JOURNAL OF PKOCEIiDlN(,S. ixV 



Memoir upon the Genus Nt/c/eribia. By J. O. Westwood, the 

 Author thereof. 



No. 75 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By J. F. Ste- 

 phens, Esq., the Author thereof. 



No. 7 and 8 of the Manual of Entomology. By Mr. Shuckard. 



The 7th part of the Athenaeum for July 1835. By the Editor. 



William Scales, Esq., of Stamford Hill, 



Robert John Ashton, Esq., Queen's Buildings, Brompton, and 

 Mrs. Frederick Hope (the lady of the President), 

 were elected Ordinary Members of the Society, the ballot for the 

 last-named lady being by unanimous consent dispensed with. 



Memoirs, Exhibitions, &c. 



Mr. Desvignes exhibited a living specimen of Callidum holoscri- 

 ceum, which had been reared in a piece of furniture, which had been 

 in his possession at least seven years, having been made in Paris, 

 since which it had been taken to Turkey, and subsequently removed 

 to London. Numerous other specimens appeared to have made 

 their escape at the same time that the one exhibited was captured. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited specimens of the walking-leaf in- 

 sect, Phy Ilium siccifolium, from India, in different stages of growth, 

 including also the perfect male and female insects, the former of 

 which is distinguished by having long antennae and short wing- 

 covers, and exhibits on each side of the middle segment of the abdo- 

 men an ocellated process, which Mr. G. R. Gray, in his ' Synopsis of 

 the Phasmida:' , appears to have regarded as a specific character, one of 

 the species of the genus being named by him Phyllium bioculatum. 



Mr. Stephens exhibited a specimen of Elenchus tenuicornis, K., in 

 fine preservation, captured by himself whilst swee])ing thistles and 

 low herbage about three miles from Hertford, during the present 

 summer. He observed that it was very active whilst in the net, and 

 that it moved its pseudelytra with great rapidity. The abdomen, 

 when alive, is long, but shrivels to about half its length in drying, 

 the segments being connected by a fine pale-coloured membrane. 

 This part of the body when alive is twisted aljout similarly to that of a 

 Staphylinus. 



Mr. Hearae, of the island of Saint Domingo, who was present as 

 a visitor, exhibited specimens of the Acarus, or Tick, which is very 

 injurious to cattle and horses in Hayti, accompanied by the following 

 observations : — This insect is very injurious to cattle in Hayti, par- 

 ticularly to the horse and ass. Its attacks seem principally directed 



