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December 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 : — ' Notice of some North-American Species of Pieris,' by Samuel Scudder, 

 from the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, September, 1861; 

 presented by the Author. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for November; by 

 the Society. 'The Zoologist' for December; by the Editor. ' Stettiuer Entomolo- 

 gische Zeilung,' 1861, Nos. 10 — 12; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Election of Subscribers. 

 James Fenn, Esq., of Clyde Villa, Lee; Charles Fenn, Esq., Clyde Villa, Lee; 

 and Frank O. Kuspini, Esq., 85, Oakley Street, Chelsea, were balloted for and elected 

 Subscribers to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr, Stevens exhibited a box of splendid Lepidoptera, sent by Mr. Wallace from 

 Mysol, near New Guinea: the species were vei'y similar to those previously sent home 

 by Mr. Wallace from New Guinea and other adjoining islands. Mr. Stevens an- 

 nounced that Mr. Wallace was now at Batavia, and would probably return to England 

 in the spring of/ next year. 



Mr. Barnaud exhibited an extensive series of Coleoptera from Smyrna. 



Mr. Machin exhibited specimens ol a Geiechia, and also of a Tinea, which he was 

 untible to refer to any known British species ; and an example of -^thia emortualis, 

 W. v., taken near Loughton, in Essex: this species has been erroneously recorded as 

 a native of Britain by Haworth and subsequent authors; but the only authentic indi- 

 genous example known, with the exception of the one now exhibited, was captured by 

 the Rev. H. Birks, of Henley-on-Thames. 



Mr. D'Uiban exhibited a large collection of South African Lepidoptera, including 

 several new species of the genus Acraea, &c. 



Mr. Adam White exhibited drawings, by Mr. Robinson, of a species of Mantispa, 

 bred in some numbers from a nest of Polybia scutellaris, Saussure (Myrapelra scutel- 

 laris. White), a wasp said to collect honey; this fine nest was brought from Monte 

 Video : of the economy of the Mantispa nothing is yet known. 



Mr. White called attention to a remarkable beetle of the family Buprestidse in the 

 collection of Mr. Jeakes: it is near Anthraxia, having the epistome projecting and 

 developed into two marked horns — a character quite novel in this family of Coleoptera. 

 Length about 2^ lines. For the reception of this insect, which is from Santarem, 

 Mr. White proposed to found a new genus, and dedicate it to the gentleman in whose 

 collection it is contained. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Adelops Wollastoni, Janson, found by 

 Mr. John Stevens, under dead leaves in a market garden at Hammersmith. 



Professor Westwood observed that Hammersmith appeared to be a far richer ento- 

 mological locality than the neighbourhood of Oxford ; since his removal from the 

 former to the latter place he had captured very few insects. 



Mr. Waterhousc exhibited a speciuieu of Ischnoglossa corlicina, a species hitherto 



