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accompanied by drawings illustrating the metamorphosis. He also read 

 Notes on the Genus Prosopistoma, especially with regard to the species 

 from Madagascar described by Latreille, of which he exhibited the types. 



Mr. Cameron communicated a paper on East Indian TenthredinidcB ; and 

 Mr. Butler a paper on the Lepidoptera of the Amazon Valley, collected by 

 Dr. Trail in the years 1873—75. 



Mr. Baly communicated " Descriptions of new Species of HalticidcB," and 

 Mr. CO. Waterhouse, " A Monograph of the Australian Species of the 

 Coleopterous Family Lycidee." 



Mr. Frederick Smith read " Descriptions of new Species of the Genera 

 Pseudoinyrma and Tetraponera belonging to the Family Myrmicidm. 



May 2, 1877. 

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



Election of Members. 

 Messrs. H. J. Adams, Charlestrom Adams (Chase Park, Enfield), and 

 J. W. Slater (2, Tarn worth Terrace, Hornsey Road) were balloted for and 

 elected Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions. . 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a large silken cocoon from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, supposed to be a spiders nest. On being opened it was found to 

 contain, among other debris, a number of skins of small spiders and remains 

 of the elytra of a beetle of the genus Moluris. Mr. Weir also exhibited a 

 spider's nest from Montserrat. 



Mr. F. Grut exhibited a large species of Chelifer from North Spain. 



Sir Sidney Saunders exhibited a spider, Atypus sidzeri, taken on Hamp- 

 stead Heath ; it was found inhabiting tubes concealed under bushes in 

 hedges. These tubes project about four inches above the ground and 

 extend about ten inches beneath the surface. Mr. Jenner Weir remarked 

 that he had observed the same or an allied species on the South Downs. 



Mr. Champion exhibited a series oi Alaus Pareyssi from Thaso Island. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited sjDecimeus oi Dohrnia miranda (Newm.), 

 a Heteromerous beetle from Tasmania ; also Creophilus erythrocephalus and 

 Forjicula erythrocepliala from the same region, these two last insects 

 having some resemblance to each other. Mr. Bates suggested that the 

 resemblance might possibly be accounted for by the two insects mimicking 

 some other species. 



