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new to our lists, but from the fact that some of these insects had only hitherto been 

 found in the Mediterranean or al Maderia. The principal species exhibited were 



1. Diasemia Ramburialis, of which Mr. Boyd had only taken a single specimen ; 

 this species was first detected in the Island of Corsica. 



2. Gelechia leucomelanella, a conspicuous black and while species, hitherto known 

 only as a native of Central Europe, bred from Sileue maritima. 



3. Gelechia Cornubia, n. s. (or a variety of Solutella) ; this was not scarce among 

 the Cornish heath {Erica vagans). 



4. Gelechia Ocellatella^ n. s., bred from Beta maritima; this species had been 

 obtained in Maderia by Mr. Wollaston. 



5. Glyphipteryx schcenicolella, n. s,, allied to G. oculatella ; these were bred from 

 the heads of Schoenus nigricans. 



6. A series of Elachista triseriatella and dispunctella^ clearly showing that those 

 two species were merely forms of one and the same. 



Mr. A. F. Sheppard exhibited, on behalf of Mr. C. S. Gregson, specimens 

 of Peronea Potentillana, Cooke, recently described as a distinct species in the 

 'Zoologist'; Mr. Sheppard expressed his opinion that the insects in question were 

 varieties of P. Schalleriana. 



Mr. Edleston sent for exhibition a series of specimens, from which it was evident 

 that the so-called species is a mere variety. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some beautiful butterflies taken by Mr. Wallace in Celebes, 

 amongst which were both sexes of Ornithoptera Remus and O. Haliphron, Papilio 

 Androcles, and two undescribed species of that genus, some fine Pieridae, &c. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two bred specimens of Xanthia gilvago, and an example of 

 Agrotis saucia, in most perfect condition, which was infested by hundreds of a small 

 Acarus, of a species unknown to the Members present. 



Dr. Knag<>s exhibited some Noctuje, &c. lately taken at Camden Town, observing 

 that the occurrence of such species close to the metropolis was interesting ; they 

 included Agrotis saucia, A. corticea, and A. ravida, Gortyna micacea, Eudorea Cem- 

 brse, &c. ; he also exhibited some larva? of a species of Dynastes, from Demerara, pre- 

 served in spirits, and a small female of a Termes from the same locality. 



Mr. Stevens stated that he has recently been informed by a letter from Mr. H. W. 

 Bates, that the small pale Scarites taken by him on the Amazons, and briefly charac- 

 terized by Mr. Westwood, at the February Meeting of the Society, by the name of 

 Solenogenys fteda, was an inhabitant of the nests of white ants. 



Mr. Robinson exhibited specimens of Lamophlsus Clematidis, found in the stems 

 of the Clematis Viialba, near Gravesend. 



Mr. Piffard exhibited a collection of insects, consisting chiefly of Coleoptera and 

 Lepidoptera, which he had recently made in Nova Scotia and the vicinity of Demerara 

 River. 



Memoirs of the Entomoloyical Society of the Netherlands, 



M.V. Westwood called attention to the recently published ' Memoirs of the 

 Entomological Society of the Netherlands,' as containing many beautiful figures and 

 valuable papers ; he observed that the long illness and subsequent death of Dr. De 

 Haan had caused the collections at the Leyden Museum to be much neglected ; he 

 was, however, happy to say that his successor, Mr. S. C. Snellen van Yollenhoven, 



