JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
XXVH 
7th November , 1836. 
The Rev. F. W. Hope, President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
Recherches sur les Insectes nuisibles a la Vigne. Presented by 
the Baron Walckenaer, the Author thereof. 
The Athenaeum for September and October. By the Editor. 
Gould, Natural History of Ants; 
Fourcroy, Entomologia Parisiensis, 2 vols. sm. 12mo. ; 
Forster, Enchiridion Historiae Naturalis ; 
De Geer, Genera et Species Insectorum. Auct. Retzius; 
Olivier, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coleopteres. Vol. I. ; 
All presented by the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Monstrositates Coleopterorum. Auctore Dr. Asmuss. Presented 
by the Author. 
Nos. 16 and 17 of the Entomological Magazine. By the Editors. 
J. W. G. Gutch, Esq. of Wind Street, Glamorganshire, and Wil- 
liam Sharpe Mac Leay, Esq., were elected Ordinary Members of 
the Society ; the suspension of the certificate in favour of the 
latter having, by the resolution of the meeting, been dispensed 
with. 
Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 
A letter was read from Robert H. Schomburgh, Esq. of George 
Town, Demerara, addressed to the Secretary, stating that he had 
despatched a collection of insects made by himself in the interior of 
British Guiana for the Society. 
The president exhibited specimens of Myrmica unafasciata ? found 
at Long’s Hotel, Bond Street, and communicated to him by Mr. 
Holme. It was stated by the former, that they were regarded as 
an East Indian species, but such was certainly not the fact. He 
considered it very probable that in many cases it was communicated 
in fire-wood or faggots. 
He also exhibited a remarkable monstrosity in Geotrupes stereo - 
rarias , in which both the anterior tibiae were very short, com- 
pressed, destitute of spines and curved, and the tarsi wanting. 
He also exhibited specimens of the larva of the pale tussock 
moth, Lana fascelina, known in Kent under the name of Hop-dogs 
and Hop-cats, from the great injury which they commit in hop- 
grounds. He also alluded to the ravages of the wire-worm, or 
larvae of some species of Elateridcv, and to the means for checking 
