PHOCEEDINGS 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



1879. 



February 5, 1879. 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., V.-P.R.S., President, in the chair. 



The President nominated as Vice-Presidents of the Society for the year 

 Mr. H. W. Bates, Mr. J. W. Dunning, and Mr. Frederick Smith. 



Donations to the Libi'ary were then announced, and thanks voted to 

 the donors. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera from a small 

 island at the mouth of the Amur River, in Siberia. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited a specimen of Gasteracantha Cain- 

 hridgei, a remarl<able spider from West Africa, recently described by 

 Mr. A. G. Butler. 



Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited a specimen of Harpahis oblong iusc id us, 

 taken by Mr. J. T. Harris, in May last, at the Chesil Bank, Weymouth. 



The Secretary read a note from Mr. A. H. Swinton, calling attention 

 to a passage in a paper by Mr. Wood-Mason, published in the last part of 

 the Society's 'Transactions' (part iv., p. 265), wherein the author asks, 

 "How is it that nobody has ever heard the Mantid(e stridulate?" Mr. 

 Swinton referred to Kirby and Spence's 'Introduction to Entomology' 

 (7th ed., p. 493), where it is stated, on the authority of M. Goureau, that 

 Mantis religiosa, " when alarmed and having put itself in an attitude of 

 defence, rubs the sides of the abdomen against the interior borders of the 

 wings and elytra, so as to produce a noise like that of parchment rubbed 

 together." 



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