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The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected: — Johan Wilhelm Zetter- 

 stedt, Lund: Honorary Foreign Member. H. J. Steuart, Esq., 76, Jermyn-street, 

 and the Rev. J. M. Simkiss, St. Mary's, Oscott, Birmingham ; Ordinary Members. 

 Robert Patterson, Esq., Belfast, and J. C. Hyndman, Esq., Belfast; Subscribers. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a most beautiful specimen of the Lepidopterous Cocytia 

 D'Urvillii, Boisd. ; the only previous example being one in bad condition in the col- 

 lection of Dr. Boisduval. He likewise exhibited, from a collection just received from 

 Mr. Wallace, on the Amazon, Papilio Columbus, recently described and figured in the 

 Society's 'Transactions' by Mr. Hewitson, and three new species of the genus Papilio. 

 Also a specimen of Gymnancyla canella, which he believed to have been taken on the 

 coast near Southend, being the second known British specimen ; and Dryophilus Ano- 

 bioides, bred from the same stump of broom from which he reared the insect last year. 



The President exhibited living larvae of (Estridas, from reindeer in the Zoological 

 Society's Garden. He observed that Linnaeus stated from six to eight were the usual 

 number on one deer, but in the present case there were from fifty to one hundred, and 

 they were very conspicuous. Mr. Bracy Clark, in his " Memoir on (Estridae " in the 

 ' Linnean Transactions,' had given his opinion that (Estrus Trompe and (E. Tarandi 

 were only sexes of one species ; but from the examination of specimens sent to him 

 by Professor Zetterstedt, he could not concur in this opinion ; moreover, CE. Trompe 

 was not found in the backs of reindeer, but in the frontal sinus. He also exhibited 

 drawings of the head of the larvae of (E. Tarandi and (E. Bovis, showing the mouth 

 destitute of mandibles, and the larvae could obtain nourishment by suction only ; in 

 this respect differing from QE. Equi, in which mandibles were present. 



The President also exhibited drawings made from the mutilated specimen of the 

 parasite upon Fulgora candelaria, received from Mr. Bowring, and exhibited at the 

 meeting last October. The venation of the wings was decidedly of a Lepidopterous 

 type, and the legs were of a Lepidopterous character ; the pupa also, as far as could 

 be ascertained without divesting it of its cottony covering, appeared to be that of a 

 Lepidopterous insect ; but such an one was so anomalous, that more and entire speci- 

 mens were greatly to be desired. 



A note was read from R. Maysmor, Esq., Devizes, accompanying some cocoons of 

 Trichiosoma Lucovum, stating that he believed the imago made its exit from the co- 

 coon backwards ; at least, he always found the exuviae remaining in the passage out, 

 with the head in the interior of the cocoon, and there does not appear to be room for 

 the insect to turn round in the skin it is about to leave behind. 



Mr. F. Smith called the attention of the meeting to a very interesting paper inti- 

 tuled "A New Phase of Bee-life," recently published in Dickens's w Household Words,' 

 from which he read the following extracts, premising that the scene of the discovery 

 was about 170 miles from the mouth of the Essequibo river. 



" Seating myself on the smooth gray trunk of a tree, which lay prostrate across the 

 sluggish water, whose broken limbs shone bright in the gay drapery of a scarlet-blos- 

 somed epiphyte, I lighted my pipe, and taking a book from my pocket, began lazily 

 turning over the pages and lightly gleaning the pleasant thought of a witty and social 

 poet. My attention now and again drawn away by the ceaseless tappings of a yellow- 

 headed woodpecker on a decaying tree close at hand, to the glittering flashes of a 

 Karabimitas, a Topaz-throated humming-bird — a frequenter of dark and solitary 

 creeks, capturing flies among the gay petals, for his nest-keeping partner, who, a few 

 paces up the stream was gently swinging with the evening breeze, in her tiny home. 



