37C Zoological Society, 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



February 9, 1841.— William Horton Lloyd, Esq. in the Chair. 



A letter from P. C. Blackett, Esq., dated January 27, 1841, was 

 read. It relates to the parent stock of the domestic Dog (Canisfami- 

 liaris of authors), and gives some account of the habits of the Eu- 

 ropean Wolf. The pups of this animal, it is said, were considered 

 valuable about sixty or seventy years back, and that they were easily 

 domesticated, and became as familiar and attached to their master 

 as the common domesticated Dog. 



A monograph on the genus Nematoptera, by J. O. Westwood, 

 Esq., F.L.S., was read. 



In this monograph numerous new species are added to those 

 already characterized by Dr. Klug and others. The genus Nema- 

 toptera (Nemoptera, Latr.) was placed by its founder, Latreille, in the 

 family Panorpidce, owing to the rostrum being elongated as in that 

 family ; but Mr. Westwood agrees with Drs. Klug and Burmeister, in 

 arranging the species in the Hemerobiidae, since they agree with this 

 family, not only in the structure of the mouth, but also in the ge- 

 neral arrangement of the nervures of the wings. 



Following are the chief characters of the species : — 



Sectio l ma . 

 Alae anticse latissimse ovatse, coloratse, serie duplici vel triplici cellu- 

 larum in area anali. 



Sp. 1. Nematoptera Petiveri. Nem. alls anticis ovatis, pallide 

 flavis ; fasciis quatuor sinuatis ; costa ad basin immaculata ; ma- 

 cula oblonga ante mediant, altera media tertiaque subapicali, ni- 

 gris, punctisque nonnullis versus marginem internum et in discum 

 alee ejusdem coloris. 

 Expans. alar, antic. 2 — 2J unc. Long. alar, postic. 1| — If unc. 

 Syn. The Feather- tailed Smyrna Adderbolt, Petiver, Gazoph. 

 tab.*73. f. 11. 



Phryganea e Moldavia, Linnaeus •, Kongl. Vetensk. Handl. 1747. 

 p. 176— 178. tab. 6. fig. 1. 



Ephemera Coa, Hasselquist, Iter Palsestinum, p. 423. (1757). 

 Panorpa Coa, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Edit. x. Ditto, Edit. xii. vol.ii. 

 p. 915. Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 314. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 208. 

 Panorpa halterata, Fabr. Mantiss. Ins. p. 251. 

 Nemoptera sinuata, Olivier, Enc. M6th. viii. p. 178. Lamarck, 

 Hist. Nat. iv. p. 419. Klug, Monogr. Panorp. p. 13. No. 2. 



Sp. 2. Nematoptera Coquebertii. Nem. alis anticis latissime 

 ovatis, pallidiori-flavescentibus ; fasciis tribus valde sinuatis; costa 

 in areas angustas divisa, singula area linea obscura notata, macula 

 media costali, altera intermedia, Ztiaque versus apicem costee ob- 

 scuris ; disco et basi punctis numerosis nigris ; areaque anali lata 

 duplici serie punctorum et unica strigarum nigrarum. 

 Expans. alar, antic. 1| — If unc. Long. alar, postic. l^unc. 



