JOURNAL OP PROCEEDINGS. XXXVU 



Report of the Proceedings relative to Entomology at the Linnsean 

 and Zoological Societies. Communicated by the Secretary. 



LiNN^AN Society, November 3rd, 1834. — Read a Supplementary 

 Paper upon some additional species of Diopsis, by J. O. Westwood. 

 Amongst the numerous Donations of Books, the following relative to 

 Entomology were especially worthy of notice : namely. The ' Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin for 1832;' con- 

 taining Dr. King's Memoir ujjon Madagascar Coleoptera. The 

 ' Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,' vol. 4 ; in- 

 cluding a Memoir entitled. Descriptions of some new North Ame- 

 rican Insects, and observations on some already described by the 

 late Tliomas Say. This valuable Memoir is confined to the Coleo- 

 ptera, in which many new species are described, and six new genera 

 added ; amongst which that of Amblycheila, formed for the reception 

 of the Manticora cylindriformis of Say, is the most interesting. The 

 'Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society,' vol. 3; containing a 

 Memoir by Lieut. -Col. Sykes upon the Kolisurra Silk- worm of the 

 Deccan, and the concluding part of Dr. Perty's Descriptions of the 

 Brazilian Insects, collected by Martins and Spix, with interesting 

 observations upon the Economy of Brazilian Insects in general by 

 Dr. Spix. 



December 2nd. — Read the description of a very remarkable Arach- 

 nideous animal from Brazil, forming the type of a new genus in the 

 family of Phalangiidce, distinguished by the immense length of its 

 legs, whence its generic name Dolichoscelis. It is dedicated to the 

 late Mr. Haworth, from whose collection it was obtained. By the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., &c. Also read the first portion of a 

 paper containing the descriptions of the insects captured along the 

 coast of South America during the late expedition of Captain P. P. 

 King; by Messrs. Curtis, Walker, andHaliday. In this first portion 

 the Hymenoptera were described by Mr. Haliday; being about fifty 

 in number, nearly half of which were considered as new, including 

 two new genera, Trachybates amongst the aberrant Ichneumonidse, 

 and Harpagon amongst the Pompilidce. The arrangement of the 

 groups appears to be founded upon the views contained in the 

 ' Horse Entomologicae.' 



December 16. — At this Meeting the only Entomological subject 

 to be noticed was the presentation of the third vol. of the ' Transac- 

 tions of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg,' con- 

 taining two valuable Memoirs upon Cochineal, and Cochineal insects, 

 by Messrs. Hamel and Brandt. 



Zoological Society, November 25th and December 9th. — At 

 these Meetings an extended Memoir upon the Organization of the 



