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Entomological Society, 



The following works were announced as having been recently purchased for the 

 Society's Library : — Olivier, ' Entomologie,' 8 Vols. Boisduval and Guenee, 1 Species 

 General des Lepidopteres,' 7 Vols. an<l 7 Fasciculi of Plates. Fabricius, * Systema 

 Antliatorum.' MacLeay, ' Annulosa Javanica,' Part I. Martyn's ' Spiders.' Walcke- 

 naer, ' Faune Parisienne, Insectes,' 2 Vols. ' Zoological Journal,' 5 Vols. Spinola, 

 * Essai Monographique sur les Clerites,' 2 Vols. Guerin-Meneville, ' Iconographie 

 du Regne Animal, Insecles.' Redtenbacher, 1 Fauna Austriaca der Kafer.' 



Election of a Member. 



W. D. Crotch, Esq., Uphill House, Weston-super-Mare, was balloted for and 

 elected a Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Jeakes exhibited a specimen of Arrhenodes maxillosus,OZ»*u., a North- American 

 Curculio of the family Brentidae, but which had been found flying in a garden at 

 Camden Town by Miss Jeakes. 



Mr. Bond exhibited some Lepidoptera taken at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, amongst 

 which were beautiful varieties of Setina irrorella, a series of an apparently new spe- 

 cies of Coleophova, Cochylis flaviciliana, &c. ; he also exhibited a splendid living 

 specimen of Calosoma sycophanta, found on the coast at Freshwater a few days pre- 

 viously, and had since been fed on the larva of Biston hiitarius, of which it devoured 

 three or four full-grown examples daily. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited specimens of Deleaster dichroa, lately taken near London. 



Mr. A. F. Sheppard sent for exhibition two specimens of Erastria venustula, taken 

 near Loughton, Essex. 



Mr. Janson exhibited the following species of Coleoptera, hitherto unrecorded as 

 British, viz., Stenus opticus, Grav., from Mr. Jeakes' collection, taken by Mr. Squire 

 in Horning Fen ; Conosoma pedicularium, Grav., from Holme Fen ; and Scolytus 

 Pruni, Ralz., taken near London. 



Mr. Mitford exhibited a fine series of Psyche fusca, which he had lately bred from 

 the larvae taken near Hampstead ; and a specimen of Carabus intricatus, found near 

 Bath, being a new locality for this fine species. 



Mr. Holdsworth exhibited the nest and eggs of Hydrous piceus, from the aquarium 

 of the Zoological Society, in the Regent's Park. 



Mr. Gorham exhibited specimens of Anchomenus livens, taken near Eltham, in 

 Kent, on sugar placed on trees to attract Noctua?. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited an apparently new species of Phycita, taken near Mickle- 

 ham ; and some beautiful Lepidoptera, chiefly Tineina, sent from Moreton Bay, by 

 Mr. Diggles ; also the drawing of the larva of a species of Gastrophasia, GWn., and 

 the moth reared therefrom. 



Mr. Stevens also exhibited both sexes of the splendid Ornithoptera alluded to by 

 Mr. Wallace in the letter read at the last meeting of the Society; and also both sexes 

 of the beautiful Papilio allied to P. Ulysses, for which Mr. Wallace proposed the 

 specific name of " Telemachus," which had arrived in this country since the last 

 meeting. He observed that the Ornithoptera, although allied to O.Tithonus, DeHaan, 

 was by no means identical with that insect, as had been conjectured by Mr. West- 

 wood, from the description given in Mr. Wallace's letter. 



