XXII JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Davidson of specimens of the Cane Fly of the West Indies, Delphaos 

 saccharlvora. 



"Descriptions of two new Coleoptera from the Swan River." By 

 the Rev. F. W. Hope. 



"Remarks upon a Passage in Herodotus referred to in Mr. Spence's 

 Paper read at the last Meeting relative to Gnats." ByW. B. Spence, 

 Esq., For. Sec. E.S. (See p. 7.) 



"Observations on the most effectual Modes to be adopted for dis- 

 covering successful Remedies against the Ravages of Insects, with a 

 short Account of the Onion Fly, Anthomyia ceparum." By J. O. West- 

 wood. Subsequently published by the author in the Magazine of 

 Natural History, vol. vii. p. 425. 



"Descriptions of various Insects found in Gum anbn^." By the Rev. 

 F. W. Hope. 



"Supplementary Notes upon the Habits of the Indigenous Fossorial 

 Hymenoptera." By W. E. Shuckard, Esq. (See p. 58.) 



"Further notice of CuculUa Thapsiphaga." By Mr. B. Standish. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope read a letter containing an account of the 

 great injuries recently caused by the grub of the Tipula oleracea 

 upon grass lands, and requesting information as to the most effec- 

 tual means for preventing its extension ; with reference to which, 

 Mr. Spence observed that some years ago the neighbourhood of 

 Holdernesse was similarly attacked, but although many remedies 

 were then proposed, none had been found successful. 



Mr. Yarrell, in allusion to the remedies proposed by Mr. West- 

 wood against the Onion fly, and by Rusticus of Godalming against 

 the Turnip fly {Haltica nemorum) in the 'Entomological Magazine,' 

 observed, that as the seeds of the two plants attacked by these insects 

 are inclosed in compact and closed pods which are carefully gathered 

 by the seedsmen before they burst open, it was difficult to suppose 

 that the parent fly could deposit her eggs upon the seeds of those 

 plants, as had been suggested by those authors ; and added that the 

 minute particles attached to the turnip seed mentioned by Rusticus 

 exhibited no resemblance to the eggs of insects. 



A lengthened discussion took jjlace on the subject of the ravages 

 of insects in general and the proposed remedies, and it was agreed 

 that the Society would gladly receive communications from any 

 person, although not a member of the Society, who had noticed the 

 proceedings of these of any destructive insects, or who had discovered 

 any successful remedy against their attacks. 



Mr. Stephens observed that the moth reared by Mr. Standish and 

 sujjposed to be the CuculUa Thapsiphaga appeared to him to be a new 

 species belonging to a subgenus distinct from CuculUa, and of which 



