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locality of the Psittacus erithacus, from which it differs in its much 

 darker tints of colouring, and the tail-feathers terminating in a point. 



Plyctolopiius citrino-cristatus. PL albus, crista citrind, plu- 



mis auricularibus sulpkureo leviter tinctis. 

 In vivario/Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 About the size of PI. sulphurous. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



January 2, 1843. — W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a living specimen of Odacantha melanura, 

 recently captured in the Hammersmith marshes. 



The President exhibited some wheat, recently imported from India, 

 greatly infested with Calandra granaria, upon which he made some 

 observations in reference to the very great advantages which would 

 result to the Indian agriculturists in case the grain could be imported 

 into Europe free from the weevil : whereupon Mr. Edward Double- 

 day stated, that in North America the Indian corn is attacked by a 

 small beetle, belonging to the family Engidce, within a very few months 

 after it is full-grown. 



Mr. Westwood read a notice of a new genus and species of British 

 Homopterous insects belonging to the family Aphidm, found in dif- 

 ferent stages of growth at the roots of Jerusalem artichokes. They 

 are of a broad ovate form, destitute of wings, and of a white or dirty 

 whitish colour ; their hind feet are singularly inserted quite at the 

 sides of the body, whereby the insect is able to throw them upwards 

 and backwards and forwards ; the hind tarsi are very long and appa- 

 rently 1- jointed; the rostrum is elongated; the antennas 6-jointed ; 

 the abdomen destitute of the saccharine tubercles. Mr. Westwood 

 proposes to name it Rhizobius Helianthemi, it not being previously 

 described by Burmeister or Hartig. 



Mr. Westwood also read an extract from a letter from M. Guerin 

 Meneville, containing a new distribution of the species of the genus 

 Rhipicera, since published in the * Species et Iconographie generique 

 des Insectes.' 



February 6. — George Newport, Esq. (who had been elected Presi- 

 dent at the Anniversary on the 23rd of January), in the Chair. 



The President read a notice of the offer of two prizes of 51. 5s. each 

 by the Rev. F. W. Hope, for the best memoir on insects injurious 

 to market gardens, and for a complete bibliographical synopsis of 

 entomological works published in this country. 



Mr. Longley exhibited a Gynandromorphous specimen of the com- 

 mon Vapourer Moth (Orgyia antiqua). 



The President having communicated to W. W. Saunders, Esq., 

 the late President of the Society, the request proposed at the Anni- 

 versary Meeting, that he would deliver his Anniversary Address this 

 evening, Mr. Saunders delivered the same : whereupon a vote of 

 thanks was unanimously passed to him, accompanied with a request 



