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Salvin, E. Saunders, A. E. Wallace, and Wormald, were elected Members o 
Council ; and Mr. A. E. Wallace (President), Mr. S. Stevens (Treasurer), Messr.. 
J. W. Dunning and E. McLachlan (-Secretaries), and Mr. E. W. Janson (Librariac) 
as Officers. Mr. Dunning read the report of the Council and (in the absence o 
Mr. Bates) the President's Address. The proceedings terminated with the nm 
vote of thanks to the outgoing Council and Officers. 
February 7th, 1870.-A. E. Wallace, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 
It was announced that the Council offered two Prizes of the value of fn 
Guineas each to authors (whether members of the Society or not) of Essays o! 
Memoirs, of sufficient merit, and drawn up from personal observation, on tli 
anatomy or oeconomy of any insect, or group of insects— the Essays to be sent ii 
before the end of November, 1870. 
Mr. Bond exhibited four examples of Satyrus Semele in which the colonr 
peculiar to each sex were combined, although the individuals were 
either male or 
Professor Westwood exhibited drawings of Anthocaris cardamines, Lycmt 
Adonis, &c., presenting parallel peculiarities to those exhibited by Mr. Bond. 
Mr. Bond also exhibited various cocoons of Bomhyx Yama-Mai and B. Pmj 
from various countries (on behalf of Dr. Wallace). 
Mr. Stainton exhibited a box of Continental Micro- Lepidoptera, of which eaci 
example was carefully labelled with respect to locality, date, food-plant (if bred),k 
this being the plan he adopted throughout his collection ; and he suggested it m 
the only perfect plan, inasmuch as numbers referring to a register, though of equj 
value while a collection was intact, were comparatively useless if it were dispersec 
Mr. Bond exhibited more examples of Acridium peregrinum from Plymout! 
(not Falmouth as recorded in our last). 
Mr. Smith exhibited specimens of L. migratoria from Scotland, and remarkei 
on the differences between them and L. Christii. 
Mr. Janson exhibited (for Mr. Crotch) PUlonthus cicafricosus of Erichson, m 
to this country, taken by Mr. Moncreaff at Portsea; a.\so Dyschirius angustatv. 
Hydroporus unistriatiis, and H. minuUssimus, all rare or local British species. 
Major Parry read the concluding part of his paper intituled " A revised Cats 
logue of the Lucanoid Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species, &c. ;" am 
exhibited a specimen of Nicagus obscurus, a species of doubtful location. 
The Secretary communicated some notes by Mr. Trimen on the habits o 
species of Paussidce at the Cape of Good Hope. 
Mr. Butler read notes on the species of Gharaxes of the Eeise der Novara 
with descriptions of new species. 
Mr. McLachlan placed before the meeting the MS. of the first part of thi 
Catalogue of British Insects proposed to be published by the Society. This par 
comprised the Neuroptera in the Linnean sense (consisting of Psocidce, Perliak 
Ephemeridce, Odonata, Planipennia, and Trichoptera) , and numbered, in all, abou 
328 species. The E^hemm-idw had been furnished by the Eev. A. E. Eaton ; th( 
Odonata were compiled from the works of De Selys & Hagen ; the others (wit! 
the exception of the PerlidcB, which were in a very imperfect condition) from Mr 
McLachlau's various Monographs, with additions and corrections. 
