XXXVl JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



In the discussion which ensued, the value of Mr. Hope's sugges- 

 tions were admitted, and various observations were made as to the 

 practicabiHty of carrying them into effect, and as to the particular 

 species of insect which would be most serviceable for experiment. 



With reference to the Memoir upon the mouth of the Bee, a discus- 

 sion took place between Mr. Shuckard and the author ; the former 

 alleging that the statements therein contained were destitute of 

 novelty ; whilst Mr. West wood stated that neither in the works of 

 Latreille, Kirby, Reaumur, nor any other author which he had con- 

 sulted, had the curious apparatus described by him for throwing out 

 the labium to its fullest extent from within the extremity of the tubular 

 mentum, been noticed. 



January oth, 1885. 

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



Donations. 



Some Account of the Kolisurra Silk- worm of the Deccan. By 

 Lieut.-Col. W. H. Sykes, V.P. Presented by the Author. 



Revue Entomologique de Silbermann, No, 5. By the Rev. F. W. 

 Hope. 



No. 69 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By J. F. Ste- 

 phens, Esq. 



57 Proof Impressions of Plates of Insects from Guerin's 'Iconogra- 

 l)hie du Regne Animal,' published by Mr. Griffiths. Presented by 

 J. O. Westwood. 



llie Nest of Eucheira socialis, described in the First Part of the 

 Transactions of this Society. Presented by O. Rees, Esq. 



Edward Horner, Esq., of Grove Hill, Camberwell, was elected a 

 Member of the Society. 



Memoirs, Exhibitions, &c. 



Mr. Samuel Hanson exhibited an undescribed and curious Lamel- 

 licorn Beetle, which he had received from Syrmna, allied to Scara- 

 bceus longimanus. 



Mr. Hope exhibited, by permission from the United Service Mu- 

 seum, a gigantic species of lulus, and the jDupa and imago of a 

 large cornuted Scarabeeus from Ceylon. 



Mr. Westwood stated that he had recently discovered the rare 

 Platydema hicolor. Fab., (Diaperis cenea of English authors,) under the 

 rotten bark of a post at Chiswick, in considerable numbers, in com- 

 pany with its larvae, drawings of which were exhibited. 



