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Mr. Douglas read a series of observations suggested by, and in 

 opposition to, the views concerning insect life published by Dr. 

 Badham. 



April 6th.— W. Spence, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



A letter v^ras read from Sir Gardner Wilkinson, thanking the 

 Society for his election as a corresponding member. 



Captain Parry exhibited a box of insects recently obtained from 

 the Gold Coast, including many rare and interesting species, as well 

 as sjieciraens of Goliathus Cacicus ; a locality worthy of notice, as 

 Mr. Savage had stated his opinion that the Gold Coast was the region 

 of G. Drurii, and the Grain Coast that of G. Cacicus. 



Captain Parry also exhibited some heads of seeds similar to that of 

 millet, obtained from the interior of South Africa, 300 or 400 miles 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, nearly every seed of which was infested 

 by a living specimen of a small Calandra allied to C. oryzce. 



Mr. F. Bond exhibited a specimen oiPhryxus Hippolytes, a remark- 

 able parasitic crustacean allied to Bopyrus, recently described by 

 Rathke in the ' Nova Acta,' and which had been found beneath the 

 abdomen of a white shrimp {Pandalus annuUcornis) on the coast of 

 Sussex. 



Mr. E. Doubleday exhibited a new species of the genus Papilio, 

 P. Dionysus, Doubl., allied to P. Hippocoon, from the coast of tro- 

 pical Western Africa, from the collection of Mr. Loddiges. 



Mr. Ingpen exhibited a specimen of a species of Polistes from 

 Mexico, from the body of which several filamentous fungi had vege- 

 tated ; likewise the nest of the campanular wasp of Britain. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of a new British moth, Gra- 

 phiphora tristigma, Ochsenheimer (but not of Stevens), allied to Gr. 

 triangulum, which he had reared from a caterpillar found feeding by 

 night on the blossoms of the sallow in April 1844 at Weybridge, as 

 Mr. Stevens believes. The insect hitherto known in this country 

 under the name of tristigma is distinct, and is the Noctua rhomhoidea 

 of Esper and Ochsenheimer. He also exhibited specimens of Orthosia 

 leucographa, ruhricosa, munda, miniosa, Calocampa exoleta, and Xylina 

 rhizoUtha, taken this spring from the blossoms of the sallow in the 

 neighbourhood of Dorking ; also Orthosia munda, populeti and Calo- 

 campa vetusta from Wimbledon Park, having captured these insects 

 (in consequence of the mildness of the season) a month or six weeks 

 earlier than he took them last year. 



Mr. Doubleday also exhibited, in behalf of Mr. Angus, a new 

 genus of butterflies captured in New Zealand by that gentleman, 

 allied to Polyommatus ; also another new genus allied to Agarista, 

 from the same island. 



The following memoirs were read : — 



" A Monograph on the genera Pseudomorpha, Adelotopus, &c.** 

 By J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S. 



" Descriptions of some species of Oiketicus from the island of 

 Ceylon." By R. Templeton, Esq. 



''Descriptions of three new exotic Insects." By A. White, Esq., 

 Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Voli. 10 



