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Election of Members. 



W. C. Dale, Esq., St. Pancras Vicarage, was elected a Member, and Messrs. Wal- 

 lace and Bates were elected Corresponding Members of the Society. 



Technical Trade Museum. 

 It was announced that the Council had resolved that the co-operation and aid of 

 the Society should be given to the " Technical Trade Museum," now forming by the 

 Society of Arts, under the direction of Mr. Solly ; and that any duplicate specimens 

 in the Society's collection, of insects beneficial or injurious to man, should be pre- 

 sented to it. 



Exhibitions. 



The Rev. Joseph Greene sent for exhibition a specimen of the rare Notodonta 

 Cucullina, bred from a larva found on maple, and N. trepida, also reared ; both larvae 

 having been taken at Halton, Bucks, last year. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited a pair of Aleucis pictaria, bred by a collector, who 

 had no recollection of the larvae. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two bred specimens of Anticlea Berberata, of which the upper 

 wings differed from each other in marking. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited larvae of Elachista cerusella, mining leaves of reeds, and 

 larvae of a new species of Elachista in leaves of Poa aquatica. These two kinds of 

 larvae are much alike; their manner of mining is somewhat similar, although in diffe- 

 rent plants; they had been considered to belong to one species (Zool. 4142), but the 

 pupae and perfect insects showed they were quite distinct ; and Mr. D. proposed to 

 call the new species E. Poa. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a fine Notodonta dictaeoides, and a pair of N. Carmelita, 

 taken in coitu, the female of which was still laying eggs. These insects were captured 

 on the 29th ult. at Shirwood Forest, where Mr. S. also took, under the bark of birch, 

 Hylecaetus dermestoides, larva, pupa, and imago ; the larvae he observed making 

 transverse galleries in the alburnum. He also exhibited Elater rufipennis, E. balte- 

 atus, E. crocatus, E. sanguineus, Ips 4-punctatus, &c., from the same locality. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited some shoots of ash, in which larvs of Prays Curtisellus 

 were burrowing beneath the bark; and stated that these larvse when young, last Octo- 

 ber, had mined the leaves of the ash : a figure, by Mr. Wing, of the young mining 

 larva, was also exhibited. Mr. S. observed that Guenee had said of this insect, — 

 " Species incertae sedis, donee larva latebit;" but he doubted whether the discovery of 

 the larva and its singular habits would tend to remove this uncertainty, as no other 

 larvae were known to have a similar economy. 



Mr. Stainton also exhibited some young shoots of the spindle-tree, which, as they 

 grew, drooped in consequence of a minute larva feeding on the pith ; these larvae, 

 however, soon leave the shoots, and spinning a few leaves together, feed thereon, thus 

 almost reversing the order of things which takes place with Prays Curtisellus. He 

 was at present unable to say to what species these larvae belonged, but he strongly sus- 

 pected they would produce Hyponomeuta plumbellus. 



Mr. Stainton also exhibited a new Lithocolletis larva, discovered in Scotland by 

 Mr. Scott, in the under side of the leaves of the bear-berry {Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi P), 



