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confirm them by capturing pairs of two species in copula. These dififerences are as 

 follows : — 



" 1st. The males have always a distinct longitudinal furrow or depression on the 

 under side of the abdomen, which in the females is quite smooth or rounded. 



"2nd. The males have one tooth less than the females on the outside of the ante- 

 rior tibiae. In the two larger species the males have two and the females three teeth ; 

 in the two smaller species the males have but one (terminal) tooth, the females two 

 teeth. 



"3rd. The pygidium in the males is simple, with the extremity somewhat obtuse. 

 In the females it terminates in a sharp reflexed edge, and in the two smaller species is 

 swollen and compressed above and very concave beneath, while in the males it 

 is a simple ovate cone equally rounded above and below. 



" It is probable that these characters exist in all the species of the genus, and may 

 enable persons possessing series of Lomapterae to pair their specimens. I may here 

 remark that the species of this genus are very closely allied, and at the same time very 

 limited in their range. In Ternate and Gilolo, and in Kaioa and Batchian, — islands 

 only ten or fifteen miles apart,— are found distinct but closely allied species, differing 

 so slightly (although constantly) that they would be infallibly considered as very 

 trifling varieties, if single specimens of each only were examined. Differences 

 of colour exist in specimens from the same locality ; while minute differences of form 

 and sculpture mark these representative species of adjoining islands.'' 



Mr. Gloyne read descriptions of some nev^^ species of Lema. 



Mr. Stainton read ' Descriptions of South-African Tineina collected by R. Triraen, 

 Esq., in 1858—59.' 



Mr. Tegetmeier announced the death, on the 31st ult., of Dr. Edward Bevan, of 

 Hereford, one of the original Members of this Society, and author of that well-known 

 work, ' The Honey Bee,' at the advanced age of 80 years. 



March 5, I860.— J. W Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 

 Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors : — 'The Journal of the Eoyal Agricultural Society of England,' Vol. xx. 

 Part 2 ; presented by the Society. ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' No. 9^ ; 

 by the Society. * Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. iv. No. 16; 

 by the Society. ' The Zoologist,' for March ; by the Editor. ' Saggio di Ditterlogia 

 Messicana, di Luigi Bellardi, Professore di Storia Naturale,' Part 1 ; by the Author. 

 'Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve,' Tome xv. 

 Ire Partie ; by the Society. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for February; by 

 the Society. ' The Literary Gazette ' for February ; by the Editor. ' The Athenaeum ' 

 for February ; by the Editor. ' Tiie Entomologists' V^eekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 171 — 

 179, inclusive; by the Editor, H. T. Stainton, Esq. ' Stettiner Entomologische 

 Zeitung,' 1860, Nos. 1 — 3 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



