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selection of Indian Insects from the Himalayan district, consisting of many fine and 

 rare species of several orders; by S. P. Pratt, Esq. Some small insects sent from 

 Ceylon by Mr. Thwaites ; by W. Spence, Esq. 



Election of Members. 



Herr Dohrn, President of the Entomological Society of Stettin, and William 

 Atkinson, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.B.S., &c, were balloted for and elected Members 

 of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a splendid specimen of Ornithoptera Brookiana, the new 

 species recently captured in Borneo by Mr. Wallace, and of which the description 

 was read at the April Meeting of this Society. 



Mr. Foxcroft sent for exhibition a box of Coleoptera, recently taken in Perthshire, 

 including a single specimen of the very rare Dendrophagus crenatus, and a bred 

 specimen of Anarta cordigera, with a pupa and puparium : of the latter he says, 

 " They are found made up on the sunny side of stones or on the bark of birch trees ; 

 but the perfect insect selects the side of the stone or tree away from the sun.'' 



The President exhibited the insects presented by Mr. Spence, and read the 

 following extract of Mr. Thwaites' letter addressed to that gentleman : — 



" One of the bottles contains the larvae and imagos of a Carabideous beetle which 

 infests the nests of a little black ant, a few of which are in the bottle. The other 

 little bottle contains a lot of tiny species of insects of all kinds, amongst which is the 

 pupa of a little Papilio, sent me by a neighbour as ' a most wonderful natural produc- 

 tion,' and which, viewed through a lens, has a most extraordinary resemblance to a 

 monkey's head." 



The President also read the following note, addressed to him by Mons. Charles 

 Delarouzee, of Paris: — 



" In removing an old butt, which had served many years to hold water, to water the 

 garden, it occurred to me that some insects might be found under it ; and absolutely, 

 by examining the earth carefully to the depth of three feet, and in the decayed wood 

 of the butt, I took an individual of Euplectus sulcicollis, Redt. y and many examples 

 of Anommatus 12-striatus and Langelandia anophthalma. I suppose that the Anom- 

 matus is a parasite of the Langelandia : probably, by searching in similar places, 

 you might ascertain the fact." 



The President observed that the insect described by Stephens as an Anommatus 

 was the Aglenus brunneus of Gyllenhal and Erichson. He believed that the Anom- 

 matus had not yet been discovered in England. 



On Salurnia (Hyalophora) cecropia. 



Under this title the following note, by W. S. M. D'Urban, Esq., of Newport, near 

 Exeter, was read, and the cocoons alluded to exhibited: — 



" Having seen in the reports of the Proceedings of the Entomological Society, 

 during the last twelve months, many notices relating to the silk of Boinbyx Cynthia, 



