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with an obtuse tooth on the inner side. About half the bulk of the medium-sized 

 specimens of Tychius picirostris. Most closely resembles the preceding species, from 

 which it can scarcely be said to differ, excepting in its very small size, and the com- 

 paratively short antennae ; the scape is relatively shorter and more clavate ; and the 

 separate joints of the funiculus are decidedly shorter when corresponding joints are 

 compared. I have seen but three specimens of this insect ; one specihien I found at 

 Hawkhurst, in Kent, in the month of April, 1860 ; a second I took at Gravesend, in 

 the following year, in the month of May ; and the third is in Mr, S. Stevens' collec- 

 tion : they all have an obtuse tooth on the inner side of the anterior tibi®. 



June 2, 1862. 

 Frederick Smith, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Election of Member of Council. 



The Secretary read the notice summoning the members to a Special General 

 Meeting, for the purpose,of electing a member of Council in the place of Dr. Knaggs, 

 resigned ; and the Meeting having been made a Special General Meeting, the Presi- 

 dent appointed Messrs. Baly and Wilkinson to act as Scrutineers ; a ballot was taken, 

 and H. T. Stainton, Esq., was unanimously elected a member of the Council of the 

 Society. 



Election of Members. 



The Meeting having resumed as an Ordinary Meeting, W. H. L. Walcott, Esq., 

 and David Sharp, Esq., were severally ballotted for and elected Members of the 

 Society. 



Donations. 



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

 donors : — ' Memoir of the Eev. John Stevens Henslow, M.A., F.L.S , F.G.S., 

 F.C.P.S., late Rector of Hitcham, and Professor of Botany in the University of Cam- 

 bridge,' by the Eev. Leonard Jenyns, M.A., F.L.S. , F.G.S., F.C.P.S. ; presented by 

 the Author. ' Schriften der Koniglichen Physikalisch-okonomischen Gesellschaft zu 

 Konigsberg, Zweiter Jahrgang, 1861, Erste und Zweite Abtheilung' ; by the Society. 

 ' The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, and Proceedings of the Natural-History 

 Society of Montreal, conducted by a Committee of the Natural-History Society,' Vol. 

 vii. No. 2 ; by the Society. ' The Zoologist ' for June ; by the Editor. ' The Journal 

 of the Society of Arts' for May ; by the Society. ' The London Review' for May ; by 

 the Editor. ' Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. vi. No. 23 ; 

 by the Society. 



The addition to the Library, by purchase, of Jacquelin Du Val's ' Genera des Co- 

 leopteres d'Europe' was also announced. 



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