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Exhibitions. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen of Biston hirtarius, having the wings and abdomen 

 of the female, but the antennas were both deeply pectinated, that on the right side as 

 much so as in the male insect : this singular monstrosity was taken by Mr. Mitford in 

 the Regent's Park, in April last. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited recently hatched larvae of Petasia nubeculosa, Notodonta 

 carmelita and N. dictaaoides, the first-named species from eggs sent from Perthshire 

 by Mr. Foxcroft, the others from eggs laid by specimens taken by Mr. Stevens at 

 Addington Park during the past month. 



Mr. S. Stevens also exhibited a box of insects lately sent home by Mr. Bates from 

 Ega, Upper Amazons, containing, amongst other fine species, Papilio Pausanias, Cal- 

 lithea Batesii and Haetera Andromeda, also Megacephala Klugii and Megacephala 

 n. s., together with a remarkable species of Cicada. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited Cryptocephalus Coryli, taken at West Wickham Wood, 

 May 29th; also Lebia Crux-minor, taken by Mr. Hemmings at Holme Bush, near 

 Brighton, May 25th ; Endomychus coccineus, taken from a dead beech tree, by Mr. 

 G. Harding, at Stapleton, near Bristol; and Platyrhinus latirostris and Biphyllus lu- 

 natus, from Fungi at the same place. 



Mr. Douglas also exhibited the case-bearing larva of an apparently new species of 

 Coleophora, found by Mr. Wailes, of Newcastle, feeding on Genista anglica. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited Platyrhinus latirostris, received from Mr. Foxcroft, in 

 Perthshire, where it appeared to have been met with in abundance. 



Mr. Westwood wished the Fungi in which this species was found to be examined 

 for the larva, which is yet unknown. 



Mr. Smith also read an extract from a letter received by him from a correspondent 

 at Bristol, who stated that a London collector had recently taken five new species of 

 bees in that neighbourhood, which he had sold for £\ each. 



Mr. S. Stevens stated that he took a singular larva on Statice Limonium, at Sheer- 

 ness, two years ago, which produced Agdistes Bennettii, Curt. On the 25th ult. he 

 found four more nearly full-fed larvae at the same place, and read the following descrip- 

 tion of the larva and pupa, of which he also exhibited a drawing : — 



" Larva green, with two sharp projections on the head and one on the tail, of a 

 pink colour. Feeds on Statice Limonium on the coast, and changes to pupa in May. 



" Pupa of a dull lead-colour, attached to the plant ; changes to imago in about 

 three weeks." 



Captain Cox stated that some time since he found a pupa, apparently of Smerin- 

 thus Tiliae, in a cocoon formed of silk and particles of wood, under the loose bark of 

 a plane tree, at a distance of about eight feet from the ground: from the fact of the 

 pupa-case being much smoother than usual, and the above-mentioned singular devia- 

 tion from the normal economy of this species, he had some doubts as to its identity 

 until the perfect insect emerged. 



Mr. Armitage exhibited a box of Coleoptera which he had recently taken in the 

 South of France, containing, amongst other interesting species, Bolbocerus Gallicus 

 and Callicnemis Latreillei. 



The President exhibited some drawings of lame and pupae of Lepidoptcra, made 

 in Natal by Mr. Plant, from which he had prepared Plates for publication in the 

 1 Transactions : of one, a fine new species of Libesia, he read a description. 



