JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. XXXV 



December \st, 1834. 

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



Donations. 



No. 68 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By J. F. Ste- 

 phens, Esq. 



Description and Figure of Trochalonota badia. By J. O. West- 

 wood. 



Memoirs, Exhibitions, &c. 



A Letter was read from J. C. Johnstone, Esq., M.E.S., containing 

 an extract from a communication received by him from Mr. Stokes, 

 President of the Agricultural Society of Grenada, announcing the 

 appointment of a Committee of that Society, for carrying into effect 

 the suggestions contained in the Report of the Committee aj^pointed 

 by the Entomological Society upon the Cane-fly. 



A Letter was read from Mr. Edward C. Herrick, of Newhaven, 

 Connecticut, dated October 8th, 1834, addressed to W. Spence, Esq., 

 (by whom it was communicated to the Meeting,) relative to the at- 

 tacks of the Hessian-fly of North America upon corn, and of its 

 parasites ; and giving an account of the recent progress of Entomo- 

 logy in the United States. 



A Letter was read from Dr. Klug of Berlin, returning thanks for 

 his election as Honorary Foreign Member of the Society. 



The Sixth Volume of the Transactions of the Academy of Na- 

 tural History of Moscow, and Bouche's Natural History of the 

 Preparatory States of numerous Insects," were laid upon the table. 



The following Memoirs were read : 



" Observations upon the Organization of the Mouth of the Antho- 

 phora retusa, and upon the Nature of the Parasitic Connexion exist- 

 ing between the working and parasite Bees." By J. O. Westwood, 

 by whom numerous figures, illustrating the parts of the mouth in 

 different degrees of protrusion, were exhibited. 



"Observations upon Silk and Silk-producing Insects." By the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., &c., by whom an extensive and beautiful 

 series of the exotic species of Silk-moths, from his own and the col- 

 lection of J. G. Children, Esq., was exhibited, as well as a very large 

 and fine specimen of the branch of a tree covered with the cocoons 

 of another exotic Silk-moth, from the collection of the Naval and 

 Military Museum. 



Two remarkable cocoons of another large moth fi-om South Ame- 

 rica (which were at first regarded as the nests of a large spider,) were 

 presented to the Society by Mr. H. Cumming. 



