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Mr. Walker observed that he had recently found Aphodius rufipes flying to a light 

 at night; it was, he believed, the only night-flying species of the genus. 



Mr. Douglas had also found A. fossor attracted by a light. 



Mr. Stevens stated he had lately taken four or five specimens of Helops pallida at 

 Deal. 



Mr. Smith read a paper, by Mr. Frederick Bates, intituled " Description of a New 

 Species of the Genus Myrmecilla." 



October 6, 1856.— J. 0. Westwood, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 donors: — 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' vol. viii. No. 22; presented by the So- 

 ciety. ' Meinoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve,' 

 Tome xiv. Ire Partie; by the Society. 'Exotic Butterflies,' Part XX ; by W. W. 

 Sauuders, Esq., F.R.S. 'List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Col- 

 lection of the British Museum,' Part VIII., Sphingidae ; by the Author, F.Walker, 

 Esq., F.L.S. ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1856, Nos. 6 and 7 ; by the Editor, M. 

 F. E. Guerin-Meneville. 'The Zoologist' for October; by the Editor. 'The Ento- 

 mologist's Weekly Intelligencer' for 1856; the same work, Nos. 23, 24, 25 and 26; 

 'Elements of Entomology: an Outline of the Natural History and Classification of 

 British Insects,' by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S. ; 'A Manual of British Butterflies and 

 Moths,' by H. T. Stainton ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. ' The Athenaeum ' for August 

 and September; by the Editor. 'The Literary Gazette' for September; by the Edi- 

 tor. ' The Journal of the Society of Arts ' for September ; by the Society. ' Kritische 

 Bemerkuugeu liber M. S. Merian Metamorphoses Insectorum Surinamensium ;' ' Un- 

 tersuchungen iiber die Fliigeltypen der Coleopteren ; ' by the Author, Dr. H. Bur- 

 meister. A box of minute Coleoptera from Ceylon ; by Wm. Speuce, Esq., F.R.S. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a fine specimen of Carabus intricatus, which had lately 

 been picked up dead near Plymouth ; also a pair of Monohammus Sutor, found iu an 

 old ash tree near Yaxley, Hunts; and a bottle containing a quantity of liquorice 

 powder, which, although the cork had not been taken out for five years, contained 

 several living specimens of Endrosis feuestrella, the larvae of which had evidently sub- 

 sisted on the powder, and on the end of the cork inserted in the neck of the bottle. 



Mr. Stevens also exhibited a box of beautiful Lepidoptera, chiefly minute species 

 of Pyralidae and Tiueidae, taken by Mr. Diggles at Moreton Bay. Many of these 

 species were bred from the larva. [Mr. Stevens observed that Mr. Diggles, who is an 

 artist by profession, would be happy to enter into engagements with any persons who 

 might require drawings of the larvae of any species bred by him. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited some cases, formed by the larva? of various South Austra- 

 lian Lepidoptera, including curiously ribbed cases of a species of Psyche. 



Mr. Lubbock exhibited some blind Gammari, from a well at Brighton. He ob- 

 served that the eyes were absent or very rudimentary, as in Niphargus spclaius, from 



