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examination of Mr. Janson, and he believed no one understood our British Elateridaj 

 so thoroughly, and Mr. Janson pronounced the species to be perfectly distinct from 

 any other British Elater with which he was acquainted. The specimens are two 

 males and one female; they differ considerably in size and colour, but evidently 

 belong to the same species. Mr. Newman remarked that the time and locality were 

 very inviting to out-of-door entomologists, and he hoped to incite some of his 

 brethren of the net to a further search : the species, he observed, was probably Con- 

 tinental, as well as insular, but he knew of no other description than the one to which 

 he had alluded. He added that, since he had been in the room, Mr. Dawson had 

 shown him a specimen taken also at Ramsgate. 



Death of Dr. De Haan. 



The Secretary announced that the Council had been informed of the death of 

 Dr. De Haan, one of the Honorary Members of the Society, at the age of fifty- 

 four years. 



Election of Members. 



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

 Henry Ansell, Esq., Tottenham ; John Matthew Jones, Esq., Welshpool ; and Joseph 

 Baly, Esq., Kentish Town. 



Saturnia Ricini. 



Mr. Douglas called the attention of the Society to the note by Dr. Boisduval, in 

 the ' Annales' of the Entomological Society of France, on the Indian Saturnia, which 

 feeds, in the larva slate, on the castor-oil plant, the insect being quite distinct from 

 S. Cynthia, with which it has been confounded, and Dr. Boisduval proposes for it the 

 name of S. Ricini, after its food-plant. 



Descriptions of new European Lepidoptera, Formicidce, Diptera, Arac/mida, ^-c. 



Mr. Douglas also directed attention to the ' Verhandlungen' of the Zoologisch- 

 Botanischen Verein of Vienna, containing many entomological articles of great interest, 

 including the following: — ' On the First State of some Phycidcce ;' by J. v, Horuig. 

 The natural history of the following species is given : — 



Gymnancyla canella (a rare British species). The larvae feed, in September and 

 October, on Salsola kali, eating the stems of the plant, and living under a whitish 

 leathery web, which never contains more than one larva. 



Spermatophthora Hornigii, Led. The larva feeds, in September and October, on 

 the seed-vessels of Atriplex angusti folia. 



Homoeosoma bina;vella. The larva lives, in May and June, inside the flower- 

 heads of Carduus Acanthoides. 



Cryptoblabes Rutilella, F.-v.-R. The larva, which is very local near Vienna, lives 

 in the autumn on alder bushes, changes to pupa at the beginning of October, and 

 appears in the perfect slate the following May. 



There are also 'Descriptions of tvvo new Geometridae,' by Mann; viz., Psodos 

 alticolaria and Geometra Beryllaria. ' Dipterological Fragments;' by Dr. Schiner 

 and Dr. Egger. ' Contributions towards a Knowledge of Ants,' containing descriptions 

 of several new species, by G. L. Mayr. 'Contributions towards the Mouography of 



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