PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



1877. 



February 7. 



Professor Wesjwood, Al.A., F.L.S., President, iii the chair. 



Election uf a Subscriber. 

 William Deuisou Koebuck, Esq., of Leeds, Hon. Sec. uf the West Ridiug 

 Consolidated Naturalists' Society and of the Leeds Natural History Society, 

 was balloted for and elected a Subscriber. 



The President nominated Messrs. J. W. Douglas, J. W. Dunning and 

 Henry T. Stainton as Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. 



The President then delivered the Address, which he was prevented from 

 delivering at the Annual JNIeeting, on the progress of Entomology during 

 the past year, and which was ordered to be printed. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. F. Bond (on behalf of Mr. Cooke, of Brighton) exhibited another 

 specimen of the North-American butterfly, Daiiais Archippus, taken during 

 the second week of September last by Mr. Alford Wood, of New Close, 

 Keymer, Susse.x, flying over a field of clover near Hassock's Gate. This 

 was the third specimen recorded as having been taken in this country; the 

 first having been captured near Neath on the (ith September, and the second 

 near Hay ward's tleath on the 17th October, 1876, and recorded in the 

 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for October, and in 'The Entomologist' 

 for December, 1870. 



The President brought for exhibition a specimen of tlie singular butterfly 

 llhutanitis LiddenUdii , Atkinson, from Bhotan. He also read a letter 

 which he had received from Baron v. Osten-Sacken, referring to his paper 

 on the genus Si/slrojjiis, i)ublishcd in the last part uf the 'Transactions' ul' 



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