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November 4, 1861. 



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



Donatio7is. 

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

 the donors: — ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. xi.; presented by the Society. 

 'The Zoologist' for November; by the Editor. 'Notice of Blackwall's Spiders of 

 Great Britain and Ireland;' 'On the recent Geologico-Archseological Researches in 

 Denmark;' by John Lubbock, Esq., F.R.S.; by the Author, 'Journal of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. xi. No. 21 ; by the Society. 'The Journal of 

 tiie Society of Arts' for October; by the Society. 'The Athenaeum' for September 

 and October; by the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Weekly Tntelligeiicer,' Vol. x. ; 

 by H. T. Stainton, Esq. ' Catalogue Methodique des Lepidopteres d'Europe pouvant 

 elre employe coinme Etiquettes pour le Classeiuent des Collections;' by M. Dey- 

 rolle. 



Election of a Member. 



Signor Antonio de Lacerda, of Bahia, Brazil, was elected a Member of the 



Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Kirby exhibited a large number of North American Lepidoptera, and 

 remarked on the close resemblance between many of the species and those found in 

 Europe. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a female variety of Colias Edusa, destitute of the usual 

 orange spots in the dark border of the wings. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a box of insects collected in Japan by Mr. Fortune, and 

 observed it was the first collection from that country he had had the pleasure of ex- 

 hibiting ; it contained fine examples of the rare and singular Damaster Fortune!, 

 and numerous other interesting Coleoptera, as well as two apparently new species of 

 Papilio. 



Mr. Reading exhibited specimens of Leucania putrescens taken at Torquay by 

 Mr. King, and some rare Lepidoptera from South Devon, including Diasemia lite- 

 ralis, Heliothis peltigera, &c. 



Mr. Reading also exhibited varieties of Pontia Napi, Colias Edusa {var. Helice), 

 and a singular variety of Aictia villica, having the anterior wings entirely dark brown, 

 the posterior pair being of the usual colour. 



Dr. Knaggs exhibited a case of remarkable form, from Australia, believed to be 

 that of a species of Psyche. 



Mr. Miller exhibited some living larvae of a species of Incurvaria found feeding 

 on fallen leaves. 



Mr. Adam White exhibited some insects, of various orders, collected by F. M. 

 B-ayner, Esq., Surgeon of H. M.S. 'Herald,' during its voyage of exploration in the 

 South Seas. He especially noticed some from Aneiteum, New Hebrides, such as that 

 interesting Longicorn, Psalidocoptus scaber. He showed other Longicorns from these 

 islands, and the Pyrrha Wollastoni, from Lord Howe's Island, close to the genus 

 Deucalion of Wollaston ; Elytruri ; Phasmidae, such as Eurycantha australis, with its 

 strange thickened hind femora and somewhat mole-cricket aspect, suggested ideas of 

 analogy, now, since W. Sharpe Macleay had ceased to write, unfortunately little heeded 



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