4308 THE ZooLoGis1—JANUARY, 1875. 
November 16,1874.—J. W. Dunnixe, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, 
in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—‘ The Journal of the Linnean Society,’ Zoology, no. 58; presented 
by the Society. ‘The Canadian Entomologist,’ vol. vi., no.9; by the Editor. 
The ‘ Zoologist’ and ‘ Newman’s Entomologist’ for November; by the Editor. 
‘ L’Abeille,’ tome xi., livr. 19 ; by the Editor. 
Election of Subscribers. 
R. E. Bull, Esq., of 85, Milton-street, Dorset-square; F'. Fitch, Esq., of 
Hadleigh House, Highbury New Town; and H. D’Arcy Power, of 8, Manor- 
terrace, Camberwell, were elected Subscribers. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. Higgins exhibited some rare species of Cetoniide from Borneo, viz. 
Lomaptera Higginsii, O. Janson, and a remarkable Dynastiform insect 
named by Count Castelnau, Westwoodia Howittii. Also two smaller speci- 
mens which had been supposed to be females of the last-named species, but 
were, more probably, females of an insect of which the male was unknown. 
The Secretary exhibited a collection of fine species of Lepidoptera, 
forwarded by Mr. W. D. Gooch, from Natal, for determination. 
The Rev. O. Pickard Cambridge sent a note on the curious spider's nest 
exhibited at the last meeting. It was unknown to him, and had it not been 
for a remark in Mr. Ward's letter implying that the nest he found belonged 
to a symmetrical (geometrical) web, he should have conjectured that it was 
the work of an Agelena. If, however, the nest was appurtenant to a sym- 
metrical web it must belong to a spider of the family Epéirides. He did 
not think the sand in the nest was at all designed as ballast, but as a 
protection against the heat of the sun (sand being a non-conductor) and also 
against parasites. Mr. Smith remarked that the mud-coating of the nest of 
Agelena brunnea did not preserve that species from parasites, as he had 
often bred a species of Pezomachus from the nests, and he believed, in those 
instances, the spider’s eggs had been attacked before the mud-coating was 
added. 
Mr. Champion exhibited some rare species of British Coleoptera, viz. :— 
Apion Ryei, taken by Mr. Lilley in Shetland; Abdera triguttata, from 
Avienda, Inverness-shire ; Lymexylon navale, taken by Messrs. Sidebotham 
and Chappell at Dunham Park, Manchester; Athous subfuscus, taken by 
the Rev. T. Blackburn in Shetland; and Apion sanguineum and Silvanus 
similis from Esher.—F’. G. 
