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the year and in the same locality. Mr. Goss stated that according to his 

 experience these dwarf specimens did not occur in the same proportion in 

 other parts of the country where the species was taken. The specimens he 

 had obtained in Devonshire and Northamptonshire were, as a rule, of the 

 ■ average size. 



The Secretary stated that the Longicoru beetle exhibited at the last 

 meeting, which had been sent from Birkenhead by Mr. David Henderson, 

 had been identified by Mr, C. O. Waterhouse as Monohammus titillatus 

 (Fab.), a species inhabiting the United States. 



Papers read. 



'• On Notiothaum'a Reedi, a remarkable new Genus and Species of 

 Neuroptera from Chili, pertaining to the Family Pauorjnda;," by 

 R. M'Lachlan, F.R.S., &c. 



" On the Lepidoptera of the Family Lithosiidce in the Collection of the 

 British Museum," by Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



November 7th, 1877. 



Professor J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors. 



Exhibitions, Sc. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited ten of the thirteen species of Lepidoptera 

 collected by Captain Feilden and ]\fr. Hart in Grinneli Land, between tlie 

 parallels of 78° and 83° N. lat., during the recent Arctic Expedition. They 

 consisted of Colias Hecla, Lef., var. ; Argijnnis j^olaris, Bdv. ; A. Char idea, 

 Sclind., many vars. ; Chrysoi)hanus 2>hlaias, Linn., var. ; Lycccna Aquilo, 

 Bdv.; Dasychira Groenlandica, Wocke ; Mamestra? i-\. s^. ; Flusia parilis, 

 Hiibn. ; Psycophora Sahini, Curt. ; and Scoparia, n. sp. He entered into 

 some details respecting the insects generally of this high northern region 

 and their habits, in anticipation of his extended Report to be read at the 

 next meeting of the Linneau Society. 



The Rev. A. E. Eaton remarked, with regard to Arctic insects, that he 

 was disposed to consider that their transformations may sometimes be 

 protracted through two or more summers. He adduced some apparently 

 analogous phases in respect of plant life in Spitzbergen, where he had 

 noticed, in June, plants seemingly upon the point of flowering, which had 

 evidently remained in that state under the snow since the previous autumn. 

 He said that in tlie islands rei'ened to iusectk; are not altogetlier indifferent 



