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Art. IX. — Proceedings of the Entomological Society of France, 



Sitting of the 7th of September, 183G. 



M. DupoNCHEL in the Chair. 



The following list of donations was announced : — 



M. Marino de Sans. Inauguration de I'Academie des 

 Sciences naturelles et des Arts de Barcelonne. 



M. A. Villa. Sulla pioggio animale de Castelvecchio, 

 notizie ulteriori. 



M. Mequignon. Supplement k I'Histoire naturelle des 

 Lepidopteres, Par M. Duponchel. 6" livraison. 



The Academy. Verhandlungen derkk. Landswirthschafts- 

 Gesellschaft in Wien. 



M. Victor de Motchoulski. Notice sur le genre Bryaxis. 



M. H. Lucas. Description d'une Atte nouvelle. 



The Ro!fAL Society of London. Nos. 17 and 18 of 

 the Proceedings of that Society. 



The Academy of Science at Berlin. Conipte rendu 

 des travaux de I'Academie des Sciences de Berlin. January 

 to April, 1836. 



The Academy. Abhandlungen der Kceniglichen Academic 

 der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. )2 vols. 1832 and 1834. 



M. Gervais communicated to the Society that he had pro- 

 cured in abundance, in hot-houses of the Museum, a species of 

 lulus, living in the tan, which he believed to be undescribed, and 

 proposed to name lulus lucifugus. The species concealed itself 

 entirely during the day, either in the tan or the mould, and only 

 appeared at night. He thus described it: — somewhat less than 

 I. terrestris ; the body, more particularly its anterior portion, 

 thicker than in that species ; colour whitish, with the dorsal 

 vessel very apparent ; the lateral portion of each segment with 

 a comma-shaped red spot, into which the lateral pores open ; 

 eyes very black ; the hook of the penultimate segment obtuse, 

 and not extending beyond the anus. The lateral pores secrete 

 a reddish liquid, which smells precisely like nitrous acid. M. 

 Gervais has endeavoured to ascertain the nature of this liquid, 

 and he has found that it is not an alkali, nor yet an acid, which 

 might have been imagined from its odour. He has preserved 



