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Fauna of Amoy. 



Election of a Member. 



George Feniiing, Esq., of Lloyd's, London, was balloted for and elected a Member 

 of the Society. 



Exhibitions, 



Mr. Knaggs exhibited a box of beautiful Lepidoptera and other orders of insects 

 from Demerara. 



Mr.Waring exhibited a fine male specimen of Notodonta bicolora, a species hitherto 

 unrecorded as British, taken by Mr. Bouchard, in July last, isear Killarney. 



Mr. Hunter exhibited fine specimens of Trochilium Chrysidiformis and Spilodes 

 palealis, taken near Folkestone. 



Dr. Wallace exhibited the following insects, taken in the Isle of Wight this season, 

 viz.^ Micra ostrina (two specimens), a species hitherto recorded as British on the 

 authority of a single example, taken many years since, by the late Captain Blomer, near 

 Bideford ; fine specimens of Spilodes silacealis; a Nola, apparently distinct from the 

 known British species ; and a fine series (including both sexes) of Piiibalapteryx gera- 

 niaria, amongst which, he observed, were specimens similar to those recently recorded 

 in this country as P. fluviata. 



Mr. Westwood read a letter from Herr Nietner, received by Mr. Spence, recording 

 the discovery, in Ceylon, of a Strepsipterous insect, parasitic on an ant. Mr. West- 

 wood exhibited drawings, and read a description of the species, drawn up from the 

 mutilated examples which accompanied Herr Nietner's letter, proposing for it the name 

 of Myrmecolax Nietneri. 



Mr. Walker read a paper on * Undescribed Neuroptera in the Collection of W. W. 

 Saunders, Esq.' — E, 



A few Remarks on the Fauna of Amoy. 

 By Robert Swinhoe, Esq., of H.B.M. Consulate, Amoy.* 



I WOULD beg to offer for your consideration a few remarks on the 

 Fauna of the island on which our lot is at present cast; for though 

 Zoology is not much studied as a science, yet we are often willing to 

 learn of the peculiarities and economy of creatures that breathe the 

 same air as ourselves, and are dependent on the same natural 

 resources for existence. 



Who has not wondered at the bare hills of Amoy, at the first 

 glimpse he obtains on entering the harbour, and, seeing the great 

 boulders of rock rise one above the other in endless confusion, 

 thought to himself with a shudder, Can animal life be there ? But 



Head before the Literary and Scientific Society of Amoy, November 17, 1857, 

 and communicated by H. Stevenson, Esq. 



