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Entomontocican Society or Lonpon, 23rd January, 1871, ANNIVERSARY 
Meetine. A. R. Wallace, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following gentlemen were elected Members of the Council for 1871:— 
Messrs. Butler, Dunning, Fry, Grut, Higgins, McLachlan, Parry, Pascoe, H. Saunders, 
Stainton, 8. Stevens, A. R. Wallace, and Westwood. 
Mr. A. R. Wallace was re-elected as President, Mr. S. Stevens as Treasurer, 
Mr. McLachlan, with Mr. F. Grut, as Secretaries, and Mr. HE. W. Janson as 
Librarian. 
The President read an address, for which, and for his services during the past 
year, Mr. McLachlan proposed, and Mr. Stainton seconded, a cordial vote of thanks : 
Mr. Wallace replied. Mr. Pascoe proposed, and Major Parry seconded, a vote of 
thanks to the other officers, coupled with the name of Mr. Dunning, the retiring 
Secretary, who returned thanks. 
6th February, 1871.—A. R. Wallace, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Pastor Kawall, of Pussen, Kurland, was elected a Corresponding Member. 
Mr. Bond exhibited several Lepidoptera, taken by Mr. Hedle last season in 
Perthshire, viz.: Pachnobia alpina, the third British example; a dark variety of 
Thera juniperata, the ordinary form in that district, and appearing two months earlier 
than in the South of England; Gelechia boreella ; and a piece of web formed by 
the gregarious larvae of Hyponomeuta evonymella (padi, Z.), over a yard long. Also 
aspecimen of Vanessa Atalanta, bred by a metropolitan collector, which still bore the 
larval head. Professor Westwood said he could remember only four recorded in- 
stances of similar monstrosities, viz.: Nymphulis populi, Gastropacha quercifolia, 
Dytiscus marginalis, and a Syrphus. 
Mr. Bond laid before the meeting beautifully executed photographs of the eggs 
of bird-parasites, from slides prepared by Mr. Norman. 
Mr. Miiller exhibited several oak-galls from Morocco, collected by Mr. Trovey 
Blackmore. 
The Rev. H. S. Gorham exhibited Oxytelus fulvipes, Er., from Needwood, new 
to Britain. 
Prof. Westwood exhibited drawings of a singular Coccus from the under-side of 
the leaves of a Siamese Cypripedium. The male scales were remarkable for the 
presence of six raised lines, continued as spine-like processes beyond the shield. 
Mr. Stainton remarked that a Coccus on Palermo lemons had lately come under 
his notice, distinct from the ordinary Coccus of the orange, and which had the 
peculiarity of causing the space immediately around the scale to remain green, when 
the other portion of the rind had acquired the characteristic lemon-colour. 
Professor Westwood further exhibited a minute Coriva (C. ovivora, Westwood) 
which was destructive to the ova of fresh-water fishes in India. 
Mr. Butler read “ Descriptions of a new genus and six new species of 
 Pierine.” 
