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The rest of this pamphlet is occupied by subjects not Entomological, including 

 a complete List of Birds, and quite a number of flowering plants not previously 

 observed. 



One point strikes us as tending to give these local lists more than ordinary 

 value ; this is the evident indications shown of anxiety to obtain the best informa- 

 tion from sjDecialists in each department. We congratulate the Naturalists of 

 Hastings on the publication of this record of the results of five years' work. 



Entomological Society of London : 6th June, 1883. — J. W. Dunning, Esq., 

 M.A., F.L.S., President, and subsequently. Prof. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., Honor- 

 ary Life-President, in the Chair. 



George Coverdale, Esq., of Fleming Eoad, Lorrimore Square, was elected a 

 Member. 



Professor Westwood thanked the Society for electing him Life-President (a title 

 that had only been bestowed upon the late Eev. W. Kirby in the prior history of 

 the Society), and delivered an inaugural address, in which he succinctly treated upon 

 the history of entomology, and commented upon the revolution occasioned by the 

 popular adoption of the Theory of Evolution. 



Mr. J. W. Slater exhibited a collection of insects (cliiefly Lepidoptera) from 

 Zululand, in which were interesting forms of Acraa, Salurniidce, &c. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited a pupa found in a nest of Formica nigra, in Ayr- 

 shire, by Mr. Cameron. Baron Osten-Sacken considered it to be that of one of the 

 Syrphidce. 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited an example of Lehia turcica, which had been for- 

 warded to him as having been captured near Hastings by Mr. W. H. Bennett {cf. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., ante p. 8). 



Mr. Fitch exhibited examples of a " tick " taken from sheep at Maldon, Essex, 

 and commented upon the supposed connection of the presence of the tick with a 

 disease peculiar to sheep, desiring further information on the subject. 



Mr. H. W. Bates read a " Supplement to the Greodephagous Coleoptera of 

 Japan," in the elaboration of which the new materials obtained by Mr. George 

 Lewis during his investigations in 1880 and 1881 were fully worked out. 



Mr. Roland Trimen commvmicated " Descriptions of new species of Soutli African 

 Rhopalocera.^' 



4th July, 1883.— Prof. J. O. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., Honorary Life-President, 

 in the Chair. 



A. E. Shaw, Esq., of Elgin Road, Harrow Road, was elected a Member. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited pieces of vine-roots from a vinery near Accrington, 

 very badly infested with Phylloxera ; broods of young had hatched on them during 

 the short time they had been in his hands. The vines had been apparently quite 

 healthy until recently, but were now gradually dwindling and dying. 



Miss E. A. Ormerod exhibited an enormous mass of Atherix ibis, F., found on 

 a branch of alder suspended over the river at Hampton Court. (This fly belongs to 

 the family Leptidce. Similar masses [to be compared to a swarm of bees] have fre- 

 quently been observed. They consist entirely of dead females, and M. Perez, of 

 Bordeaux, has recently suggested that these congregate for oviposition, and that the 

 young larvse fall into the water voluntarily when hatched). 



