70 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
SOCIETIES. 
ENTomoLoGicaL Society or Lonpon.—F'ebruary 3rd. Robert 
M’ Lachlan, F.R.S., President, tn the chair. 
The President nominated Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, F.R.S., 
Mr. H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., and Mr. J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., 
Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. 
Dr. Livett, Lieutenant Goodrich, and Messrs. Eustace Bankes 
and F’. Knock were elected Fellows; and M. Ragonot, of Paris, 
ex-President of the Entomological Society of France, was elected 
a Foreign Member of the Society. 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited some scales of Coccide 
(Hriopeltis), some of which were found by Mr. F. Moore on 
blades of grass at Ilfracombe; and others were found by 
Mr. Waterhouse on blades of grass in the Warren at Folkestone. 
Mr. EK. A. Fitch remarked that Hriopeltis festuce had been 
recorded as British at a meeting of the Society held about thirty 
years ago. 
Mr. Douglas sent for exhibition leaves of Huwonymus 
japonicus, received from M. Lichtenstein, infested by Chionaspis 
ewuonymi, which occurred in great numbers at Montpellier and 
Nismes, and always destroyed the shrubs attacked by it. 
The President exhibited specimens of T'ettix australis 
(Walker), received from Mr. Olliff, of the Sydney Museum, who 
had captured them at the River Nepean, New South Wales. 
Mr. Olliff stated that the insect was decidedly subaquatic; he had 
found the insects not only on the surface of pools of water, but 
also eight or ten inches below the surface on the stems of water 
plants. 
Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Ralfe, several 
specimens of Lycena corydon of a very extraordinary character ; 
and Mr. Weir and others made remarks on them. 
The Rev. W. W. Fowler exhibited a specimen of the almost 
unique beetle, Harpalus caleeatus, taken by himself at Brid- 
lington, Yorkshire; also a specimen of Apion Lemoroi (Brisout), 
a new French Apion taken on the coasts of Normandy and 
Brittany. He also exhibited several species of British Helophori, 
and read notes on their synonymy. 
Mr. H. Goss read an analysis of M. Brongniart’s recent work 
on ‘Les Insectes Fossiles des Terrains Primaires’ (Rouen, 1885), 
