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broadly red. In Mr. Westwood's collection is an English C. montana. He at first 

 described it as new, but afterwards named it C. haematodes, though he did not recol- 

 lect whereon he had founded the name.' 



"It is not unlikely, according to this communication, that the two first specimens 

 belong to the above-mentioned variety of C. montana with brown-bordered sub veins, 

 or to C. adusta. About the third I abstain from making any conjecture. Extremely 

 desirable is it that some English entomologist would undertake a new examination 

 and determination of the Cicadae in Linne's collection. " 



Mr. Westwood considered that C. haematodes ought not to be placed amongst the 

 singing Cicadas, as it appeared that no one had ever heard it sing. 



Dr. Gray observed that a lady of his acquaintance had captured two examples ou 

 the window of a house in the New Forest, which were quite mute. 



Mr. Stevens said he had entomologized a great deal in the locality for the species, 

 but never heard any sound produced by it. 



Mr. Douglas had made particular inquiries of residents in the New Forest, where 

 the species occurred, and all agreed that the insect never sung nor produced any 

 sound whatever. 



Mr. Baly read descriptions of twenty new species of Doryphora, &c, and exhibited 

 some beautiful drawings of the insects. 



Mr. Smith made some remarks in reply to Mr. Janson's observations on Bledius, 

 read at the February Meeting. 



Mr. Westwood and Mr. Janson spoke on the same subject. 



April 6, 1857.— Dr. J. E. Gray, V.P., in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 donors: — Dr. Jacob Sturm's ' Deutschland's Fauna,' Die Insecten, Vol. xxiii. ; pre- 

 sented by Dr. J. K. C. F. Sturm and Dr. J. W. Sturm, through W. Spence, Esq. 

 ♦Exotic Butterflies,' Part XXII. ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' Revue et Magasin de 

 Zoologie,' 1857, No. 2; by the Editor, M. F. E. Guerin-Meneville. 'The Zoologist' 

 for April ; by the Editor. ' The Athenaeum ' for March ; by the Editor. ' The Lite- 

 rary Gazette' for March ; by the Editor. * The Journal of the Society of Aits;' by 

 the Society. 



Election of a Subscriber. 



G. Lewis, Esq., of 6, Kidbrook Place, Blackheath, was balloted for, and elected a 

 Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Foxcroft sent for exhibition two pairs of Petasia nubeculosa recently taken at 

 Rannoch. 



Mr. Stevens observed that last autumn he had reared some larvae of this species 

 from the eggs, but none of the perfect insects had yet emerged, although the pupae 

 appeared to be healthy. 



