JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. XXVll 



N». of Lots N". of Price, 



purchased. specimens. 



Coleoptera ... 51 ...... 1630 . . 



Diptera 14 58.5 . . 



Homoptera . . 1 40 . . 



Hymenoptera. . 2 100 . . 



Orthoptera . . 5 112 .. , 



Lepidoptera . . 56 1328 5 



129 3795 



Sum voted by the Society 10 



Donation by Mr. Bennett 



by W. Christy, Jun., Esq 



12 5 

 The thanks of the Society were directed to be given to Messrs. 

 Bennett and Christy for their donations. 



The following Communications were then read : 



Report of the Entomological Proceedings of the Royal Society, 

 during the month of June, communicated by the Secretary, consist- 

 ing of an elaborate memoir by Mr. George Newport, upon the inter- 

 nal analogy of the Sphinx Ligustri, illustrated by a multitude of figures ; 

 and a memoir upon the Lhnnoria terebrans, a minute but very de- 

 structive species of wood-louse, with a view of proving that this in- 

 sect is indigenous in the Irish ports. 



" Descriptions of various species of Dromii/s." By C. C. Babington, 

 Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



"On Coniortes, a new British genus of Neuroptera belonging to 

 the Hemerobiidae." By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S., &c.*. 



" Description of a new genus of Curculionidce, from Saint Helena." 

 By M, Chevrolat, of Paris. 



" Notes upon the genera Acentria, Acent7'opus, and Zancle." By 

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



The conclusion of Mr. Templeton's " Memoir upon the Thysanura 

 hibernicce." 



Mr. Johnstone, of the Island of Grenada, wlio was present as a 

 visitor, called the attention of the Meeting to the continued ravages 

 of the Delphax saccharivora upon the canes of the West Indian Is- 

 lands, and especially in Grenada, mentioning a variety of circum- 

 stances relative to the growth of the cane and the nature of the 



* Since this memoir was read tliis genus has been published by Mr. Curtis, in 

 his ' Illustrations of British Entomology,' (PI. 528. Dec. 1834.) under the name of 

 Conioptenjx, and is placed in tlie family Psocid^e. 



