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the anus ; again, beyond this is a series of six elongate black lunules, one in each 

 open areolet: in the abnormal example, all these markings are absent but nearly on 

 the site of the five round black spots are five round pure white spots, of which that 

 nearest the anal angle has an indistinct brown ocellus. The black marginal markings 

 which, in the normal state, have been described as hastate, are in the aberrant ex- 

 ample suffused and considerably altered in appearance. Under side. — This partakes, 

 in a great degree, of all the remarkable aberrations noticeable on the upper side, but, 

 in addition, the entire under surface has a washed or suffused appearance, all the 

 distinctness or sharpness, so to speak, of the usual exquisitely beautiful marbled 

 markings being obliterated." 



Athous campyloides. 



Mr. Newman also exhibited the three specimens of Athous campyloides taken by 

 that indefatigable collector, the late Mr. Kobert Foster, on the blossoms of elder, at 

 Ramsgate, and described at p. 509 of the first volume of the ' Entomological 

 Magazine.' Mr. Newman had lately submitted the specimens to the critical 

 examination of Mr. Janson, and he believed no one understood our British Elateridae 

 so thoroughly, and Mr. Janson pronounced the species to be perfectly distinct from 

 any other British Elater with which he was acquainted. The specimens are two 

 males and one female; they differ considerably in size and colour, but evidently 

 belong to the same species. Mr. Newman remarked that the time and locality were 

 very inviting to out-of-door entomologists, and he hoped to incite some of his 

 brethren of the net to a further search : the species, he observed, was probably Con- 

 tinental, as well as insular, but he knew of no other description than the one to which 

 he had alluded. He added that, since he had been in the room, Mr. Dawson had 

 shown him a specimen taken also at Ramsgate. 



Death of Dr. De Haan. 



The Secretary announced that the Council had been informed of the death of 

 Dr. De Haan, one of the Honorary Members of the Society, at the age of fifty- 

 four years. 



Election of Members. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected Members of the Society: — 

 Henry Ansell, Esq., Tottenham ; John Matthew Jones, Esq., Welshpool ; and Joseph 

 Baly, Esq., Kentish Town. 



Saturnia Ricini. 



Mr. Douglas called the attention of the Society to the note by Dr. Boisduval, in 

 the ' Annales' of the Entomological Society of France, on the Indian Saturnia, which 

 feeds, in the larva state, on the castor-oil plant, the insect being quite distinct from 

 S. Cynthia, with which it has been confounded, and Dr. Boisduval proposes for it the 

 name of S. Ricini, after its food-plant. 



Descriptions of new European Lepidoptera, Formicidce, Diptera, Arachnida, fyc. 



Mr. Douglas also directed attention to the ' Verhandlungen' of the Zoologisch- 

 Botanischen Verein of Vienna, containing many entomological articles of great interest, 



