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Entomological Society. 



February 7, 1859. — Dr. Gray, President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to he presented to the 

 donors: — 'An acccentuated List of the British Lepidoptera, with hints on the derivation 

 of the names,' published and presented by the Entomological Societies of Oxford and 

 Cambridge. ' List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the 

 British Museum,' by Francis Walker, F.L.S., &c, Part xvi., Deltoides ; by the Author. 

 ' Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' vol. iii. No. 2 ; by the Society. 

 ' The Zoologist ' for February ; by the Editor. * The Journal of the Society of Arts ' 

 for January ; by the Society. ' The Literary Gazette ' for January ; by the Editor. 

 ' The Athenaeum ' for January ; by the Editor. *A Manual of British Butterflies and 

 Moths, No. 25 ; ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 1 19— 122 ; by H.T. 

 Stainton, Esq. * Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club,' vol. iv. No. 2; 

 by the Club. * Catalogue of Hispidae in the Collection of the British Museum,' by 

 Joseph S. Baly, M.E.S., &c, Part I.; by the Author. * Stettiner Entomologische 

 Zeitung,' Nos. 10— 12, for 1858 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Nomination of Vice-Presidents. 

 The President nominated Messrs. F. Smith, H. T. Stainton and G. R. Walerhouse 

 Vice-Presidents for the year. 



Election of a Member. 

 Godfrey Howitt, Esq., M.D. of Melbourne, Victoria, was balloted for and elected 

 a Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a box of insects received from Mr. Bates, containing a beau- 

 tiful series of Micro-Lepidoptera from the Upper Amazon ; and some fine Coleoptera 

 taken by Mr. A. R. Wallace in Amboina, amongst which were Euchirus longimanus, 

 some new and beautiful species of Bupvestidae and Anthribidae, a magnificent new species 

 of Batocera, and a fine Prionus also new to Science, 



Mr. Pascoe has furnished the following diagnoses of two fine longicorns in this 

 Collection : — 



Monohammus Grayii. M. aterrimus ; prothorace antice, elytrisque fasciis quatuor, 

 et macula basali hirtis, ochraceis, his chalybeo-atris, nitidis, parce punctatis. 

 Long. 13 lin. 



Dixi in hon. J. E. Gray, Ph.D., Ent. Soc. Lend. Prseses., &c, &c. 



Agnia fasciata. — A. aterrima ; elytris parce punctatis, fasciis quatuor hirtis, 



ochraceis. Long. 9 lin. 

 Precedenti facie sirailliraa, sed Agnia, Newm., genus bene distinctum, pertinet. 



Mr. Janson exhibited a series of Symbiotes latus, Redtenbacher [Faun. Austr. 1st ed. 

 198, 184 (1849), 2nd ed. 371, 382 (1857), Gerstaecker, Mon. Endom. 400, 1 (1858)] 

 illustrating the variations in size and colour to which this species is subject. These 

 specimens were captured by himself, within the London district, on the 30th of June, 

 J4th of July, and on the 8th and 29th of August, 1858, and, as previously stated, in 

 localities upwards of a mile apart. He remarked that he had experienced no difficulty 



