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Entomological Society. 



Entomological Society. 

 October 6, 1862.- F. P. Pascoe, V.P., in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 respective donors : — 1 Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. xii. No. 51 ; presented 

 by the Society. ' The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' Vol. 

 xxiii. No. 49 ; by the Society. * The Zoologist' for October ; by the Editor. ' The 

 Intellectual Observer' for September and October; by the Publishers, Messrs. Groom- 

 bridge & Sons. « Exotic Butterflies,' Part XL1V. ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. * The 

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

 September ; by the Editor. 'The Journal of Entomology, descriptive and geographi- 

 cal,' No. 6 ; by the Proprietors. And the addition to the Library, by purchase, of the 

 ' Genera des Coleopteres d'Europe,' Livraisons 108 a 111, was also announced. 



Election of New Member. 

 Thomas Edward Hughes, Esq., of Wall field, Reigate, was ballotted for and 

 elected a Member of the Society. 



Alteration of the Bye- Laws. 

 A copy of the Bye-Laws of the Society, embodying 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 altera- 

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



Exhibitions, Sfc. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited Adelops Wollastoni, of which he had recently captured up- 

 wards of a hundred specimens at Hammersmith, chiefly under rhubarb plants. 



Sir John Hearsey exhibited numerous Homoptera, principally Cicada;, collected 

 by himself in Northern India. 



Mr. Desvignes exhibited a remarkable variety of Cynthia Cardui, taken on the 

 sands at Margate, at the end of July or beginning of August last. The captor, Mr. 

 Henry L. Stretton, of Forest School, Walthamstow, saw at the same time another spe- 

 cimen, which he considered to be the mate of the captured one ; the latter was very 

 similar to, but even more abnormal than, the variety figured in Westwood and 

 Humphrey's ' British Butterflies'' 



Mr. C. Fenn exhibited a Lepidopterous insect, apparently of the genus Aspilates, 

 which was taken near Black Gang, in the Isle of Wight, at the end of August last, in 

 company with specimens of Aspilates citraria. It was considered by most of the 

 Lepidopterists present to be a variety of A. citraria, and was remarkable for its ex- 

 tremely glossy and silken appearance, the absence of marking on the upper side, and 

 the blackness of the under side of the wings. 



Mr. F. Moore exhibited a specimen of the "Kolisurra" silkworm moth of the 

 Deccan (Antheraea Paphia, var.), which had emerged from the pupa in this country 

 on the 15th of September last. He also exhibited a specimen of Epicopeia Polydora, 

 Westw., and a drawing of the larva. The imago had emerged on the 18th of August 

 last. Both the pupa and the drawing of the larva had been received from Captain T. 



