JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. VIl 



it renewed its attempts several times. The specimen became very- 

 tractable, and would show a playful humour at times by tossing a 

 ball of cotton about with its mandibles, and holding it up in the air. 



Lieut. -Col. Sykes observed, that the same kind of playfulness 

 was occasionally to be noticed in the prototypes of the Lucanus, the 

 Stag and Deer tribes. 



The President alluded to the death of Adi'ian Hardy Hawortb, 

 Esq., F.L.S., H.S., Cass. Soc. Nat. Hist. Moscow, See. Roy. Hort. 

 des Pays Bas, &c., whereupon it was resolved to enter the regrets 

 of the Society upon the Minutes of its Proceedings, on account of 

 the loss which Science, especially Entomology, has sustained by his 

 lamented decease. 



January 6th, 1834. 

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



Donations. 



Illustrations of British Entomology, No. 60. By the Author, J. 

 F. Stephens, Esq. 



Memoir on the Connexion between the Land and Water Cimicidce, 

 and Description and Figure oi Encephalus complicans. By the Au- 

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



A Box of Chinese Insects. By T. S. Bowerbank, Esq. 



150 Species of New Holland Insects. By the Linncean Society 

 of London. 



24 Species of British Insects. By Mr. R. H. Lewis. 



Memoirs, &c. 



" Explanation of the sudden Appearance of the Vf eb-spinning 

 Blight of the Apple Hawthorn, &c." By R. H. Lewis, Esq. (See 

 a7ite, page 21. Memoir IV.) 



" Description of the Larva of Raphid'ta Ophiopsis." By G. R^ 

 Waterhouse, Esq., Curator. (See ante, page 23. Memoir V.) 



" Descriptions of the Larvas and Pupse of several Coleopterous 

 Insects." By the same. (See ««<e, page 27. Memoir VI.) 



" Description of Rlpipteryx, a new genus of Ort/iojdera." By 

 Edward Newman, Esq., F.L.S. Withdrawn, and published by the 

 author in the Entomological Magazine, No. 7. Mr. Newman added 

 some verbal remarks upon the habits of the nearly allied genus 

 Tridactylus, from the ' Observations sur le Tridactyle imnache' of 

 M. Foudras of Lyons, published in 1821). 



