XVIU JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Berkenhout, Synojisis of Natural History. By the Rev. F. W. 

 Hope. 



No. 62 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By J. F. Ste- 

 phens, Esq., the Author thereof. 



No. 3 of the Index Entomologicus. By W.Wood, Esq., the Author 

 thereof. 



About 300 Siiecies of British and Foreign Coleoptera and Hy- 

 menoptera. By F. WaUier, Esq. 



Various British Lepidoptera. By Mr. G. A. Grieshach. 



\'arious Exotic Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. By Mr. Ingpen. 



A Box of British Coleoptera, principally from the neighbourhood 

 of Cambridge. By C. C. Babington, Esq. 



The following Books, purchased at the Sale of the Library of the 

 late Mr. Haworth, were also ujjon the table, the President taking 

 occasion to call the attention of the Meeting to the Book Subscrip- 

 tion; 



Latreille, Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum, 4 vols. 



Meigen, on Europaean Diptera, C vols. 



Dejean, Species General des Coleopteres, 3 vols. 



Duftschmidt, Fauna Austriae, 3 vols. 



Kirby, Monographia Apum Anglise, 2 vols. 



Ochsenheimer and Treitschke, on Europaean Lepidoptera, .5 vols. 



MacLeay, Annulosa Javanica. 



Louis Hayes Petit, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., Sir Hexry Edwahdes, 

 Bart., and Thomas Prichard, Esq., were elected Members of the 

 Society ; and M. Schonherr of Skara in Sweden, and Signor Pas- 

 SERixi of Florence, were elected Foreign Honorary Members. 



Memoirs, Exhibitions, &c. 



Letters were read from M. Lefebvre, Sec. Soc. Ent. de France, 

 and Dr. Wiedemann of Kiel, returning thanks for the honour of their 

 election as Honorary Foreign Members of the Society. 



Mr. Ingpen, A.L.S., exhibited a curious Lepidopterous Larva from 

 St. Vincents. 



Mr. G. R. Gray exhibited several specimens of a Geometrideous 

 Larva from China, from the heads of which a long and slender fungus 

 had been produced, which specimens are highly prized by the Chinese, 

 being considered to possess stimulating powers similar to the Can- 

 tharidce. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited a magnificent Exotic Species of 

 PaUmnus. 



The foUowina: Memoirs were read : 



