ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 515 



- The commencement of a monograph on the Coleopterous 



genus Popillia, by Mr. Newman, was read. 



Sitting of the 5th June, 1838. 

 J. F. Stephens, Esq. in the Chair. 



• Donations of entomological books and of insects were an- 

 nounced, including a valuable collection of British Chalcididce, 

 by Mr. Walker, and a specimen of Stylops Dalii, by Mr. 

 Thwaites, by whom a number of this remarkable parasite had 

 been recently captured. 



Mr. Johnstone presented a plate illustrating the natural 

 history of the cane-fly, Delphax saccharivora. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited drawings of several remarkable 

 exotic insects, as well as others illustrative of the natural history 

 of the Nematus gallicola, Balaninus salicivorus, and FMloplius 

 nemati, all of which had been traced by him through their 

 different states. He also exhibited a living specimen of the 

 rare Lyda inanita, together with the remarkable nest of its 

 larva, which consists of portions of rose leaves arranged in a 

 spiral coil, forming a tube which the insect bears about with it. 



Mr. Shuck ARD mentioned the occurrence of Strepsiptsra in 

 the bodies of a wasp from North America, and an Ammophila 

 from Gambia. 



Rev. F. W. Hope made some observations on a case in 

 which a brood of insects had been discharged from a tumour in 

 the jaw of an old and infirm person in Lincolnshire. 



Collections of insects fx'om Sierra Leone and India were 

 exhibited by Dr. Canter and Mr. Strachan. 



The commencement of a memoir by Mr. Babington was read, 

 containing descriptions of the BijUscidce collected by Mr. 

 Darwin during his voyage. 



Sitting of the 2d July, 1838. 



J. F. Stephens, Esq. in the Chair. 



Several specimens were exhibited from the collection of the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope, which presented instances of insectal and 

 vegetable parasitism. From one of these individuals, a species 

 of the South American genus Acantliocephalus, numerous very 

 long and slender filaments, much longer than the entire insects, 



