ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE. 1S5 



preceding year, denied those allegations contained in the lettei' 

 which referred to him. The Society came unanimously to the 

 conclusion, that the charges in M. Guerin's letter were wholly 

 unfounded. M. Guerin's resignation of membership was ac- 

 cepted. 



M. FeistiiAiMel communicated to the Society some par- 

 ticulars respecting the death of M. Picard, which he had 

 announced at the last sitting. Most of its members having 

 been personally acquainted with M. Picard, and considering 

 that this young traveller had fallen a victim to his devotion to 

 the science of Entomology, the Society engaged M. Feisthamel 

 to draw up a necrological notice on this subject. 



M. AuDOum communicated to the Society that M. de Theis 

 being charged with the Consulship of Wallachia, he would not 

 be able, for a considerable time, to be present at their sittings; 

 but he offered to the Society his services in the country in 

 which he was about to reside. 



M. Amyot acquainted the Society with the publication of 

 the translation of a Chinese work on the mode of cultivating 

 the Silkworm ; this translation, he said, had been made by direc- 

 tion of the Minister of Trade, and copies would be distributed 

 to the various public societies. M. Amyot hoped the Presi- 

 dent would apply for a copy. 



M. AuDouiN presented to the Society two specimens of a 

 remarkable Crustacea, which much resembled the Argulus 

 foUaceus of Jurine, but differed from that insect in wanting 

 the breathing apparatus attached to the anterior feet, and also 

 in its size, exceeding a centimeter and a half in length. This 

 Crustacea had been found in Cayenne, by M. Lacordaire ; it is 

 parasitical on a fish called Aymara, much esteemed as an 

 article of food, and found in all the rivers of that country. 

 M. Audouin described the insect, and considered it the type of 

 a new genus, to which he proposed the name Dolops. The 

 species he wished to dedicate to M, Lacordaire, and therefore 

 called it Dolops hacordalrel, 



M. DupoNCHEL read the Report of the Committee chosen 

 at the preceding sitting, to draw up regulations on the subject 

 of the library, and the duties of the curator. The consider- 

 ation of this Report was deferred till the next sitting. 



M. DupoNCiiEL, in his own name and that of M. Pierret, 

 read a report on a paper by M. Desjardins on a species of 



