JOURNAL OF I'ROCKEDINGS. XXXlll 



November 3rd, 1834. 

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



Donations. 



Synonymia Insectorum, Genera et Species Curculionidum, vol. ii. 

 p. 2. By. C. J. Schonherr, Honorary Foreign Member of the So- 

 ciety. Presented by the Author. 



No. 67 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By J. F. Ste- 

 phens, Esq. 



Some Account of two Cases of Inflammatory Tumour, produced 

 by the Deposit of the Larva of a large Fly (CEstrus humanus) beneath 

 the Cutis in the Human Subject, accompanied with Drawings of the 

 Larva. By John Howship, Esq. Presented by John Curtis, Esq., 

 F.L.S. 



Memoire sur le genre Leucothy reus de MacLeay, et de ses Affinites. 

 By the Author, J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. , &c. 



Drawing of the Larva of Deilephila Euphorbiee. Presented by W. 

 Raddon, Esq., with a Specimen of the Larva preserved in spirits; to- 

 gether with the Female Termes, and some other Larvae preserved in 

 spirits. 



Memoirs, Exhibitions, &c. 



The same gentleman exhibited the living chrysalis of the Deile- 

 phila Euphorbia, the larva having gone into that state on the 10th 

 of October; he also exhibited other drawings of the same insect in 

 its various states. 



A Letter was read from J. C. Johnstone, Esq., acknowledging the 

 receipt of the Report of the Committee on the Delphax saccharivora 

 by the Agricultural Association of Grenada. 



The following Memoirs were read : 



"Remarks upon innumerable Quantities of the dead Bodies of the 

 Galeriica Tanaceti, observed at Cleathorpe, on the coast of Lincoln- 

 shire." By W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., &c. In this memoir it 

 w^as stated that the appearance of innumerable dead beetles lying 

 along the high-water mark on the coast was preceded by a violent 

 gale from the east. They lay in heaps among the sea- weed, and this 

 appearance extended for about 1500 paces. The opposite shore is 

 the Spurn Point, too narrow and barren, it was supposed, to produce 

 such flights. The Galeruca Tanaceti had never been previously ob- 

 served in the neighbourhood of Cleathorpe. Hence Mr. Saunders 

 is disposed to consider that they were driven over to our shores from 

 the opposite coast of Holland or the Netherlands. Mr. Saunders also 

 mentioned a somewhat analogous instance observed by himself near 



