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unrecorded as British, which he hud detected in the collection of the late Mr. Hey- 

 sham, of Carlisle. 



Mr. Waterhouse also coram iinicated some notes on the British species of the 

 genus Gyrophasna, including two species not yet indicated as indigenous, viz, 

 G.lsBvipennis, Krauiz, and G. maura, Erich.: he stated that both these species appear 

 to be not uncommon in this country, and Mr. Janson observed that he also had 

 recently recognised them in his own indigenous colleclion. 



Dr. Wallace read a letter from Captain W. T. Russell, of Monk's Sleigh, Bil- 

 desion, Suffolk, in which the writer stated, with reference to the specimens of Papilio 

 Podalirius in a colleclion in Suffolk, said to have been captured at Sevenoaks, as 

 mentioned by Dr. Wallace at the October meeting of this Society, that the said speci- 

 mens were certainly taken at Sevenoaks by him (Captain Russell), but in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of the residence of a lady who had a day or two previously set at liberty 

 a number of specimens of this butterfly, which she had bred from pupee imported from 

 the Continent; there could of course be no doubt that those captured by him were 

 part of the imported brood. Captain Russell also detailed with much minuteness the 

 circumstances attending the capture of several specimens of Callimorpba Hera and 

 one of Eulepia grammica on a precipitous bank near Wrexham, North Wales, on the 

 27th of July, 18/59: one of the examples of C. Hera is now contained in the indi- 

 genous collection at the British Museum. 



Mr. F. Walker communicated descriptions of Exotic Lepidoptera contained in the 

 collections of W. W. Saunders and A. Fry, Esqrs. 



The Secretary called attention to a specimen copy of the first part of Mr. Trimen's 

 new work on the Rhopalocera of Southern Africa, which was on the table, to which he 

 should be happy to receive the names of subscribers. 



The Secretary also read some descriptions of South-African Lepidoptera by 

 Mr. R. Trimen, including species pertaining to the families Satyridae, Lycsenidse and 

 Hesperidae. 



The President announced that the Council had, in compliance with the almost 

 unanimous wish of the Members of the Society, resolved to alter the hour of meeting 

 from eight to seven o'clock j and that in future the chair of the monthly meetings 

 would be taken at the latter hour. 



January 6, 1862. 



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



Donations. 

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

 donors: — ' Nouveaux Memoires delaSocietie Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 

 Tome xiii. Liv. II.: ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 

 I860, Nos. 2, 3 and 4 ; presented by the Society. ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part 41 ; by 

 W. W. Saunders, Esq. 'Sitzungsberichte der Konigl bayer. Akademie der Wissen- 

 schaften zu Miinchen,' 1861, I. Heft IV. ; by the Academy.] 'The Zoologist' for 

 January, 1862; by the Editor. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for December; 

 by the Editor. 'The Athenseum ' for November and December; by the Editor. 

 ' Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis Physico-Chemica et Mathematica,' Vol. ix. ; by the 



