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Entomologiscbe Zeitung,' 1860, Nos. 4 — 9 ; by the Fntomological Society of Stettin. 

 ' (Joleopteies des lies A9ores,' par Frederic Tarnier ; by the Author. ' The Zoologist' 

 for September ; by the Editor. ♦ Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical So- 

 ciety of Liverpool during the Forty-ninth Session, 1859—60 ;' by the Society. ' The 

 Journal of the Society of Arts' for August; by the Society. 'The Entomologist's 

 Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 201—204 ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Election of a Subscriber. 



John Ellerton, Esq., of 9, Westmoreland Place, Westbourne Grove, was elected a 

 Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited two examples of Diachromus germanus, recently captured 

 in the town of Deal; one having been found by Mr. Smith, jun., crawling on the 

 pavement; the other by himself, on the wall of a house. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited examples of the larva, pupa and imago of Trichodes 

 hispidus, forwarded to him by Mr. Plant, of Leicester. 



Mr. Waterhouse also exhibited two species of Dorcatoraa, both bred from rotten 

 wood brought from Richmond Park. The first was D. flavicornis, and was merely 

 exhibited for comparison with the second, which Mr. W. believed to be the D. chryso- 

 melina of Sturm. It differs in being more oblong than D. flavicornis. The three 

 terminal joints of the antennae are much more dilated in the male, and the penulti- 

 mate and antepenultimate joints have the upper edge emarginate. In specimens 

 which appear to be females the corresponding joints differ much less from those of 

 D. flavicornis ; still the upper edge is slightly emarginate, and the three club joints 

 are more unequal in size, the first being relatively larger. 



Mr. Janson remarked that Mr. Frederick Smith had captured, some twelve years 

 back, on old oaks near Peckham, a species of Dorcatoma which agreed well with 

 Sturm's figure and description of D. chrysoraelina ; he had himself likewise taken the 

 insect in the same locality, and had labelled it in his collection without doubt as 

 D. chrysomelina, Sturm. 



Mr. Pelerin exhibited a beautiful variety of Staphylinus caesareus, having the 

 pubescence entirely fulvous. Also, Plalystethus nitens and Mycetophagus 4-guttatus, 

 taken at Hornsey, both these species being of very rare occurrence in Britain. 



Mr. G. King exhibited some fine varieties of Crambus paludellus, Argynnis Eu- 

 pbrosyne, Arctia villica and Calligenia miniata. Also, a series of Acentropus niveus, 

 from Horning Fen, Norfolk. 



Mr. Lewis exhibited specimens of Hallomenus humeralis, which he had lately 

 found in abundance on a fence at Charlton. This species was first recorded as British 

 in the ' Entomologist's Annual' for 1859. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited some larvae of Nemotois scabiosellus which he had received 

 from Herr Hofmann, of Ratisbon. They had been obtained by collecting the scabious- 

 heads in which females had been observed ovipositing. The difliculty attendant on the 

 finding of these larvae was now apparent, as the young larva fed in the seeds, and then 

 made use of the seed-husk as a case, till it had attained a sufficient size to require a flat 

 leaf-made case. Whilst ensconced in the seed-husk the larva could scarcely be 

 detected, the inhabited seed-husk resembling so precisely the other seeds of the plant. 



Mr. Janson exhibited specimens of a new British Donacia, D. Comari (4Ar.), 



