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Ordinary Meeting. 



The Ordinary Meeting of the Society was held the same day. 



Donations. 

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

 respective donors: — ' Classification of the Coleoptera of North America,' Part 1, by John 

 L. Leconte, M.D. ; ' Monograph of theDiptera of North America,' Part 1, by H.Loew; 

 ' Synopsis of the Described Lepidoptera of North America,' Part 1 (Diurnal and Cre- 

 puscular Lepidoptera),by John G. Morris ; 'Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America, 

 with a List of the South-American Species,' by Herman Hagen ; all compiled for and 

 presented by the Smithsonian Institute. ' Proceedings of the Entomological Society of 

 Philadelphia' for 1861 and 1862; by the Society. ' Notes on the Thysanura,' Part 1 

 (Sminthuridse) ; by the Author, John Lubbock, F.E.S., &c. ' Proceedings of the Lite- 

 rary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool during the Filty-first Session, 1861 — 62,' 

 No. xvi. ; by the Society. ' The Zoologist ' for December ; by the Editor. ' On the 

 Genus Colias in North America ;' by the Author, Samuel H. Scudder. Taylor's 

 ' Calendar of the Meetings of the Scientific Bodies of London for 1862 — 63 ;' by the 

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

 'Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift,' Band I — V ; by Julius Lederer. ' Die Noc- 

 tuinen Europa's mit Zuzichung einiger bisher racist dazu gezahlten Arlen des Asiat- 

 ischen Russland's, Kleinasien's, Syrien's uud Labrador's : systematisch bearbeitet von 

 Julius Lederer;' by the Author. 



New Members. 



Percy C. Wormald, Esq., of 6, Brondesbury Terrace, Kilburn, was ballotted for and 

 elected a Member of the Society. 



Certificates in favour of F. Moore, Esq. (a Subscriber to the Society), and of E. A. 

 Smith, Esq., of 27, Richmond Crescent, Islington, as Members, were read for the first 

 time, and ordered to be suspended in the Meeting Room. 



Exhibitions, ^c. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a fine collection of Coleoptera and Diurnal Lepidoptera, 

 collected by Mr. A. E. Wallace in New Guinea and the adjacent island of Salwatty. 



Mr. F. Moore exhibited specimens of a white saccharine substance or kind of 

 " manna," which is found abundantly on the leaves of certain Eucalypti (E. dumosa, 

 &c.), in the north-west parts of Australia Felix, and is eaten by the natives, who call 

 it " lerp " or " laap." This substance is stated by Mr. T. Dobson (Proc. Royal Society 

 of Van Dieman's Land, 1851) to be the cup-like coverings of a species of Psylla (P. 

 Eucalypti), formed by the insect whilst in the larva state. 



Mr. Hewitson sent for exhibition some stems of laurel trees, with the following 

 note in reference thereto : — 



" In cutting down some laurels, at some four or five feet from the ground, I noticed 

 that they were pierced longitudinally by a round hole about the size of a pistol-bullet, 

 at first open and clear, afterwards filled with sawdust, but so loose that it was easily 

 pushed out for the length of a foot with a very slender stick ; but in cutting sections 



