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Salvin, E. Saunders, A. R. Wallace, and Wormald, were elected Members of 

 Council; and Mr. A. R.Wallace (President), Mr. S. Stevens (Treasurer), Messrs. 

 J. W. Dunning and R. McLachlan (Secretaries), and Mr. E. W. Janson (Librarian), 

 as Officers. Mr. Dunning read the report of the Council and (in the absence of 

 Mr. Bates) the President's Address. The proceedings terminated with the usual 

 vote of thanks to the outgoing Council and Officers. 



February 7th, 1870. — A. R. Wallace, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



It was announced that the Council offered two Prizes of the value of Five 

 Guineas each to authors (whether members of the Society or not) of Essays or 

 Memoirs, of sufficient merit, and drawn up from personal observation, on the 

 anatomy or oeconomy of any insect, or group of insects — the Essays to be sent in 

 before the end of November, 1870. 



Mr. Bond exhibited four examples of Satyrus Semele in which the colours 

 peculiar to each sex were combined, although the individuals were essentially 

 either male or female. 



Professor Westwood exhibited drawings of Anthocaris cardamines, Lyccena 

 Adonis, &c, presenting parallel peculiarities to those exhibited by Mr. Bond. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited various cocoons of Bombyx Yama-Mai and B. Pernyi 

 from various countries (on behalf of Dr. Wallace). 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a box of Continental Micro -Lepidoptera, of which each 

 example was carefully labelled with respect to locality, date, food-plant (if bred), &c, 

 this being the plan he adopted throughout his collection ; and he suggested it was 

 the only perfect plan, inasmuch as numbers referring to a register, though of equal 

 value while a collection was intact, were comparatively useless if it were dispersed. 



Mr. Bond exhibited more examples of Acridium peregrinum from Plymouth 

 (not Falmouth as recorded in our last). 



Mr. Smith exhibited specimens of L. migratoria from Scotland, and remarked 

 on the differences between them and L. Christii. 



Mr. Janson exhibited (for Mr. Crotch) Philonthus cicatricosus of Erichson, new 

 to this country, taken by Mr. Moncreaff at Portsea ; also Dyschirius angustainis, 

 Hydroporus unistriatus, and H. minutissimus, all rare or local British species. 



Major Parry read the concluding part of his paper intituled " A revised Cata- 

 logue of the Lucanoid Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species, &c. ;" and 

 exhibited a specimen of Nicagus obscurus, a species of doubtful location. 



The Secretary communicated some notes by Mr. Trimen on the habits of 

 species of Paussidce at the Cape of Good Hope. 



Mr. Butler read notes on the species of Oharaxes of the Reise der Novara, 

 with descriptions of new species. 



Mr. McLachlan placed before the meeting the MS. of the first part of the 

 Catalogue of British Insects proposed to be published by the Society. This part 

 comprised the Neuroptera in the Linnean sense (consisting of Psocidce, Perlidce, 

 Ephemeridoe, Odonata, Planipennia, and Trichoptera) , and numbered, in all, about 

 323 species. The Ejjlierneridce had been furnished by the Rev. A. E. Eaton ; the 

 Odonata were compiled from the works of De Selys & Hagen ; the others (with 

 the exception of the Perlidce, which were in a very imperfect condition) from Mr. 

 McLachlan's various Monographs, with additions and corrections. 



