6940 Entomological Socieii/. 



Election of Members. 



Dr. Schaum and Mons. Leon Diifour were elected Honorary Members, and Mons. 

 J. Bigot, Vice-President of the Entoraolo<rical Society of France, of Rue de Luxem- 

 bourg, Paris, an ordinary Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a large box of Coleoptera sent from Batchian by 

 Mr. A. R. Wallace ; it contained a vast number of new species, some beautiful 

 Bupresiidae, &c. 



Mr. Janson exhibited a box of Coleoptera he had just received from Mr, C. 

 Turner, collected by him during the last few weeks at Rannoch, Perthshire, 

 and remarked that no less than four of ihe species were not comprised in Mr. Mur- 

 ray's ' Catalogue of ihe Coleoptera of Scotland,' viz., Xyloterus domesticus, Linn., 

 Toraicus acuminatus, Gi/IL, Cis Alni, Gyll., and Brrtdycellus plucidus, Gyll. 



Mr. Dunning exhibited a sin<»ular pale Noctua, which had been pronounced by 

 Mr. H. Doubleday to be a variety of Mamestra anceps. 



Mr. Dunning also read a letter addressed to him by C. Maurice, Esq., respecting 

 the specimen of Sphinx Pinastri exhibited by Mr. Sealy at the last Meeting of the 

 Society, in which the writer asserted positively that the insect in question was caught 

 by him at Romsey, as then stated by Mr. Sealy. 



The Secretary also read a letter addressed to Mr. Sealy by S. H. Maurice, Esq., 

 brother of the before-named gentleman, who had, as mentioned at the February Meeting, 

 taken some moths in Switzerland during the past summer: in this letter the writer 

 states that he feels certain the moth in question was not one of his Swiss captures, but 

 was caught by his brother at Romsey, after his return from Switzerland. 



Mr. Westwood made some observations on the usefulness of labelling insects at the 

 time of capture, by which such instances of disputed identity as the present were 

 avoided; he objected to the plan of employing a number referring to a note-book as 

 commonly in use, as, in the event of dispersion of a collection on the death of 

 the owner, such numbers became useless to all but the possessor of the note-book, and 

 indeed instances had come under his notice in which the said book bad been lost. He 

 Lad always employed in his collection tickets bearing an abbreviation of the locality, 

 as Cb. W. for Coombe Wood. 



The President feared that Mr. Westwood's plan of abbreviations vvould be rather 

 perplexing to any one but himself, unless accompanied by an index, which would be 

 open to the same objections as the note-books which he had just condemned. 



Some conversation ensued on the claims of Sphinx Pinastri to be considered 

 a British species ; during which Mr. F. Walker reminded the Meeting that Mr. 

 Thomas Marshall, well known to many Meiiibers present as one of our most accurate 

 observers, had himself seen this insect alive in Cumberland, and had recorded the fact 

 in the ' Entomologist ' some years ago. 



Dr. Wallace exhibited two examples of Acosmetia caliginosa, taken by Mr. Grim- 

 stead in a wood near Ryde, Isle of Wight: he observed that the species had hitherto 

 only been captured in this country in the New Forest. 



The Secretary read the following paper by Mr. G. Wailes, of Newcastle :— 



