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Entomological Sociely, 



the Society. ' The Zoologist' for July ; by the Editor. ' Exotic BiUterflies,' Part 27 ; 

 by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' Bulletins de rAcademie Royale des Sciences, des 

 Lettres el des Beaux Arts de Belgique,' 2me Serie, Toraes i., ii. et iii ; 'Memoires 

 Couronnes,^ Tome vii. ; by the Academy. ' The Classed Catalogue of the Educational 

 Division of the South Kensington Museum'; by the Committee. 'The liiterary 

 Gazette' for June; by the Editor. 'The Athena>um' for June; by the Editor. 

 ' The Journal of the Society of Arts ' ; by the Society. ' A Manual of British Butter- 

 flies and Moihs,' No. 18; 'The Entomologist's Weelily Intelligencer,' Nos. 89, 90, 

 91 and 92 ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Smith exhibited some insects of various orders collected at Sierra Leone by 

 Mr. P'oxcroft, upon which Mr. Adain White communicated the following notes : — 



Anthocharis Evippe, male and female. 



Pliilognoma Varanes. Found in West Africa as well as South Africa. 



Romaleosoma Ceres. A genus of inany species, of sombre and yet not unhandsome 

 butterflies, peculiar to West Africa. 



The large black Hesperia {3Iars. P) and two or three other interesting species may 

 be specified. 



Ponlia Narica. Connecting Pontia with Leucophasia. 



Myrina Alcides or an allied species. It would be very valuable to ascertain 

 the transformations of this fine butterfly and of the allied genus lolaus. 



Acraa Circels, Westw, There are several species of Acrcea in this little col- 

 lection ; Acraea Euryla, ra?-., with its spined chrysalis, and Acraea Quirina, a lovely 

 species. 



The sugar-cane Nonagria, very like the one figured by Landsdown Guilding, from 

 the West Indies. 



Of Sphingidse, Daphnis Nerii, so widely distributed, and Acheronlia Atropos, 

 whose food-plants are also widely spread, may be specified. 



The fig-tree feeder is one of the most interesting moths in the collection ; it 

 belongs to the same group as Cossus and Zeuzcra, and may prore a genus allied to 

 Langsdorfia from Brazil and Cossodes from King George's Sound. 



Massacja Hesparia, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. in Brit. Mus., pt. 2, p. 358. (Phalccna 

 Hesparia, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 87, pi. 56, f. C). 



We have an imperfect specimen of this in the British Museum from Sierra Leone, 

 where it was found by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. Cramer published it as from 

 Demerara, but Morgan's, and again Foxcroft's capture of it as well as its affinities, 

 show that Siena Leone is its real habitat. 



Thyridoptcryx Sierricola, White. Male. Antennis subfuscis pallidulis, alis hya- 

 linis, argenteo-nitidis, anticis ad basin plaga atra longi squamulata, thorace lana alba 

 sericea louga induto. Hob. — Sierra Leone. 



An interesting member of a genus which doubtless abounds in species. Mr. 

 Westwood's monographs of these "Arcana" will require shortly a new edition. This 

 should be figured with its chrysalis, cocoon. Sec. 



Of Orthoptera, there may be specified a curious Hymenotes with its Membracis- 

 like aspect, a very interesting Mantidous insect allied to one described by Westwood. 



