emiraerating a few of the species in this box which appear to be most nearly allied lo 



the British Hemiptera, or to be identical with them : — 



Corimelaena unicolor Tingis hyalina 



„ pulicaria Reduvius personatus 



Ophthalmicus niger Nabis ferus 



Anthocoris pseudo-chinche Hebrus americanus 



Neides spinosus Gerris apierus 



Lygaeus linearis „ marginalus 



„ bioculatus Ranatra fusca 



Eurynierocoris nigritulus Corixa annexa 



Rhopalus maculigerus Aphrophora quadrinotata 



Salda laela Psylla diaphana 

 Zosmenus latus 



The American Reduvius personatus seems to be suflSciently distinct from the British 

 species to be entitled to receive a new name.'' 



May 6, 1861. 



J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented 

 to the respective donors : — ' Transactions of the Linnean Society,' Vol. xxiii. 

 Part 1 ; presented by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. xi. 

 No. 43 ; by the Zoological Society. ' Proceedings of the Society, Part 3, 1860 ; 

 by the Society. ' Observations on the Neuration of the Hind Wings of Hyme- 

 nopterous Insects, and on the Hoots which join the Fore and Hind Wings 

 together in Flight,' by Miss Staveley ; by the Author. The ' Zoologist' for 

 May ; by the Editor. ' Notes on the Generative Organs, and on the Formation of 

 the Egg, in the Annulosa,' Part 1, by John Lubbock, Esq., F.R.S. ; by the Author. 

 ' The Journal of the Society of Arts' for April ; by the Society. ' The Athenaeum' for 

 March and April ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Vol, 

 ix. and Nos. 235 to 239 inclusive ; by H. T. Staintou, Esq. 



Elections. 

 A. Murray, Esq., of Scotland Street, Edinburgh, was elected a Member ; and 

 James Arthur Laing, Esq., of Paragon Road, Blackheath, was elected a Subscriber 

 to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 

 Mr. Stevens exhibited some specimens of Saperda oculata from the Cambridge- 

 shire fens, and observed that the species had not previously been taken in this country 

 for about twenty years. He also exhibited two beautiful Cetonidae, viz., Tmesorrhina 

 Thoreyi and T. Iris, from Sierra Leone; and three fine species of Puussiis, from the 

 coast of Malabar. 



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