JOURNAL OF PHOCKEDINGS. XXXI 



J. C. Johnstone, Esq., of the Island of Jamaica, was elected an 

 Ordinary Member of the Society. 



Memoirs, Exhibitions, &c. 



The President exhibited perfect insects and eggs of the Cicada 

 septendecem, the latter of which, in the interior of the twig, were not 

 discernible at the preceding Meeting of the Society, when this sub- 

 ject was brought under the notice of the Members. The President 

 also exhibited various new and interesting species of exotic insects, 

 including a fine and curious Moth from New Holland {Chelepteryx 

 Colles'i) . 



Report of the Entomological Proceedings at the Meeting of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Edin- 

 burgh in September, 1834. Communicated by the Secretary. They 

 consisted of — 



1. Observations by Mr. James Wilson, the author of the 'Entomol. 

 Edinensis,' vipon a collection of insects obtained in an excursion to 

 the north-west of Sutherlandshire, undertaken in June, 1834, by 

 Sir William Jardine, Mr. Selby, and Mr. James Wilson. 



2. Observations upon a collection of insects recently received from 

 Java, by Mr. James Wilson. In this collection were contained nu- 

 merous specimens of Mormolyce ; also a singular genus of Ortho- 

 pterous insects, in which the lower wings are fully developed, whilst 

 the upper are totally wanting, (Perlamorpha, Curt.). 



3. A short note upon the Transformations of the Crustacea, by 

 J. O. Westwood, F.L.S., in which the author mentioned various 

 circumstances sufficiently disproving the theory of general metamor- 

 phosis in these animals, as asserted by Mr. Thompson in his 'Zoo- 

 logical Researches.' 



4. Although not forming a separate memoir, may be mentioned 

 the statements contained in Sir Charles Bell's ' Lecture on the Nerv- 

 ous System' of the discoveries made by that gentleman's assistant, 

 Mr. Newport, of the spinal marrow of the lobster, and a medullary 

 tract of spinal marrow in the Sjjhinx Ligustri, from which nerves 

 were distinctly traced, extending to the respiratory organs of that 

 animal. 



Also, Report of the Entomological Proceedings at the Zoological 

 Society. Communicated by the Secretary. At the Meeting of the 

 24th of June, 1834, a Letter was read from Keith E. Abbott, Esq., 

 to the Secretary, dated from Trebizond, accompanied by some poi- 

 sonous honey, stating that the account given by Xenophon of the 

 existence of this deleterious honey, and of its effects upon the Greeks, 

 as related by that author, during their celebrated retreat after the 



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