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Elands bequeathed by the late Earl of Derby. Mr. R. Hill, Corresponding Member, 

 had forwarded some reptiles from Jamaica, of which one serpent was entirely new to 

 the collection. Capt. Fulton, R.N., and Mr. H. Manifold, had also presented valua- 

 ble additions to the reptile room, which has been greatly improved during the present 

 summer. The increasing interest with which this branch of the garden establishment 

 is visited, has determined the Council to provide for its extension in another building, 

 which will be completed in the course of the winter. 



The number of visitors in September exceeded those of the corresponding period 

 of 1850, by 74,217.— D. W. M. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



October 6, 1851. — J. O. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Monsr. Victor Signoret and J. McGillivray, Esq. were present as visitors. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors : — ' Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool,' No. 

 6, 1849 — 51 ; by the Society. 'Catalogus Systematicus ad Cramerum, auctore Hen- 

 rici Verloren ; ' by the Author. ' Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire 

 Naturelle de Geneve,' tome xii. 2nde partie ; by the Society. ' Journal of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England,' vol. xii. part 1 ; by the Society. ' Memorias de la 

 Real Academia de Ciencias de Madrid,' tomo i. parte 1 : and 'Resumen de las Actas,' 

 ditto, 1849-50 ; both presented by the Academy. ' Degli Insetti Carnivori adoperati 

 a distruggere le specie dannose all' Agricultura di Antonio Villa,' Milano, 1845 : ' Os- 

 servazioni Entoraologique durante l'Eclisse del 9 Octobre, 1847, di Antonio Villa ; ' 

 both by the Author. * Entomologische Zeitung,' for September ; by the Entomologi- 

 cal Society of Stettin. 'The Zoologist' for October ; by the Editor. ' Philosophical 

 Transactions of the Royal Society,' 1850, part 2, 1851, part 1 : ' Proceedings,' ditto, 

 No. lb : ' List of Members,' ditto, 1850 : all by the Society. ' Annales de la Societe 

 Entomologique de France,' tome viii. 1850 ; by the Society. ' Bericht iiber die Ar- 

 beiten der Entomologischen Sektion (of the Silesian Society of Natural History),' 

 1850 ; by the Society. ' Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the East In- 

 dia Company ; ' by the Hon. Court of Directors of the Company. ' The Athenaeum,' 

 for August and September; by the Editor. A number of insects, chiefly Coleoptera, 

 collected in Renfrewshire ; by Mr. Young, Paisley. A fine series of varieties of Or- 

 thosia instabilis ; by Mr. Barlow. 



John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., and Captain H. Lodder, 47th Infantry, were balloted 

 for and elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a fine series of the hitherto very rare Heliophobus his- 

 pida, taken sitting on rocks in the Isle of Portland, between the 20th and 27th of Sep- 

 tember ; Aporophila australis, from the same locality ; Eupithecia ultimaria, Ramb^ 

 Boisd., Dup., a new British species taken at Dover in the middle of September; a spe- 

 cimen of Deiopeia pulchella, taken in Somersetshire in 1847 ; and a specimen of Cla- 

 viger foveolatus, taken near Dorking in September. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited a new species of Peronea, reared from larvae found 

 on Spiraea Ulmaria. 



Mr. Augustus Sheppard exhibited a pupa of Saturnia Carpini in its cocoon, which 

 latter was rounded internally and externally, instead of being of the usual egg-shape ; 



