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Trustees of the British Museum, to the Principal Librarian, and also to J. Aspinall 

 Turner, Esq., M.P." 



This was seconded by Mr. S. Stevens, and carried unaniniously. 



August 3, 1863. 

 F. P. Pascoe, Esq., V.P, in the chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the respective donors: 

 — ' Bulletin de la Sociele Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' Annee 1862, No. 1 ; 

 presented by the Society. Five quarto Tracts on Fossil Insects, &c.,by H. A. Hagen, 

 C. von Heyden, H. von Meyer and H. Kaihke ; Ten Numbers of the ' Neue Preus- 

 sische Provinzial-Blalter' for various years, containing articles on Entonoology ; Six 

 octavo Tracts on Neuroptera, &c., by Dr. H. A. Hagen ; Five octavo Tracts on Neu- 

 roptera, &c., by F. Brauer; Three octavo Tracts on Coleoptera, Myriapoda, &c., by 

 Professor E. von Siebold ; Two octavo Tracts by Victor Motschulsky; One octavo 

 Tract, by Franz Loew ; Ten octavo Tracts, by Mons. E. de Selys Longchamps ; One 

 octavo Tract (' Separalabdruck naturwissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen aus der Schriften 

 des Zoologisch-Bolanischen Vereins in Wien ') ; presented by Dr. H. A. Hagen. ' The 

 Intellectual Observer,' No. 19; by Messrs. Groombridge and Sons. ' The Zoologist' 

 for August; by the Editor. ' The Aihenasum ' for July ; by the Editor. 'TheReader' 

 for July; by the Editor. ' The Journal of the Society of Arts' for July ; by the Society, 

 ' Zwolf Amerikanische Nachifaller ; Chilonidarum et Crambidarum Genera et Species ;' 

 by the Author, Professor P. C. Zeller. ' Slettiner Entornologische Zeitung,' 1863, 

 Nos. 7 — 9; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. Tlie following addition to the 

 Library, by purchase, was also announced: — 'Auguste Vinson, Araneides des lies de 

 la Reunion, Maurice et Madagascar.' 



Exhibitions, ^c. 



The Secretary, referring to the exhibition, at the July meeting, of some white silky 

 matter probably caused by lepidopterous larvae, said that he bad received another com- 

 munication- from Mr. Thomson, enclosing specimens of the moth which flew out of the 

 bin when the chicory was disturbed. These proved to be Ephestia elutella ; but it was 

 thought improbable by the lepidopterists present that the silky web was the product of 

 that species. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark exhibited the water-beetles captured by Mr. F. G. Water- 

 house during his recent journey of exploration with Stuart across the Australian con- 

 tinent. There were two species of Cybister, both new, but allied to northern forms ; 

 three of Hydaticus, of which one was a dark variety of a Moreton Bay species, one 

 was common in the North, and the third was new ; two of Colymbetes, both new ; one 

 of Agabus, new ; two of Copelatus, of which one occurred in Lizard's Island and the 



