JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS, xlix 



The name given by Mr. Gray to his new genus of Australian 

 moths was objected to by several members as being too close to 

 Calepteryx, a genus of dragon-flies, which led to some observations 

 upon the employment of almost identical generic names in various 

 groups of insects. 



It was also stated, with reference to the Memoir of M. Morren, 

 that several species oi Asclepiadeee were described as being fly-traps, 

 and it was suggested that it was by greater energy that butter- 

 flies were not only enabled to extricate themselves from the flower, 

 but also to drag off" the pollinific masses themselves, and that as the 

 genus Asclepias was chiefly North American, it was not uncommon 

 to perceive, attached to the legs of various insects which frequent 

 flowers, sent from that country, similar appendages to those observed 

 by M. Morren on the feet of the butterflies. 



The President observed, with respect to Mr. Sells's statement of the 

 maggots obtained from the head of a black man, that oil would in all 

 probability be found to be a serviceable remedy not only in such 

 cases, but also in the attacks of the bots. 



The following resolution (proposed by W. Sells, Esq., and seconded 

 by W. E. Shuckard, Esq.) was unanimously adopted : 



That it is considered by the members of the Entomological Society 

 present at this meeting, that a short popular course of lectures upon 

 Entomology would be highly desirable, and tend materially to the 

 advancement of the science. 



April 6th, 1835. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope, President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Jahrbucher der Entomologie. By Dr. F. Klug. 



Encyclopedic Methodique, Entomologie, 7 vols. 4to. Both Pre- 

 sented by the Rev. F. W. Hope, President. 



Observations sur un Insecte qui passe une grande partie de sa vie 

 sous la mer. By M. V. Audouin, Hon. For. Member of the Society, 

 the Author thereof. 



No. 72 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By J. F. Stephens, 

 Esq., the Author thereof. 



Notice of the Ravages of Insects upon Barley and Turnips ; by 

 J. C. Farmer, Esq. : with additional Observations and Descriptions, 

 by J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. Presented by the latter. 



A series of Dissections of the genus Anoplognathus. By W. Sells^ 

 Esq. 



