SSi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The Editor. Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicura, Nos. 

 55 and 57. 



The Entomological Society of France. Annales of 

 that Society, Part III. 1837. 



The Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow. 

 Bulletin of that Society, Part V. 1837. 



The Author. Description de quelques Coleopteres Nou- 

 veaux, par B. Zoubkoff. 



A letter from Mr. Templeton addressed to the Secretary was 

 read, describing at great length and minuteness, a new Strep- 

 sipterous insect, reared by the writer from a Sphex at Rio 

 Janeiro, and for which he proposed the name of Xenos West- 

 U'oodii. The description was accompanied by detailed drawings. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope took occasion to remark on the 

 little attention that had hitherto been paid to the geographical 

 distribution of insects, even among the best authors. In hopes 

 of drawing attention to the subject, he had prepared a number 

 of Charts of the World, on Mercator's plan, of elephant size ; 

 and he was anxious to induce various Entomologists to take 

 up one or more Orders according to their particular study, and 

 work them out. 



A description by Mr. Westwood of a new Paussus, in 

 Mr. Downes' collection, exhibited at the last Meeting, was 

 communicated, with drawings. The Rev. F.W.Hope expressed 

 an opinion that it was only the other sex of a species before 

 described. 



The first part of a Paper entitled Rough Notes on the 

 Habits and Manners of some of the British Brachelytra, by 

 Mr. Holme, was read. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited a splendid specimen of 

 Ui'ania, taken at sea in the Mozambique Channel. 



Mr. Raddon produced a piece of what he believed to be 

 GumCopal — having obtained it as such from an eminent house 

 in the trade at Bristol — containing several insects imbedded in 

 its substance. He was induced to bring it to the Society for 

 the sake of information, from a statement of the Rev. F. W. 

 Hope's, that it was not in Copal, but always in Anime that 

 insects were found. The Rev. F. W. Hope, after examining 

 the specimen, had no hesitation in pronouncing it to be Anime 

 of the third or fourth year's growth, and not Copal. The 

 forms of the insects themselves likewise indicated African or 



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