IV 



March 7, 1877. 

 J. W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a specimen of the Longicorn, Monohammus siUor, 

 brought to him alive, having been captured in a garden in the Camden 

 Road. Also a melanic variety of Ort.hosia suspecta, taken at Dunkeld. 



Mr. Hudd exhibited varieties of British Lepidoptera taken near Bristol 

 and in South Wales. Amongst them were Sphinx ligustri, Lycmna Alexis, 

 and Boarmia repandata, the latter a black variety. 



Mr. Champion exhibited specimens of Carcliophorus rujipes, a species 

 new to Britain, taken by Mr. J. Dunsmore near Paislej' ; also a British 

 example of Aphodius scrofa, from the collection of Mr. Dunsmore, who 

 unfortunately had no note of its locality. 



The Secretary exhibited a specimen of an Isopod Crustacean, which 

 had been forwarded to him by Mr. J. M. Wills, Surgeon S.S. ' City of 

 Canterbury,' who stated that it was found occasionally parasitic on the 

 flying fish, and generally close to the pectoral fins. 



Mr. Douglas read the following extract from a letter received from 

 Dr. Sahlberg from Helsingfors : — 



" As you have already heard, I went on an entomological excursion to 

 Yenisei. My plan was to meet Professor Nordenskjold at the mouth of the 

 river, and to return per steamer over the Kara Sea. I did not suc- 

 ceed, and therefore had to travel back through Siberia ; still I have 

 brought a mass of insects with me from the extreme north of Siberia, 

 especially Coleoptera and Hemiptera, and now I am busy getting them into 

 .order. The insect fauna of Arctic Siberia agrees with that of Lapland, and 

 I had the pleasure to find several species which I had formerly discovered 

 in the north of my own country ; for example, among Hemiptera, Platyp- 

 sallus acanthioides and Bathysmatophorus Reuteri, the last being the most 

 frequent of the Cicadaria in the district. In the neighbourhood of the 

 River Yenisei, in places which are yearly flooded there were to be found 

 many species strange to Europe, but not very many new. 



"I have just looked through my Siberian collection of Hemiptera- 

 Heteroptera, and as most of these were collected in the extreme north, the 

 lot is rather poor, and consists of less than one hundred species, of which 

 fourteen were new — viz., one Aradus, one Calocoris, two Orthotylm, one 

 Orthops, one Pachytoma, one Anthoeoris, one Acompocoris, five Salda, one 

 Corixa. I am interested most in the Salda species, which were large and 



