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September 2, 1861. 

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



Donations. 



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

 the donors : — ' The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' vol. xxii. 

 parti; presented by the Society. ' Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung,' 1861, Nos. 

 7 — 9; by the Society, ' The ' Zoologist ' for September ; by ^^e Editor. ' Beschrij- 

 vingen en Afberldingen van Nederlandsche Olinders, bijeengebragt door Mr. S. C. 

 Snellen Van Vollenhoven, Conservator aan's Rijks-Museum voor Natumlijke Historie 

 te Leyden ; ' by the Author. ' The Journal of the Society of Arts ' for August ; by the 

 Society. ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 253 — 256 ; by the Editor, 

 H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



£Ixhibilions. 



Mr. Scott exhibited the following Hemiptera, hitherto unknown as British species, 



viz. : — 



Acetropis carinata, H.-Sch. = Lopus carinata. Found by Mr. Marshall in the New 

 Forest. 



A. seticulosa, Fieb. Also taken by Mr. Marshall in the New Forest. 



Piezostethus bicolor, Scholtz. {Xylocoris^ H.-Sch.) Taken by himself beneath bark, 

 at Abergavenny, in September last. 



Anthocoris austriacus, Hahn. Beaten from oak trees at Wickham this month. It 

 appears to be a very common species. 



The President exhibited a specimen of a large Noctua, Orodesma apicina, Guen. 

 MSS., found alive in the London Docks, on board a vessel recently arrived from 

 Porto Rico. It was, he remarked, the same species as was exhibited at a former 

 meeting of the Society by Dr. Allchin, and recorded in ' The Entomologist's Weekly 

 Intelligencer' by Messrs. Edmonds and Hodgkinsou. The only known specimens have 

 been captured in England. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited two new British species of PhryganidsB, viz., Agrypnia 

 picta, Kolen., of which a specimen was taken on Skiddaw in 1859 by Mr. T. Chapman, 

 and Leptocerus fulvus, Rambur, of which many specimens were taken during the 

 month of August at Ruislip, Middlesex, by Mr. P. C. Wormald. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited fine examples of Dicranorrhina Layardi from South Africa, 

 and a new species of Paussus from Rangoon. 



Mr. Stevens also brought for distribution amongst the members some specimens of 

 Triplax russica, lately bred from Fungi. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a fine pair of Nonagria Elymi, sent from Stettin. He 

 observed that the species had during the present season been discovered in Britain, and 

 he had exhibited two wasted indigenous examples at the previous meeting of the 

 Society. 



