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new to our lists, but from the fact that some of these insects had only hitherto been 

 found in the Mediterranean or at Maderia. The principal species exhibited were 



1. Diasemia Ramburialis, of which Mr. Boyd had only taken a single specimen ; 

 this species was first detected in the Island of Corsica. 



2. Gelechia leiicomelanella^ a conspicuous bk\ck and while species, hitherto known 

 only as a native of Central Europe, bred from Silene mariiima. 



3. Gelechia Cornubice, n. s. (or a variety of Solutella) ; this was not scarce among 

 the Cornish heath {Erica vagans). 



4. Gelechia Ocellatella, n. s., bred from Beta maritima ; this species had been 

 obtained in Maderia by Mr. Wollaston. 



5. Glijphipteryx schoenicolella, n. s., allied to G. oculatella ; these were bred from 

 the heads of Schoenus nigricans. 



6. A series of Elachista (riserialella and dispunclella, clearly showing that those 

 two species were merely forms of one and the same. 



Mr. A. F. Sbeppard exhibited, on behalf of Mr. C. S. Gregson, specimens 

 of Peronea Potentillana, Cooke, recently described as a distinct species in the 

 * Zoologist'; Mr. Sbeppard expressed his opinion that the insects in question were 

 varieties of P. Schalleiiana. 



Mr. Edleston sent for exhibition a series of specimens, from which it was evident 

 that the so-called species is a mere variety. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some beautiful butterflies taken by Mr. Wallace in Celebes, 

 amongst which were both sexes of Ornilhoptera Remus and O. Haliphron, Papilio 

 Androcles, and two undescribed species of that genus, some fine Pierida?, &c. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two bred specimens of Xanthia gilvago, and an example of 

 Agrolis saucia, in most perfect condition, which was infested by hundreds of a small 

 Acarus, of a species unknown to the Members present. 



Dr. Knaggs exhibited some Noctua?, &c. lately taken at Camden Town, observing 

 that the occurrence of such species close to the metropolis was interesting ; they 

 included Agrotis saucia, A. corticea, and A. ravida, Gortyna micacea, Eudorea Cem- 

 bra?, &c. ; he also exhibited some larva) of a species of Dynastes, from Demerara, pre- 

 served in spirits, and a small female of a Termes from the same locality. 



Mr. Stevens stated that he has recently been informed by a letter from Mr. H. W. 

 Bates, that the small pale Scarites taken by him on the Amazons, and briefly charac- 

 terized by Mr. Westwood, at the February Meeting of the Society, by the name of 

 Solenogenys fssda, was an inhabitant of the nests of white ants. 



Mr. Robinson exhibited specimens of Lamophlteus Clematidis, found in the stems 

 of the Clematis Vitalba, near Gravesend. 



Mr. PifFard exhibited a collection of insects, consisting chiefly of Coleoptera and 

 Lepidoptera, which he had recently made in Nova Scotia and the vicinity of Demerara 

 River. 



Memoirs of the Entomological Society of the Netherlands, 



Mr. Westwood called attention to the recently published ' Memoirs of the 

 Entomoloi»ical Society of the Netherlands,' as containing many beautiful figures and 

 valuable papers ; he observed that the long illness and subsequent death of Dr. De 

 Ilaan had caused the collections at the Leyden Museum to be much neglected ; he 

 was, however, happy to say that his successor, Mr. S, C. Snellen van Vollenhoven, 



