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de Carabiques, de la Tribu des Carabides;' 'Description de Seize Especes de Longi- 

 corns du vieux Calabar, a la cote occidentale d'Afrique;' ' Description de Vingt et 

 vine Especes Nouvelles de Coleopteres Longicorns;' all by tbe Author, Mons. A. 

 Cbevrolat. Twenty species of British Lepidoptera; by F. Bond, Esq. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Foxcroft sent from Perthshire some of his captures of Coleoptera, consisting 

 chiefly of Brachelytra. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited Elachista Brunnichiella bred from larvae mining leaves of 

 Clinopodium vulgare; Lilhocolletis comparella, reared from a leaf of Lombardy 

 Poplar, from Mickleham ; and a pair of Gelechia maculiferella, taken in cop. on a 

 window of his house at Lee. 



Mr. Waring exhibited some remarkable varieties of Boarmia repandaria, Tephrosia 

 crepuscularia and Auticlea rubidata ; all from the neighbourhood of Coomb Hurst, 

 Croydon. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited a specimen of Leucania musculosa (L. nervosa, 

 Hatv.), captured near Brighton by Mr. J. N. Winter. 



Mr. Westwood said that during a recent visit to Plymouth he had captured Aepus 

 marinus on the shore ; and under some sea-weed he saw, but could not catch, a 

 minute Dipteron, which he had little doubt belonged to the genus Clunio. 



Mr. Westwood called the attention of the meeting to three new works by Dr. Bur- 

 meister, which he had just received. The first, intituled ' Uebersicht der Brasilian- 

 ischen Mutilleu,' a monograph of the Mutillidse, would include, besides the species 

 described by Dr. Klug in the ' Nova Acta,' all those discovered by Dr. Burmeister 

 himself in Brazil. The second, ' Untersuchung iiber die Fliigeltypen der Coleopteren,' 

 treated of the venation of the wings in Coleoptera, an Order hitherto very partially 

 investigated in this respect. The third, ' Kritische Bemerkungen iiber M. S. Merian's 

 Metamorphoses Insectorum Surinamensuim,' which would be enriched in its progress 

 by the author's researches into the natural history of insects made during his residence 

 in Brazil. 



The President said that during a recent tour on the Continent he had learned 

 that the third volume of Professor Lacordaire's 'Suites a Buffon' was nearly ready; 

 also that M. Candeze had collected a large amount of material for his monograph on 

 the Elateridae, and still hoped to receive from English entomologists the assistance he 

 had asked, and that they were so well able to afford. 



Mr. Haliday, at the request of the President, gave some account of the matters of 

 entomological interest that had come under his notice during the Continental tour he 

 had recently made in his company. That which had especially attracted his attention 

 was an adaptation of a microscope to a camera obscura by Herr Weinnertz, of 

 Crefeld, whereby the image of an object was thrown upwards on to a horizontal 

 surface of glass, and a drawing on tracing-paper was made with great facility. 

 For copying the venation of wings it was especially useful, and had been extensively 

 employed by Herr Weinnertz ; Mr, Haliday esteemed it a preferable and far more easy 

 method than the camera lucida. 



