4582 THE ZooLtocist—Auveust, 1875. 
The Secretary exhibited some specimens of a minute Podura forwarded to 
him by the Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, having been found 
on the snow of the Sierra Nevada in California. 
Mr. F. H. Ward exhibited some microscopic slides showing specimens of 
a flea attached to the skin of the neck of a fowl, and which remained there 
after the death of the fowl. 
Papers read, éc. 
Prof Westwood communicated descriptions of a new genus (Allochotes) of 
Clerideous Coleoptera from the Malayan Archipelago. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan read a paper entitled “ A Sketch of our present Know- 
ledge of the Neuropterous Fauna of Japan (excluding Odonata and 
Trichoptera).” 
New Part of ‘ Transactions.’ 
Part 1 of the ‘ Transactions’ of the Society for 1875 was on the table. 
July 5, 1875.—Sir Smwney Sire Savunvers, C.M.G., President, in the 
chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the didnbnrsie 
—‘ Fedtschenko’s Travels in Turkestan,’ tome ii., part 5—Neuroptera, by 
R. M‘Lachlan; presented by the Author. ‘ Proceedings of the Scientific 
Meetings of the Zoological Society of London,’ 1874, part iv.; 1875, part 1; 
by the Society. ‘Seventh Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial, and 
other Insects of the State of Missouri, made to the Board of Agriculture, 
pursuant to an Appropriation for the purpose from the Legislature of the 
State,’ by Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist; by the Author. ‘The 
Canadian Entomologist,’ vol. vii., no. 5; by the Editor. ‘ Newman’s Ento- 
mologist’ and ‘ The Zoologist,’ for July; by the Editor. ‘The Entomologist’s 
Monthly Magazine,’ for July ; by the Editors. ‘Exotic Butterflies,’ part 95 ; 
by the Author, W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 
By purchase: —‘ Skandinaviens Hymenoptera,’ bearbetade af C. G. 
Thomson, vol. iii., parts 1 and 2. 
The President announced the decease of Mr. Henry Doubleday, one 
of the Original Members of the Society; and Mr. Stainton made some 
remarks on his entomological labours, and on the great service he had 
done for Entomology in correcting the nomenclature of the British Lepi- 
doptera. 
Election of Members. 
Alfred Forbes Sealy, Esq., of Cochin, South India, and William Borrer, 
jun., Esq., of Cowfold, Sussex, were balloted for and elected Ordinary 
Members; and W. D. Gooch, Esq., of Spring Vale, Natal, was elected a 
Subscriber. 
