J^Q [June, 



Deyrolle, Armitage, and Janson. The Library sold for a little over £200. It was 

 not extensive from a general point of vievr, but comprised several complete series, 

 and other scarce books. The " Annales Soc. Ent, France " (complete) were sold for 

 £43 ; the " Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend." (complete) realized £32 ; and the single thin 

 vol. of the old Ent. Soc. Lond. (published in 1812) was considered to be worth 

 nearly £2. Nearly £9 was obtained for " Laporte and Gory ;" the Guerin-Me'ne villa 

 " Magasin " and " Eevue " series obtained £14 (the three series combined). The 

 most remarkable item, so far as regards the books, was that £18 was paid for 

 Donovan's " Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New 

 Zealand, New Guinea, &c." (a thin volume published in 1805) ; we believe it now 

 forms part of the new library formed in connection with the British Museum (Natural 

 History) at South Kensington. 



ENTOMOLoaiCAL SOCIETY OF LoNDON. — Maj/ 6th, 1885 : E. McLachlan, Esq., 

 F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced the death of Prof. C. T. E. von Siebold, one of the 

 Honorary Members. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited a species of BrucJiidce bred by him many years ago from 

 the seeds of a leguminous plant from South Brazil, and remarkable because the 

 pupa was enclosed in a special firm cocoon. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited, on behalf of Mons. Wailly, living larvae of 

 Hemileuca maja, which he believed to have been reared from the egg for the first 

 time in Europe. They fed upon hawthorn, but their natural food was oak. 



Mr. Billups exhibited a large quantity of living and dead examples of the oak- 

 root gall-maker, ApJiilothrix radicis, recently bred, together with its inquiline 

 Synergus incrassatus, and its parasite Callimome nohilis. He also exhibited two 

 living Carahus auratus, found in bunches of French lettuces in the Borough 

 Market. 



Mr. E. P. Collett exhibited an oak twig with numerous hard excrescences upon it, 

 and asked if they were possibly due to the agency of insects or Acari in the first 

 instance. The President said that excrescences of a similar nature on other trees 

 had been attributed to Phytoptus, but in this case they moi'e resembled what was 

 ordinarily termed " canker," and which had been tolerably well proved to be owing 

 to fungi. 



Mr. H. Goss, in presenting a series of hroehures by M. Brongniart on fossil 

 insects, read a sketch of the recent discoveries of gigantic fossil insects in palseozooic 

 formations in France, and commented upon the various schemes of classification 

 prepared for them, M. Brongniart in particular considering them links between 

 Orthoptera and Neuroptera, and proposing for them the ordinal term " Neuror- 

 thopteres." The President, Mr. Waterhouse, and others took part in the discussion. 



Mr. Enock read the first part of a paper on his experiences of the habits, &c., 

 of the English Trap-door Spider, Atypus piceus, as observed by him at Hampstead 

 and Woking, entering fully into the life-history of the species. His remarks more 

 especially concerned the <? , and he promised to refer to the ? in the concluding j 

 portion of the paper. Mr. Stainton and others took part in the discussion. 



