﻿172 IDecember, 1860 



The President announced the presence at tho Meeting of Dr. J. L. Leconte, 

 one of the Honorary Members, a distinguished American entomologist. 



Mr. Janson exhibited on behalf of Dr. Power, 7 species of Coleoptera new to 

 the British lists, viz., Triarthrm Maerlcelii, Schmidt, taken near Bsher in July, 

 1869, and also by Mr. 0. Janson at Shirley, about the same time. Silvanus similis, 

 Er., taken at Bsher, on 4th August ; Nitpus gonospermi, Duval, of which many 

 specimens were taken by Mr. J. B. Syme in the Orkney Islands ; Bruchus lenbis, 

 Schon., from Birch-wood and Gravesend ; B. nigripes, Schon., from Brighton ; B. 

 nubihis, Boh., from Surbiton and Gravesend ; and B. canus, Germ., from Gravesend j 

 also Phratora, cavifrons, Thorns, (see Ent. M. Mag., vol. v, p. 100), from Esher, 

 Cowley, and Gravesend. 



Mr. Grut exhibited a selection of Coleoptera, taken by M. T. Deyrolle, at 

 Trebizond, including four new species of Carabus. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited larvae, pupa, and cocoon of Mantispcu styriaca, sent 

 to him by Herr Brauer, of Vienna, the species being parasitic in its earlier stages 

 in the nest of a spider of the genus Lycosa ; the young larvse, on emerging from, 

 the egg, had moderately well developed legs, but became almost apodal as they 

 approached maturity. 



Mr. Smith exhibited a considerable number of Meloe rugosa, Marsham, which 

 species had not been captured for many years. He found them near Prittlewell, 

 in Essex, in the vicinity of the nest of an Antlwphora. He had hoped to have exhi- 

 bited them alive, but their pugnacious disposition caused them to mutilate each 

 other to such an extent that he had very few perfect specimens left. 



Mr. Muller exhibited part of his collection of galls, calling particular attention 

 to two forms of maple galls, one on the leaf, the other on the footstalk ; notwith- 

 standing the difference in appearance and situation of these excrescences, he believed 

 them to have both been produced by Acarus aceris of Kaltenbach. 



Mr. Cutter exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Ward, a $ of Ornithoptera Brookiana, 

 that sex being previously unknown ; also a magnificent example of Papilio Anti- 

 machus, from the interior of Old Calabar, the only known example having been the 

 one collected by Smeathmann, a century since, and figured by Drury. 



Mr. Wormald exhibited some Rhopalocera from Shanghai and neighboui'hood, 

 collected by Mr. W. B. Pryer. Among them were examples of the curious Antho- 

 caris, with hook-tipped wings (A. Scolymus), hitherto only known from Japan. 



Mr. Dunning exhibited some Bombyces sent from Shanghai by Mr. Holdsworth; 

 among them insects identified as QUona punctata of Walker, Lasiocampa remota of 

 Walker, and Lebeda hebes of Walker. Mr. Holdsworth mentioned having bred all 

 three from one description of larva. 



The President exhibited a drawing of an extraordinary larva sent by Mr. Henry 

 Birchall from New Granada. It was apparently a species of Chcerocampa, and was 

 remarkable for the extraordinary form of the head, which resembled that of one 

 of the venomous snakes of that country. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby communicated a paper " On the Diurnal Lepidoptera of 

 Gmelin's edition of the " Systema Naturw.' " 



Professor Westwood read some notes on the type collections in Sweden, viz., 

 at Stockholm, those of De Geer, Paykull, Fallen, some of Schonherr's, and of 

 Gyllenhal's, Dalman, Fries, Billberg, Sahlberg, Boheman, Stal, Holmgren, Thomson, 

 Wallengren, Wahlberg, and the types of the " Eugenie's Besa ; " in Upsala, those 

 of Linne (Mus. Lod. Ulricse), Thunberg, and Gyllenhal ; in Lund, those of 

 Zetterstedt, Dahlbom, Thomson, and Ljungh. 



