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August 7, 1854. 

 H. T. Stainton, Esq., Vice-President, in the cliair. 



Do7iatio7is. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors : — ' Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France,' 2nie Serie, tome x. 1852, 

 and 3me Serie, tome i. 1853 ; by the Society. 'Memoires de la Societe de Physique 

 et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve,' tome xiii. 2me partie; by the Society. 'Journal 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' vol. xv. part 1 ; by the Society. ' INIono- 

 graphie des Giiepes Sociales,' cahier (5; by the Author, M. H. de Saussure. ' Revue 

 et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1853, No. 10, and 1854, Nos. 5 and 6; by the Editor, M. 

 Gueriu-Meneville. The 'AlhenEPum' for July; by the Editor. The ' Literary Ga- 

 zette ' for July ; by the Editor. The ' Journal of the Society ^f Arts ' for July ; by the 

 Society. The 'Zoologist' for August; by the Editor. ' Entomologische Zeitung,' 

 for May and June ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' A List of the British 

 Tineina, for interchange among collectors and for labels ; ' by the Author, H. T. Stain- 

 ton, Esq. Specimens of Anlhrocera Minos for distribution among the Members; by 

 A. G. More, Esq. 



Election of a Member. 

 J. R. Turner, Esq., Manchester, was elected a Subscriber. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Boyd exhibited Limacodes Asellus, $ and $ , recently taken in the New 

 Forest. 



Mr. Ingpen exhibited a box of Australian Diptera and Hymenoptera, chiefly from 

 the vicinity of Adelaide. He also exhibited an exotic wasps' nest, but by what species 

 made he was not aware, which he had examined microscopically, and found to be wholly 

 composed of fungoid matter. He thought it probable that the nests of some of our 

 native species were not made altogether of wood, as is generally believed, and in cor- 

 roboration of this idea exhibited a piece of decayed wood from one of the cedars in the 

 Botanic Garden at Chelsea, in which was a layer of fungus, and wasps, he said, were 

 observed to frequent this tree for building materials. 



Mr. Curtis said he had often seen wasps scraping off and carrying away particles 

 from wooden palings where there certainly was no fungus. 



Mr. Wing said he had recently seen wasps carrying away the pile from the leaves 

 of a species of mullein. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a drawing of a variety of a larva of Acherontia Atropos made 

 by a gentleman, who thought it might be a distinct species, but the imago reared from 

 it (which was also exhibited) proved to be only a very slight variety; and Mr. West- 

 wood, referring to Fuessly's ' Archives,' showed that the same variation from the or- 

 dinary colour of the larva was there figured. 



