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another species or sub-species of the genus had now been received from Mozambique, 

 oil the Eastern Coast of Africa, and yet it had a great resemblance to the forms from 

 Tropical Western Africa. 



Economy of various Insects. 

 Mr. Curtis read a paper entitled ' Notes on the Economy of Various Insects.' 



Essay on the British Formicidoe. 



Mr. Smith read ' An Essay on the Genera and Species of the British Formicidae,' 

 in which twenty-eight species were described, being an addition of eleven species to 

 the list of species known in 1851. 



January 1, 1855. 

 Edward Newman, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 the donors: — The 'Zoologist' for January; by the Editor. The 'AthenEeum' for 

 December; by the Editor. The ' Literary Gazette' for December; by the Editor. 

 The 'Journal of the Society of Arts' for December; by the Society. ' Entomolo- 

 gische Zeitung ' for November and December ; ' Linnaa Entomologica,' 9 Band ; all 

 by the Entomological Society of Stettin. Hewitson's ' Exotic Butterflies,' Parts 12 

 and 13; by W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. 'Transactions of the Linnean Society,' Vol. 

 xxi. Part 3; 'Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Nos. 52 — 58; ' List of the Lin- 

 nean Society, 1854;' 'Address of T. Bell, Esq., President of the Linnean Society, 

 at the Anniversary, May 24th, 1854 ;' all by the Linnean Society. ' Proceedings of 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool,' 1853 — 4 ; by the Society. ' The 

 Entomologist's Annual for 1855;' by the Editor, H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a living specimen of Cratonychus castanipes, Payk., one 

 of the Elateridte, which he found a few days since in the centre of a large mass of 

 rotten wood thoroughly permeated with fungoid matter, which he dug out of an old 

 oak stump, and within which it lay in an oval cell, at one end of which were seen the 

 pellicles of the larva and pupa. This species, kindly determined by Mr. Jauson, has 

 not hitherto been recorded as British, though it probably exists in most collections 

 mixed with Melanotus fulvipes, which it greatly resembles. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a fine specimen of the male of Jumnos Ruckeri, from Dar- 

 jeeling, and a fine female of Dicranocephala Wallichii, from India ; both beetles out 

 of the same collection. 



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