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Rh Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the donors.

Mr. Richard S. Standen, of Holmwood Lodge, Surbiton, and Mr. T.W. Wonfor, of 38, Buckingham Place, Brighton, were ballotted for and elected Members.

Mr. Jeuner Weir exhibited three specimens of an Atypus taken on a bank near Lewes; they were stated to erect a pile of small pieces of chalk in front of their burrows. Mr. Weir also exhibited a remarkable spider from Madagascar, and a small living spider (Philodromus), marked and coloured in imitation of lichen, which he had beaten out of trees in the New Forest.

Sir Sidney Saunders stated that the Atypus was A. Sulzeri, Koch.

Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a small collection of dragon-flies of the genus Euthore, in illustration of a paper entitled "Calopterygina collected by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador and Bolivia." The collection contained a fine series of both sexes of a new species, Euthore mirabilis.

Mr. Meldola exhibited a remarkable specimen of Leucania conigera taken at Willesden. The colour and markings of the fore wings were reproduced on the lower half of the left hind wing.

Mr. Meldola then read some extracts from a letter from Dr. Fritz Miiller to Mr. Charles Darwin, dated from Santa Caterina, Brazil, 27th November, 1877.

The Secretary called the attention of the members to the approaching International Entomological Exhibition to be held at the Royal Westminster Aquarium in March. He also exhibited, on behalf of Capt. Elwes (who was present as a visitor), a series of coloured illustrations of butterflies, printed from nature by a new process invented by Dr. Seriziat, of Collioure (Pyrenees Orientales), France. The inventor states that the "colouring matter is fixed by means of a special adhesive and a press; the bodies are painted in water-colours after nature."

Mr. G.C. Champion exhibited twelve species of the genus C'etonia, taken by Mr. J.J. Walker, of H.M.S. 'Swiftsure,' at Besika Bay, Salonica, Piraeus, and other Mediterranean localities. He also exhibited a specimen of Anthicus bimaculatus, a rare British beetle, taken near New Brighton by Mr. J.T. Harris, of Burton-on-Trent.

Mr. J.W. May exhibited a specimen of Carabus intricatus taken at Fulham.

Mr. H. Goss called attention to the occurrence of sexual dimorphism iu Erebia Medea, and exhibited specimens of both forms of the female. He stated that he had obtained specimens of both forms nearly every year for the last sixteen years from Silverdale, Lancashire, and that one form was quite as common as the other. The principal difference between the two forms consisted in the colouring of the discal band. In one form, which Mr. Goss believed to be the typical form, the discal band was bluish ash-