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May 4, 1863. 



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



Donations. 

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

 respective donors : — ' The Transactions of the Linnean Society of Loudon,' Vol. xxiii. 

 Part III., Vol. xxiv. Part I. ; presented by the Society. ' Bulletin de la Societe Lin- 

 neenne de Normandie,' Vols. i. — vii,, 1855 — 62 ; by the Society. ' Annales de la 

 Souiele Entomologique de France,' 3e Serie, Vol. iii.. Trim. 2 — 4, 1855; Vol. vii., 

 Trim. 1—4, 1859 ; Vol. viii.. Trim. 1—4, 1860 ; 4e Serie, Vol. i.. Trim. 1—4, 1861 ; 

 Vol. ii.. Trim. 1 — 4, 1862 ; by the Society. ' Desoriplions of Twenty New Species of 

 Australian Coleoptera belonging to the Families Cicindelidae and Cetoniidije,' ' De- 

 scriptions of Twenty New Species of Buprestidse belonging to the Genus Sligmodera, 

 from the northern parts of Australia,' by William MacLeay, jun., Esq., M.L.A. ; by 

 the Author. ' The Intellectual Observer' for May ; by the Publishers. 'The Zoolo- 

 gist' for May; by the Editor. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for April ; by 

 the Society. ' The AlhenaBum ' for April ; by the Editor. ' The Reader' for April ; 

 by the Editor. ' The w'eekly Entomologist' for 1862—3 ; by the Editor. A Col- 

 lection of upwards of 100 Volumes of Works on Bees and Bee-keeping ; deposited in 

 the Library by the Apiarian Society, on certain conditions embodied in a Minute of 

 Council dated the 6th of April, 1863. \ 



Exhibitions, ^c. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a collection of insects from the Feejee Islands, consisting 

 principally of Coleoptera, and comprising many new species ; also a collection from 

 Madagascar, sent home by Mr. Plant, containing Coleoptera and some fine Lepi- 

 doptera, conspicuous amongst which was a new Diadema ; also a collection from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, sent by Mr. Trimen ; also some spiders of enormous size from 

 Bogota ; and a single specimen of a Coleopterous insect received from Australia, 

 which appeared to be precisely identical with the British Sinodendron cylindricum, 

 and which, it was suggested, had probably in the larva state been imported into 

 Australia from this country, in wood. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited the case of a caddis-worm (a species of Limnephilus), 

 which was almost entirely composed of from 260 to 300 minute shells of a Planorbis, 

 arranged with the utmost regularity, so as to resemble a piece of mosaic. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited specimens of Biston betularius, which bad been 

 raised from eggs forwarded to him from Lancashire by Mr. Edleston. In the course 

 of last fyear Mr. Edleston had found a pair of that species in copula, one of the spe- 

 cimens being of the usual gray colour, and the other of the black variety occasionally 

 found in the North of England : the eggs forwarded were the fruit of that union, and 

 Mr. Shepherd had succeeded in breeding twelve specimens of the perfect moth; of 

 these, eight were of the normal colour, and four of the negro variety ; ten of the 

 twelve were females, and of the two males one was of the typical form and the other 

 was a negro. The whole of the larvae were fed on the same food, principally on lime 

 leaves. It was remarkable that the negro variety had never been captured in the 

 South, and that even in the North no intermediate forms had ever been met with to 

 connect and link together the light gray type and the sooty black variety. 



