JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
lxiii 
October 2nd, 1837. 
J. F. Stephens, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 
for 1837. Parts 1, 2, and 3. Presented by that Society. 
Neue Schmetterlinge, part i. 4to. 1837. By Dr. Klug, the 
Author thereof. 
The Athenaeum, for September, 1837. By the Editor. 
No. 10 of the Magazine of Natural History. New Series. By 
the Editor. 
Directions for collecting Zoological, Botanical, and Geological 
Specimens. By J. G. Children, Esq. 
No. 21 of the Entomological Magazine. By the Editor. 
Purchased by the Society : — 
American Entomology. By Thomas Say. Vols. i. and ii. 
Fuessly’s Archives des Insectes. 
Denny’s Monographia Pselaphidarum, &c. 
Francis Walker, Esq., F.L.S., &c. was elected an Ordinary 
Member of the Society. 
Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 
Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited a small collection of insects of 
various orders from Central India. 
Mr. Westwood exhibited portions of the stem of the common 
hollyhock perforated by Apion radiolus to a considerable extent, 
and also leaves of the same flower gnawed into holes by the same 
insect, and by Haltica fuscipcs, which also attacked the flowers, 
rendering them unsightly. He also mentioned, that as this plant 
belongs to the same natural family as the common mallow, which 
is the ordinary food of these insects, the relationship of the two 
plants was confirmed. 
Mr. Westwood also noticed the occurrence of the disease to 
which the domestic flies are at this season of the year subject, and 
which Kirby and Spence had considered as a kind of plethora. 
Mr. Mac Leay had also noticed it at the Liverpool Meeting of 
the British Association, but had considered it as a new species of 
fungus, thus proving the possibility of plants growing upon ani- 
mals; at which meeting Dr. Lindley alluded to the discoveries 
