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Garflen,' Vol iii. Nos. 35, 36, 38—41 ; by C. A. Wilson, Esq. ' The Journal of the 

 Society of Arts ' for November ; by the Society. ' The Athenaeum ' for November ; by 

 the Editor. ' The Reader ' for November ; by the Editor. ' Slettiner Entomologische 

 Zeilung,' 24 Jahrg. Nos. 10 — 12 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Election of Member. 

 George Bryant, Esq., of the India Office, Victoria Street, Westminster, was bal- 

 lotted for, and elected a Member of the Society. 



Alteration of the Bye-Laws. 

 Notice was given that a Special General Meeting would be held on Monday, the 

 25th of January, 1864, at 7 p. M., for the consideration of certain proposed alterations 

 of the bye-laws. 



Exhibitions, ^e, 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a large box of Coleoptera collected by the Rev. Mr. Gerard 

 in the Zulu Country ; and a specimen of Polyommatus, taken in the Isle of Wight, 

 which appeared to be intermediate between P. Adonis and P. Alexis. 



Sir John Hearsey exhibited some Indian Lepidoptera, principally NoctuidaB and 

 Geometridae. 



Mr. W. W. Saundei's called attention to the injury done to an Orchid by one of 

 the CiraicidaB : the Orchid was a Cataselum, which had been imported from Brazil 

 about eighteen months before ; the bug was a Bryocoris, probably also an importation, 

 but Mr. Saunders was inclined to think that it had come from Hayti, from which 

 locality he had, only two months ago, received a collection of Orchids, among which 

 a species of ant (Formica herculanea ?) had been found. The Bryocoris, when dis- 

 turbed, exhibited extreme activity, and destroyed the plant in a manner similar to 

 Thrips. 



Professor Westwood produced a MS. entomological journal of the late John Curtis, 

 being a volume containing a page for each day of the year, and comprising upwards 

 of two thousand entries, written without very careful attention to grammatical rules, 

 but with the exquisite neatness which characterized the author's caligraphy. The 

 observations of successive years were recorded on the same page belonging to the day 

 of the month on which they were made ; the year was entered in one column, the plant 

 or material attacked or infested was named in a second column, and the insect attacking 

 or infesting in a third ; these were followed by more particular details as to the nature 

 and extent of the injury done, and generally as to the habits of the species under obser- 

 vation. The Professor observed that perhaps, on the whole, there was no better plan 

 of keeping an entomological journal, but the manifest objection to it was that it was 

 merely chronological (or rather seasonal), and there were no means of referring at once 

 to all the observations on the same subject ; but an index was required both of the 

 attacking insects and of the objects attacked. 



Professor Westwood also produced, as another Entomologico-literary curiosity, a 

 MS. page of the Proceedings of the Norwich Entomological Society, of which the fol- 

 lowing is a copy : — 



" Third Meeting. At Mr. Curtis's, December 4, 1810. 



" A paper was read (No. 4) from Mr. Curtis, on the powers of sound possessed by 

 some individuals among the Coleoptera. 



