Professor Forel, upon seeing the notice of the last meeting in 
‘Nature,’ had written to him, explaining at length the nature of those 
