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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
Richard Taylor, Esq., F. R. S., &c., of Red Lion Court, Fleet 
Street, was elected an Ordinary Member of the Society ; and 
Dr. Berendt, of Dantzig, 
Dr. Beck, of Copenhagen, 
M. le Capitaine Francois De V illiers, of Chartres, 
M. Van Roser, of Stuttgard, 
Dr. Lehmann, of Hamburgh, 
Dr. Nees Von Esenbeck, of Breslau, and 
M. le Marquis Maximilian Spinola, of Turin, 
were elected Ordinary Foreign Members of the Society. 
The President nominated Dr. Horsfield, Lieut. Col. W. H. 
Sykes, W. W. Saunders, and William Yarrell, Esqs. to act as 
Vice-Presidents for the year ensuing. 
Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 
The President exhibited a small nest of a species of Termitidce, 
or White Ants, about a foot in height, of a pitcher shape, solid 
earthy texture and black colour. Communicated from Fernando 
Po, by Captain H. Downes, M. E. S. 
Also two spherical case fuzes half eaten by the Wood Ant of 
Barbadoes, the brown paper, string and composition of which they 
are formed remaining unhurt. Communicated from the Royal Naval 
and Military Museum, to which they had been presented by Lieut. 
Col. Birch. 
Also a large nut from the banks of the river Amazon, the in- 
terior of which had been devoured by an insect which proved, on 
opening the nut, to be a species of Upis, a genus whose economy 
had not hitherto been noticed. 
Mr. Desvignes exhibited two remarkable varieties of the Melitcece 
selene and artemis , captured upon the Malvern Hills, and near 
Ipswich. 
Mr. Westwood exhibited specimens of the German Gryllus ephip- 
piger, and noticed the remarkable structure of the posterior part of 
the prothorax in the males, which was elevated into a concave 
dome or sounding-board, a structure evidently intended for the in- 
crease of the sound produced by the friction of the wing covers, 
which in this species are very small. 
Mr. Edwin Lees exhibited specimens of a species of wasp, from 
the neighbourhood of Worcester, which had been considered to be 
the V. vulgaris , but of which the nest is of a very large size, and 
unlike that of the ordinary species, built on the beams of houses 
