Dr. Royle had kindly promised that the information at present possessed l)y the East 

 India Company, or any other that the resources of tliat Company could procure from 

 India on the subject, should be at the service of those who might be induced to take 

 it up. 



Election of Members. 

 The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected Members of the Society : — 

 George Browuell, Esq., Shaw Street, Liverpool ; John Maxwell Savage, Esq., 26, 

 Gloucester Place, Portman Square ; Francis P. Pascoe, Esq., F.L.S., Fern Lodge, 

 Kensington ; Jacob Birt, Esq., Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park : and J. R. S. Clifford, 

 Esq., Pimlico, was elected a Subscriber. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. E. L. Layard exhibited several large cases of Lepidoptera collected by him 

 during a residence of several years in Ceylon ; nearly all in fine condition, and 

 including species of great beauty and rarity. 



The President exhibited a perfect male and female, as well as the larva-case and 

 a drawing of the larva of a S;icktrager, found by Mr. Bates in the interior of Brazil ; 

 it was evidently a species of Saccophora, and he proposed to call the species Batesii : 

 he was preparing a detailed account of this curious genus, to which he would again 

 call the attention of the Society as soon as some illustrative drawings had been 

 prepared. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a Phigalia pilosaria, taken at Wh p.m., on the 21st of 

 January, sitting on a gas-lamp, at Lee. This ai)pearance, so very early in the season, 

 was the more remarkable from the continued low temperature existing to within 

 a few days previous. He remarked also, with reference to the hour of its capture, that 

 he had always seen moths on the street-lamps to be more numerous after 10 o'clock at 

 night. Since the late mild weather had set the grass growing, he had noticed young 

 hybernated larvae of Elachistee mining in the newly formed leaves. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited Argynnis Paphia, $ , a variety in which the black spots 

 on the upper surface of the wings, usually of a round form, were run together into oval 

 patches; also Argynnis Euphrosyne, $, a variety with a black band across the centre 

 of all the wings, giving it the appearance of a distinct species. Both specimens were 

 captured by Mr. Johnson, near Ipswich. Mr. Stevens also exhibited specimens 

 of Elater imjtressus, Fah., a new British species, captured at Rannoch, in 1853, 

 by Mr. Weaver and Mr. Foxcroft. 



British Elateridce. 

 Mr. Curtis read a paper entitled " Critical Remarks upon the British Elateridae, 

 with Descriptions of some of the Species.'' 



New Work on the Genera of Coleoptera. 

 Mr. Waterhouse called the attention of the Meeting to a work about to be pub- 

 lished in Paris, by subscription, entitled ' Genera des Coleopteres,' par M. Jacquelin 

 du Val, with plates by M. Jules Migneaux. The whole work will be comprised in 

 86 parts, large 8vo., each of which will contain 3 plates of 5 coloured types, details of 

 generic characters, and corresponding text, and the price li franc. 



