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April 6, 1863. 



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



, Donations. 



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

 the respective donors : — ' Proceedings of ihe Royal Society,' Vol. xii. No. 54 ; presented 

 by the Royal Society. 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' 

 Vol. vii. No. 25 ; by the Society. ' The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England,' Vol. xxiv. Part. 1 ; by the Society. 'The Entomologist;' by James 

 Bladon, Esq. 'Exotic. Butterflies,' Part 46; by W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. 

 'The Zoologist' for April; by the Editor. 'The Intellectual Observer,' No. 15; 

 by Messrs. Groombridge & Sons. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for Murch ; 

 by the Society. 'The Athenaeum' for March; by the Editor. 'The Reader' for 

 March ; by the Editor. ' On the Composition of the Head, and on the Number of 

 Abdominal Segments, in Insects ; ' by the Author, Dr. H. Schaum. ' Latreille, 

 Families Naturelles du Regne Animal;' by F. P. Pascoe, Esq. 



Election of Honorary Members. 

 Professor Lacordaire, of Liege, Dr. Leconte, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Hagen, of 

 Konigsberg, were severally ballolted for and elected Honorary Members. 



Exhibitions, ^c. 



Sir John Hearsey exhibited a box of Indian Lepidoptera, all having ocelli on their 

 wings. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a specimen of a new British species of Aleochara, from 

 the collection of Mr. Jeakes ; it was in all probability captured by Mr. Squire, but 

 there was no note of its locality, further than that the specimen was a British one. 

 The insect was as large as a middle-sized A. moesta, and was most remarkable for the 

 unusually long terminal joint of the antennae, this joint being equal to the three pre- 

 ceding joints taken together. It was glossy black, and rather densely clothed with 

 very pale ash-coloured pubescence, especially on the thorax and elytra ; the legs, palpi 

 and basal joints of the antennae were pitchy, the terminal joint of the palpi and the 

 tarsi testaceous. The head presented very fine and scattered punctures. The antennee 

 were longer and less stout than usual; the second and third joints considerably 

 elongated, the third being a trifle longer than the second; the fourth joint fully as 

 long as broad ; from the fifth to the tenth joints there was no perceptible increase in 

 the width, but those joints gradually became shorter, the tenth joint was, however, 

 but slightly transverse ; the much-elongated terminal joint was cylindrical, with the 

 apex rounded. The thorax was finely but not very thickly punctured, and presented 

 two or three delicate setae at the sides. The elytra taken together were more than one- 

 third broader than long, slightly tinted with piceous behind, thickly punctured and 

 faintly rugulose on the inner side. The abdomen had the transverse grooves on the basal 

 segments strongly and thickly punctured, and on the apical half of those segments, as 

 well as on the terminal segments, were finer scattered punctures: the penultimate 

 segment had the hitider margin rather indistinctly emarginate in the middle, and was 



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