ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 87 



Art. X. — Proceedings of the Entomological Club. 



Sitting of the 21sr of September, 1837. 



Mr. Newman in the Chair. 



The following donations were announced, and the thanks of 

 the Club voted to the respective donors : — 



Mr. W. C. Hewitson, of Derby. Some specimens of 

 hymenopterous insects, illustrative of a paper sent for publi- 

 cation in the Entomological Magazine. 



Mr. W. Imeson, of Woodside near Sydney. A collection 

 of insects of all classes, made by himself in that neighbourhood. 

 Among these there were several hundred fine Coleoptera, 

 many of them entirely new to entomology. 



Mr. Henry Doubleday, of Epping. A fine assortment 

 of British Lepidoptera, collected by himself at Epping during 

 the present summer, purposely for the Entomological Club. 

 Also a series of Sympetrum flamolatum. Mr. Doubleday 

 mentions the occurrence of this formerly rare species of Libellu- 

 liclcv in the utmost profusion, during the present summer, in a 

 part of Epping forest where he has collected for a number of 

 years without observing it. 



Mr. Robert Foster, of London. Several thousand in- 

 sects, collected by himself in the northern part of the United 

 States of North America, principally at Trenton Falls, about 

 200 miles north of New York. This collection was on the 

 table ; and a similarity between the species and those of Britain 

 was observable. Mr. Stephens gave it as his opinion that the 

 species were not identical, comparing the individuals with 

 British ones, and pointing out trivial characters of difference 

 in various butterflies, as Phlaas^ Atalanta, Antiojja, &c. In 

 the Coleoptera the same near similarity existed ; in Cicindela, 

 and the following genera of Carahites, it would require the most 

 careful descriptive definition to distinguish the species from 

 those of common occurrence in Britain : — Carabus, Brachinus, 

 Chlamius, Pogonus, Calathus, Anchomemis, Agonum, Poecillus, 

 Argutor Omaseus, Opkonus, Steropus, Platysma, Pterostichus, 

 Amara, HarpaluSi StenolopJms, Trechus, Epapkius, Peryphus, 

 and Philocthus. 



Mr. Samuel ALiiXANDER Burlingham, of Worcester. A 

 second donation of twenty pair of Clostera reclusa. Upwards 



