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stepping upon them, when out flies a jet of water to the distance of several feet. 

 When considering the abundance of this species I am the more struck by the absence 

 of Mesembryan them urn, unless indeed that law which seems to obtain in some king- 

 doms of Nature should hold here, viz. that the stronger of two nearly allied species 

 should prevail over the other, until it became dominant and absolutely excluded it. 



The only other anemone we possess is Sagartia sphyrodeta, of which I have 

 nothing to advance, save that it inhabits Hilbre Island in numbers which place it for 

 frequency bet een S. niiniata and S. viduata. 



But anemones are not our strong point; indeed in species we are poor, possessing 

 only seven out of seventy-five British species, or one-eleventh, while of Nudibranchiata 

 we have twenty-eight out of one hundred, or more than one-fourth. — C. C. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 November 4, 1861. — J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors: — 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. xi. ; presented by the Society. 

 'The Zoologist' for November; by the Editor. 'Notice of Blackwall's Spiders of 

 Great Britain and Ireland;' 'On the recent Geologico-Archaeulogical Researches in 

 Denmark;' by John Lubbock, Esq., F.R.S. ; by the Author. 'Journal of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. xi. No. 21 ; by the Society. 'The Journal of 

 the Society of Arts' for October; by the Society. 'The Athenaeum' for September 

 and October; by the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Vol. x. ; 

 by H. T. Stainton, Esq. ' Catalogue Methodique des Lepidopleres d'Europe pouvant 

 etre employe comme Etiquettes pour le Classcraent des Collections;' by M. Dey- 

 rolle. 



Election of a Member. 



Sighor Antonio de Lacerda, of Bahia, Brazil, was elected a Member of the 

 Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Kirby exhibited a large number of North American Lepidoptera, and 

 remarked on the close resemblance between many of the species and those found in 

 Europe. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a female variety of Colias Edusa, destitute of the usual 

 orange spots in the dark border ol the wings. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a box of insects collected in Japan by Mr. Fortune, and 

 observed it was the first collection from that country he had had the pleasure of ex- 

 hibiting ; it contained fine examples of the rare and singular Damaster Blaptoides, 

 and numerous other interesting Coleoptera, as well as two apparently new species of 

 Papilio. 



