Tur ZooLtocist—APpRIL, 1876. 4889 
Election of Members. 
Dr. G. Kraatz, President of the German Entomological Society, Berlin, 
and Mr. Clemens Miller, also of Berlin, were balloted for and elected 
Foreign Members; and Mr. Oliver E. Janson, hitherto a Subscriber, was 
elected an Ordinary Member. 
Exhibitions, ée. : 
Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited two grasshoppers in an undeveloped state, 
taken by himself in the Rhone Valley, in copuld—a peculiarity which was 
frequently noticed amongst the Hemiptera. He also exhibited a remarkable 
moth from Madagascar belonging to the family Uraniide, bearing a very 
striking resemblance to a Papilio, except that it had the antenne of a moth 
and the hind wings were destitute of tails. 
Mr. Edmund Y. Western exhibited some Coleoptera, taken chiefly in 
Switzerland. 
Mr. W. Arnold Lewis exhibited a specimen of Argynnis Dia taken in 
England by Mr. Wallace A. Smith, whom he presented to the Meeting. 
Mr. Smith stated, in answer to various enquiries by the President, that he 
captured the specimen himself in the year 1872, while sunning itself on 
some palings near his own house at Worcester Park, Surrey, and it was on 
an exceedingly hot day, though he did not remember the month. He had 
only commenced collecting insects in the preceding summer, and it was the 
first Fritillary he had ever had in his possession, and the specimen had 
never been out of his possession since. He was unable to identify the 
species at the time, and was not aware of the rarity of the insect until he 
showed it to Mr. Lewis. The specimen was handed to the Members and 
pronounced to be undoubtedly an Argynnis Dia. Mr. Lewis remarked that 
he had seen so many attacks in past publications on those who asserted 
that Dia was a British species, that he was very desirous that the testimony 
connected with the present capture should be recorded. 
The President noticed a paragraph in ‘ Newman’s Entomologist’ stating 
that the collection of butterflies and Moths formed by the late Mr. Henry 
Doubleday was now being exhibited at the Bethnal Green Museum; and 
he hoped that special care would be taken of it, as it was by far the most 
valuable collection of British Lepidoptera in existence. 
Mr. Dunning exhibited a pair of Caradrina morpheus taken in copula in 
the Regent’s Park, the male being dead, and, although still attached to the 
female, several eggs were laid and larve hatched therefrom in the box in 
which they were placed. 
Mr. Bates read a letter from Mr. Trovey Blackmore to Mr. M‘Lachlan, 
stating that he was much interested in observing a notice in the ‘ Pro- 
ceedings’ of this Society respecting the habits of Cychrus cylindricollis, 
reported by M. Baudi to feed on snails. He had already called attention (in 
