LIKNBAN gOCIETY OF LOSDON. 



3. " Catalogue of the Dipterous Insects collected by Mr. Wal- 

 lace in "Waigiou, Mysol, and North Cerara, with descriptions of 

 new Species ;" by Prancis Walker, Esq., F.L.S. (See ' Zoological 

 Proceedings,' vol. .) 



February 19, 1863. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The Eev. S. Owen Grlenie and Charles Moore, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows. 



The following Paper was read, viz. : — 



" On the Structure and Nature of the Dracunculus, or Guinea- 

 worm ;" by H. Charlton Bastian, Esq., M.A., M.E.C.S., &c. Com- 

 municated by George Busk, Esq., F.B».S., Sec. L.S.,i &c. (See 

 * Transactions,' vol. xxiv. part 2.) 



March 5, 1863. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. W. Carmichael M'^Intosh was elected a FeUow. 



General Sir J. B. Hearsey, K.C.B., exhibited a box of OceUated 

 Moths from his cabinet of Indian Insects. 



Sir "W. J. Hooker, F.R.S. & L.S., exhibited a fasciculus of Euro- 

 pean Cichoracece, named and prepared by Dr. Schulz-Bipontinus. 



Mr. Andrew Murray, F.L.S., exhibited the cones of two sup- 

 posed new species of Piae from the Rocky Mountains, and made 

 some observations upon them. 



The following Papers were read, viz. : — 



1. "Notes on the Geographical Disti'ibution of the Aculeate 

 Rymenoptera collected by Mr. A. E. Wallace in the Eastern 

 Archipelago;" by Frederick Smith, Esq., Assistant in the Zoolo- 

 gical Department of the British Museum. Communicated by W. 

 W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.L.S. (See ' Zoological Proceed- 

 ings,' vol. vii.) 



