Botanical Society of London. *J\ 



Description of a new British genus of Apterous insect. By J. O. 

 Westwood, F.L.S., &c. 



The insect described in this paper had been already brought before 

 the Society, (see Journal of Proceedings, November 2nd, 1840) 

 when it was regarded by Mr. Westwood as an undeveloped Myria- 

 podous insect. The researches of Mr. Newport upon the develop- 

 ment of the Myriapoda, subsequently published, having shown the in- 

 correctness of this opinion, Mr. Westwood refers the insect to the 

 order Thysanura, (from all of which it differs generically) under the 

 name of 



Campodea, W. Corpus elongatum parallelum, depressum, mollius- 



culum apterum \Z-annulatum. Caput obovatum horizontal. An- 



tennce 2 elongated multiarticular, submoniliformes. Os inferum 



mandibulis minutis planis latis 4-dentatis. Prothorax brevis, 



meso- et metathoraoc majores (equates. Pedes 6, elongati, cursoriL 



Abdomen segmentis subtus utrinque appendiculo minuto apiceque 



setis duabus elongatis setosis instructum. 



Campodea staphylinus, W. Alba, mollissima, agilis, antennis arti- 



culis ultra 20 instructis. Long. corp. lin. 2^. Inhabits damp 



garden earth. Hammersmith, October 2, 1840. July 12, 1842. 



Catalogue of the entomological collections, with notes on the 



habits of the species found in Chusan and the adjacent parts. By 



Dr. Cantor. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



July 1, 1842.— J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Numerous donations of plants, specimens of woods, &c, were an- 

 nounced, many of them purchased at the sale of the botanical mu- 

 seum of the late A. B. Lambert, Esq., and presented by some of the 

 members. Mr. Arthur Henfrey (Curator) presented a monstrous 

 specimen of Scrophularia aquatica, found by him on 30th June last 

 on an island in the Thames above Teddington. The plant was about 

 three feet high, having a flat riband-like stem, rather more than 

 half an inch broad and scarcely an eighth thick. The flower- stalks 

 grew chiefly out of the flat surfaces, nearly perpendicular to them, 

 a very few only being at the edges and not in any regular order. 

 These flowering- stalks extended over about eighteen inches of the 

 stem, being about forty in number, exclusive of a very dense cluster 

 at the summit of the plant. The flowers all appeared perfect, and 

 the peculiarity of growth seemed to have resulted from a natural 

 grafting of two plants. 



Mr. T. Sansom (Librarian) exhibited a monstrous specimen of 

 Cynoglossum omphalotes (Linn.), in which three peduncles were 

 united longitudinally from the base to the extremity, terminated by 

 two calyces ; the first being 6-partite, bearing a corolla of six seg- 

 ments, five stamens, one pistil, and four seeds. The second 9-partite, 

 formed from the uniting of two calyces respectively 4- and 5-partite, 

 bearing two distinct petals placed side by side, each 5-lobed, and 

 each with five stamens, and each containing one pistil and a set of 

 four seeds. 



