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William Stimpson, Zoolojjist to the U. S. Surveying Expedition to the North Pacific, 

 Japan Seas, &c., Lieut. John Rogers, Commander; all presented by the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 'Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History,' conclusion of 

 Vol. iv., and sheets 1 to 11 inclusive of Vol. v. ; by the Society. ' Proceedings of ihe 

 New Orleans Academy of Sciences,' Vol.i., No. 1 ; ' Constitution and By-Laws of the 

 New Orleans Academy of Sciences;' by the Society. 'Patent Office Report — Agri- 

 culture;' by the United States Patent Office. 'Ninth Annual Report of the Board of 

 Agriculture of the State of Ohio;' by the Ohio State Board of Agriculture. 'The 

 Natural History of the Tineina,' Vol. i. ; by the Editor, H. T. Stainton, Esq. ' Pro- 

 ceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. vii. No. 15; by the Society. 'The Zoologist' for 

 November; by the Editor. ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1855, Nos. 8 and 9; by 

 the Editor, M F. E. Guerin-Meneville. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for 

 October ; by the Society. ' The Athenaeum ' for October ; by the Editor. ' The 

 Literary Gazette' for October; by the Editor. ' Entomologische Zeitung' for 

 September and October; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Exhibilions. 



Mr. Stajnton exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Winter, a specimen of Phlogophora 

 empyrea, a Noctua new to Britain, recently taken by him at sugar near Brighton ; also 

 some extraordinary varieties of Agrotis segelum and A. exclamutionis. Mr. Winter 

 also sent for exhibition a fine female specimen of Ennomos Alniaria, taken on a lamp 

 at Brighton : the only other authentic British specinren of this species hitherto known 

 was taken on the North Foreland Lighthouse several years since, and is now in 

 Mr. Shepherd's collection. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Henry Cooke, a specimen of Polyommatus 

 Agestis, which closely approached the Scotch specimens known as P. Artaxerxes, the 

 pupils to the ocelli on the under side being obsolete. 



Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited a new British Tortrix, recently taken at Hayling 

 Island, near Havant; also specimens of Goniodoma auroguttella, F.-v.- R., taken by 

 him in August last, in the Isle of Wight ; and a specimen of Dictyopteryx uliginosana. 

 Bent., from Ely, Cambridgeshire : the only two specimens of this last species hitherto 

 known were taken near Yaxley many years since, and are now in Mr. Shepherd's 

 collection. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a specimen of the rare Quedius dilatatus, found in a hive 

 of the honey-bee, and also the net-work cocoons of Hypera rumicis; both com- 

 municated by Professor Henslow. The President remarked that M. Gory had 

 informed him that he once took a number of the Quedius in Fontainebleau Forest, 

 in the neighbourhood of a hornet's nest. Mr. Stevens said that a specimen had 

 recently been taken by Mr. Turner in the New Forest, in the decaying carcase of a 

 heifer. Mr. Waterhouse observed that M. Chevrolat had informed him that he found 

 this species at night on trees infested with the larva of Cossus ; and Captain Parry 

 once found a specimen in his own garden under the loose bark of a tree so infested. 



Mr. Foxcroft brought for exhibition a large collection of Lepidoptera and 

 Coleoptera, taken by him during the past season in Scotland. 



Mr. Syme exhibited specimens of the rare Sphasrites glabratus, taken by him from 

 fungi at Kincardine. 



Mr. Stevens stated that, on his recent visit to Paris, he found a preparation of 

 naphtha very successfully applied to removing grease from insects: he had, since his 



