4506 THE ZooLtocist—JuNE, 1875. 
the Bellary Hills, India, by the Hon. J. Dormer, by whom it had been 
presented to the British Museum. It was proposed to name it Scotozous 
Dormeri. 
A communication was read by Lieut. W. Vincent Legge, R.A., giving 
particulars of the breeding of certain Grallatores and Natatores on the 
South-Hastern coast of Ceylon, together with notes on the nestling plumages 
of the same.—P. L. Sclater. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL Society or Lonpon. 
April 5,1875.—Sir Sipyey SmitH Saunpers, C.M.G., President, in the 
chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :— Report of the Commissioners of Agriculture for the year 1872’; 
presented by the United States Government. ‘ Monographs of the Diptera 
of North America,’ part iii., by H. Loew; ‘Directions for Collecting and 
Preserving Insects,’ by A. S. Packard, jun., M.D.; ‘ New Species of North 
American Coleoptera,’ by John L. Leconte, M.D., part ii.; ‘ Classification 
of the Coleoptera of North America,’ by John L. Leconte, M.D., part ii. ; 
by the Smithsonian Institution. ‘ Bullettino della Societa Entomologica 
Italiana,’ anno sesto, trim. i—iv.; by the Society. ‘The Journal of the 
Quekett Microscopical Club,’ No. 28; by the Club. ‘The Canadian 
Entomologist,’ vol. vii., no. 2; by the Editor. ‘ L’Abeille,’ tome xii.,: 
livr. 4and 5; by the Editor. ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,’ 
for April; by the Editors. ‘ Newman's Entomologist’ and ‘The Zoologist,’ 
for April; by the Editor. ‘Exotic Butterflies,’ part 94; by W. C. 
Hewitson, Esq. 
Election of a Member. 
Mr. William Lucas Distant, of Streatham Cottage, Dulwich, was halboted 
for and elected an Ordinary Member. 
Exhibitions, éc. 
Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a number of young Mantide that had 
emerged from an egg-case received from Ceylon, and remarked on their 
great resemblance to those recently exhibited from Borneo. 
Mr. Bond exhibited a locust which had been taken alive at the bottom of 
a dry well near the Race Mill, Brighton. The species was uncertain. 
Mr. Sealy read the following notes on the species of Ornithoptera exhibited 
at the last Meeting :— 
“The insect occurs in tolerable abundance along the coast of South 
What 
