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May 7, 1865. 

 John Cubtis, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 donors : — ' Proceedings of the Boyal Society,' Vol. vii. No. 11 ; by the Society. The 

 ' Athenajum' for March and April ; by the Editor. The ' Literary Gazette' for April ; 

 by the Editor. The 'Zoologist' for May; by the Editor. 'List of Specimens of 

 Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,' Part ii., Lepidoptera- 

 Heterocera; by F. Walker, Esq. 'A List of the British Species of Geodephaga in- 

 tended for marking Desiderata and Labelling Collections, taken from Mr. Dawson's 

 Geodephaga Britannica,' by G. Guyon; two copies, by the Author. ' Annales de la 

 Societe Entomologique de France,' 3me Serie, Tome ii., 4me Trimestre ; by the 

 Society. ' Verhandlungeu des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien,' Band iii. 

 1853, Band iv. 1854; by the Society. ' Entomologische Zeitung' for March and 

 April, 1855 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. Trachodes hispidus, one speci- 

 men ; by F. Plant, Esq., of Leicester. Trachodes hispidus, one specimen ; Lina 

 acnea, two specimens ; Callistus lunatus, two specimens ; by F. Bates, Esq., of 

 Leicester. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Crewe exhibited two specimens of Notodonta cucuUina bred from the eggs. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited six specimens of Notodonta carmelita reared from the eggs; 

 also live specimens of Aleucis pictaria, taken within the last week at Dartford Heath. 



Mr. Foxcroft sent for exhibition three specimens of Endromis versicolor, taken by 

 him in the birch wood, Fincastle, Perthshire, on the 18th of April. 



The Rev. W. H. Hawker exhibited a specimen of the very rare Cloantha perspi- 

 cillaris, taken in a spider' web at Ashford, Hants; and two specimens of Argynnis 

 Lathonia, captured in that locality. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a Dicranocejjhala, taken in China by Mr. Fortune, which 

 was thought to be distinct from D. Wallichii. 



Mr. Newman exhibited three species of the Australian genus Deretaphrus, de- 

 scribed in the Appendix to the ' Zoologist,' p. 207, all of them remarkable for the 

 excavation in the prothorax, from which the genus received its name : he added that 

 an admirable description and summary of the characters of this curious genus, from 

 the pen of that accomplished Coleopterist, Mr. Wollaston, was prefixed to the 

 descriptions of the species. 



Mr. Newman also exhibited two beautiful specimens of that rare Australian beetle, 

 the Diphyllocera gemellata of Westwood, admirably described and figured in our 

 'Transactions,' vol. i. p. 214, and tab. xxii. fig. 1. They have been most obligingly 

 placed in Mr. Newman's hands by Mr. James Gibbon, together with an immense 

 number of rarities and novelties collected by himself at Moreton Bay. 



Mr. Newman also exhibited the unique specimen of Dohrnia miranda, one of the 

 Australian O^demeridae, described by him at p. 133 of the Appendix to the ' Zoologist: ' 

 he wished particularly to invite attention to the perfectly anomalous structure of the 

 antennae of this insect. 



