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this blanch of ciitoinolofricul soicnoo hefon; tlicy leave l)otn(>, as [ am satisCicd llial a 

 .skilled Micro-liepidopterisl in nnexplored r('i;i(nis would, willi the jfreatesl facility, 

 ohiaiii ii()veUi(;s williout end, and wonld also l)e al/le to observe the haldts and trans- 

 (brnnilions of the greater purl ol his discoveries, so that he would at ouoe add to onr 

 knowlcdj^e as well as (o our collrclions." 



TIm; President, donlitcd if Alicro-I-epidoptera \v<Mild be found so jilcntifiil in tropical 

 countries as Mr. Stainton anli(i|)at('d ; for, even in the South of Mnrope, throui;h vvliich, 

 in conijiany with Mr. Witlkcr, lie made a tour some years a<.fo, a!tbouj;h they collecled 

 diligently, and sought esjiecially for Micro-I,epidoptora in jilaces similar to those; in 

 which they were plentiful in Mngland, yet, out of more than six thousand sj)ei!iniens (d" 

 insects ihey brought home, tin; number (tf small moths was very few. If .Micro's were 

 abundant in tin; tropics we sboubl surely liave had more (d' them sent to us. 



Mr. Saunders said that when lie was in India he gave very liille attention to the 

 small licpidopteia ; Imt he saw tlm mines of their larva- in leaves, and he remembered 

 tliat many htih.II moths used to come to the lights at night. 



S)ii(i// Colcoptrra in llic '/'ropics. 



Mr. Waterhoiise said il used to Ix; tluMiglit that tropical countries ])rodn(U'd Ijiit 

 few Miero-(^)leoptcra ; but this was an error, for j\Ir. Darwin hail brought from South 

 America great ([uantities of minute beetles, eolleeled chiefly just after the rainy 

 season. 



Mr. VVestwood said llelfcrhad collected in India thirty species of Antbiens, besides 

 many other small beetles, now in the collection at I'rague. 



Mr. IJaly .saiil Mr. Fry had in his possession a drawer-lull of minule Staphyliiiida; 

 from IJia/.il. 



' On llir h'.iiliitnitstrncii nf South Aiiirriva.' 



Ihidcr this title Mr. Lubbock read a dc-criptive paper, accomi)anied by draAviugs 

 of the species. 



A iirir Sjircici of Af/f<ilis. 



Head the; following descriplion, by .Mr. ili'iiry Doiibh-day, of a new s|>ecies ol 

 Agrolis taken in liiitniii: — 



".AoHoiis Asiiwouriiii. Alls unticis riiirnis, strii/is frihiis (Itiiliriiliitis titris, 

 miinilf) (jitailiola iitijra iulcr sfi()iii(il(i, jxistiris /V/.s-c/.v. (I'lxp. alar. I niic. 

 .0— H lin.) 



"Anlirior wings cinereous, powdered with black* atoms, with three «leiilieiilat<'d 

 strigui arising from black spots on the costa ; one near the base, a second before, and 

 a third beyond the miildle of the wing. I'.etwccn the stigmata (which ai(! very in- 

 distinct) is a (luadrate black spot, and another between the anterior stigma and the 

 second striga ; a fuscous cloud (irosses the centre of the wing as in THiiioeampa 

 populcti, 'J\ iiistaliilis, \e. ; cilia fuscous. Posterior wings fuscous in both sexes, 

 with the cilia paler; head whitish; thorax eincrcoiis ; abdomen pale fuscous ; au- 

 teinne fuscous, white towards the base. 

 ^ "This jiittlv species, which appears to be ([nile unkuDwu upon the ('outinenl, was 



