JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. V 



December 2nd, 183^. 

 J. G. Children, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Introduction to Entomology, 4 vols. By the Authors, Messrs. 

 Kirby and Spence. 



Fabricii Sy sterna Rhyngotorum. By F. Walker, Esq. 



7'urton's Edition of Linneei Systcma Naturae. By Mr. Churton. 



Part I. of the Entomology of Australia. Phasmata. By the Au- 

 thor, G. R. Gray, Esq. 



Illustrations of British Entomology, No. 59. By the Author, 

 J. F. Stephens, Esq. 



Description of Chinsognathus Grant'd. By the same. 



Zoological Illustrations, Third Series, Part Entomology. By the 

 Author, W. Svvainson, Esq. 



Monographia Tenthredenitarum. Par M. De St. Fargeau, By 

 J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. 



Notice of the Ravages of the Cane-fly. By the same. 



Description and Figure o( Desmia maculalis, from Guerin's ' Ma- 

 gazin de Zoologie.' By the same. 



Numerous species of Insects, of various Orders. By the Rev. 

 F. W. Hope, Captain Blomcr, and Messrs. Shuckard, Doubleday, 

 Churton, Courtney, Pickering, Lewis, Skrimshire, and Walton. 



Memoirs, &:c. 



" On the Form of the Head of Insects." By E. Newman, Esq., 

 F.L.S., &c. Withdrawn, and published by the Aiuhor in the Ento- 

 mological Magazine, No. 6. 



*' Descriptions of some New Australian Colcoptera." By the Rev. 

 F. W. Hope. (See ante, p. 11. Memoir III.) 



Mr. Spence communicated an extract from a letter which he had 

 received from Mr. Edward C. Herrick of New Haven (North Ame- 

 rica), relating to the Hessian Fly, stating that the accounts hitherto 

 published concerning it were very erroneous, and that the writer 

 was engaged in preparing an account of its natural history, and of 

 its five parasites, two of which he considered to belong to the ge- 

 nera Eunjloma and Platygaster. He considered the fly itself to be 

 referrible to Meigen's genus Lasioptera. 



Mr. Westwood communicated a notice of the Entomological Pro- 

 ceedings of the Linnaean Society. At the Meeting of the 5th of No- 

 vember preceding, a Memoir upon Diojisis, a genus of Dipterous 



