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[July; 1880. 
on April 2nd, 1879. Mr. Rothncy found the Dahlia very attractive to almost all 
kinds of insects which never suffered from any narcotic or otherwise injurious 
effects. 
Mr. Cameron communicated “Notes on the coloration and development of 
insects.” 
Professor Westwood communicated “Notes on gynandromorphous examples of 
C irrochroa Aoris, an Indian butterfly, and on Cetonia aurata and JProtaclia Bensoni." 
5th May, 1880. — H. T. Stainton, Esq., E.R.S., &c., in the Chair. 
Mr. Peter Inchbald, of Hovingham, Yorkshire, formerly a Member, was 
re-elected. 
Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a pale variety of Kyssia hispid aria, g , recently taken 
at light at Cheshunt Station. 
Mr. Walhouse exhibited sundry Geodephagous Coleoptera, found at a great 
altitude in India. 
Mr. Distant exhibited a long scries of Plyelus Goudoti from Madagascar (allied 
to our common Cuckoo-spit insect), illustrating the great variation that exists (as 
in Pt. spumaria) . The larva was known to emit a frothy secretion, and in such 
quantities, that it dropped from the trees like rain. 
Mr. Billups exhibited two living examples of Carahus auratus, found in the 
Borough Market, London, and believed to have been imported from Belgium. 
Mr. Pascoe said he had lately heard it asserted that a Sphinx with a haustellum 
sufficiently long to reach the nectary of Anagreecum sesquipedale of Madagascar, had 
been recently discovered, and asked for confirmation of this. No Member present 
was able to confirm the statement. 
Miss E. A. Ormerod, in presenting a copy of the “ Cobliam Journals,” drawn up 
from observations on the correlation of meteorological influences with the condition of 
animal and vegetable life, made by Miss Molesworth at Cobliam, Surrey, over a 
period of about 44 years (1825 — 1850), remarked on the necessity of combined action 
in making public similar observations in future. 
2nd June, 1880. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., &c., President, in the 
Chair. 
Miss G-. Ormerod, of Isleworth, and Mr. H. Lufton, of Chapel Allerton, Leeds, 
were elected Members. 
Mr. Walhouse exhibited a collection of moths formed by himself at Mangalore, 
on the Malabar coast. 
Mr. Finzi exhibited (on behalf of Mr. Lowrey) an example of Arctia fuliginosa, 
in which one antenna was congenitally absent. The President stated that he had 
occasionally bred ants with only one antenna, and one example with no antennae, 
this latter being helpless when out of the nest. 
The President exhibited an Australian ant, allied to Camponotus, remarkable 
for having its abdomen enormously distended (resembling that of a gravid queen 
Termite), so that it was little else than an animated lioney-bag. In this it was 
analogous to another (American) species forming the genus Myrmecocyslus of 
Wesmael. 
The Rev. H. S. Gorham communicated the concluding part of his “ Materials 
for a Revision of the Lampyridce.” 
