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Entomological Society, 



■ Entomological Botany' (Reprinted from the * Zoologist ' for 1854, 1855 and 1856) ; 

 by the Author, H. T. Stainton. ' Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung,' 1862, Nos. 7— 

 9; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' Journal of the Proceedings of the Lin- 

 nean Society,' Vol. vi. No. 24 ; by the Society. 



Election of Member. 



John S. Stevens, Esq., of 24, Bloomsbury Street, London, was balloted for and 

 elected a Member of the Society. 



Alteration of the Bye-Laws. 



A copy of the Bye-Laws of the Society, with certain proposed alterations therein, 

 was laid on the table and taken as read to the Meeting. Notice was given that a 

 Special General Meeting would be held, for the consideration of such alterations, on 

 Monday, the 1st of December next, at 7 p.m. 



Exhibitions, 8fc. 



Sir John Hearsey exhibited Smerinthus denticulatus from Barrackpore, near Cal- 

 cutta, and drawings of the larvae feeding on Cordia Sebistena. In addition to a caudal 

 horn the young larva had a frontal one, which, however, was entirely cast off at the 

 last change of skin. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two specimens of Lithosia Caniola, bred from the egg by Dr. 

 Knaggs. They had remained ten days in the oval, eleven months in the larval, and 

 ten days in the pupal state. The larva (a coloured drawing of which was shown) fed 

 on clover, and changed its skin about forty times. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a monstrosity of Acherontia Atropos, the right side of 

 which was of the usual form and hue, whilst the wings on the left side were darker, 

 suffused and without distinct markings, and singularly jagged on the costa and outer 

 margin. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited bred specimens of Bactra uliginosana which he had received 

 from Stettin, where the larva had been found rather plentifully on Lythrum salicaria. 

 The species is one of the few Tortrices which are double- brooded, appearing in June 

 and again in September. The June specimens have almost invariably a quadrate 

 black spot on the disc, but in the September specimens, which vary considerably in 

 other respects, the discoidal spot is generally wanting. Of the six specimens exhibited 

 two belonged to the June, four to the September brood. 



Mr. Stainton also called the attention of the Meeting to a very valuable paper on 

 the genus Nepticula from the pen of Von Heinemann, of Brunswick, which has just 

 appeared in the August and October numbers of the ' Wiener Entomologische Monat- 

 schrift.' It extends to fifty-two pages ; thirty-three species are described, of which no 

 less than ten are new, and independently of the value of the descriptive portion of the 

 paper, it contains some very interesting observations; for instance, on the remarkable 

 shortness of life of many of the Nepticula larvae. How short that life actually was 

 had not at present been determined, but a friend of Von Heinemann's had observed 

 that on some apple twigs, which he examined with great attention, and carefully picked 

 off every leaf in which he could find a mine, he actually fouud empty mines on some 

 of the leaves after the lapse of thirty-six hours, showing that in that short time larvae 

 which had been previously invisible had fed up and gone away. This extreme 

 shortness of larval life was only manifested in the summer broods of larvae, the autumnal 



