JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
V 
Frederick Holme, Esq., M.A., Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford, and 
William Knott, Esq., of Wimburne, Dorset, 
were elected Ordinary Members of the Society ; and 
M. Von Winthem, of Hamburgh, 
M. Frivaldszki von Frivald, of Perth in Hungary, 
M. Menetries, of St. Petersburgh, 
M. Dupont, of Paris, and 
M. Robert, of Liege, 
were elected Foreign Ordinary Members of the Society. 
Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 
J. G. Children, Esq., exhibited a specimen of a Mexican Coleop- 
terous insect, recently obtained by him, and which he regarded as 
the Kanguroo Beetle ( Scarabceus macropus J of Francillon ; like- 
wise two specimens of Chrysina Mexicana, figured in Griffith’s 
Animal Kingdom, which he considered as the females of the former. 
Some doubts, however, existed as to the specific identity of the 
former, which he promised to solve by an examination of Fran- 
cillon’s original specimen in the cabinet of Mr. Mac Leay. 
Mr. Westwood exhibited five new species of Paussidce, forwarded 
to him by M. Gory, of Paris. Also some heads of poppies at- 
tacked by one of the Cynipidce. The interior of the seed vessels was 
found to be completely transformed into a solid dry porous sub- 
stance, in which the larvae and pupae of the Cynips were found. 
The same member also exhibited specimens of a Geometrideous 
larva, found on a grass-covered sandy bank between the promon- 
tory of Fairhead and the town of Ballycastle, Ireland, in such pro- 
fusion, that they might be collected by handfuls ; every stem and 
leaf of grass was alive with them, twisted into endless variety of 
grotesque forms, or hanging suspended by their threads. He de- 
sired information as to the species of moth of which these might 
be the larvee. 
The Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited specimens of a new species of 
Chalcis, belonging to the sub-genus Brachymeria, parasitic upon 
the pupa of an East Indian butterfly of the genus Euplcea, spe- 
cimens of which latter in the chrysalis state were also exhibited. 
Twenty-one individuals of the Chalcis appeared to have been pro- 
duced from one chrysalis. Figures of this Chalcis , which Mr. 
Hope proposed to name Chalcis ( Brachymeria ) Euplcece, and of 
the chrysalis from which they were produced, are represented in 
plate II. fig. 9 and 10. 
