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December 3, 1855. 

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



Donaiiofis. 



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

 donors: — 'The Zoologist' for December; by the Editor. ' Entomologische 

 Zeitung' for November; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' Ueber die 

 Micropyle und den feinern Ban der Schalenhaut bei den Insekteueiern ; ' by the 

 Author, Prof. Rud. Leuckart, in Giessen. ' On the Illumination of the Diatomaceae, 

 when viewed under the Microscope ;' by the Author, Thomas Sansom, A.L.S., &c. 

 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for November; by the Society. 'The Literary 

 Gazette' for November; by the Editor. 'The Athenaeum' for November; by the 

 Editor. 



Election of Members. 



Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, Esq., Bloxworth House, near Blandford, Dorset, 

 was elected a Member of, and 11. B. Were, Esq., 35, Osborne Terrace, Clapham Road, 

 and Horace Francis, Esq., 38, Upper Bedford Place, Russell Square, were elected 

 Subscribers to, the Society. 



/- Exhibitions. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited a beautiful pair of Trochilium Scoliseformis, 

 Borkhuusen, taken with other specimens by Mr. Ashworth, at Bryn Hyfryd, near 

 Llangollen, in North Wales. This insect has just been described for the first time as 

 British in the December number of the 'Zoologist,' p. 4928, by Mr. Newman. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a few drawings of the larvaB and pupje of some of the 

 Lepidoptera of Port Natal, made there by Mr. R. W. Plant; also perfect insects of 

 some of the species, whose early states were figured. 



The President exhibited some drawings of insects made by himself, and made the 

 following communications respecting them : — 



" 1st. A very pretty variety of Vanessa Urtica;, given to me by F. Trenchard, Esq. 

 The specimen was taken by himself ' near the entrance-gate in Bishop's Wood, 

 Hampstead, July 21st, 1838.' 



" 2nd. A drawing of a caterpillar which I made when at school, and first noticed 

 in the second edition of my ' British Entomology.' It seems to be the larva of Sphinx 

 Celerio, yet it does not accord with any drawing or engraving I have seen: it is of an 

 obscure flesh-colour, with a large round black spot on each side of the first abdominal 

 segment, with four minute white dots on each, and the outer edges forming two straw- 

 coloured luuules ; behind each, on the second segment, is a smaller oval yellowish- 

 white spot. The following memorandum was made at the time : — ' Two of these 

 caterpillars, from one of which this drawing was taken, were found in the arms of an 

 old garden-chair, in a garden near Bishop's Bridge, Norwich : they began to spin up 

 amongst some leaves in a pot on the 8th of October, 1810: they fed on the Persian 

 willow {Epilobium amjustifolinni). In the other specimen there were five minute dots 



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