Xviii JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



" Observations upon the Habits of various specie!^ of British In- 

 sects." By J. O. Westwood. (See p. 198.) 



" Account of the Dead Sea Apple, and the Insect which causes its 

 formation." By Walter Elliott, Esq., by w^hom specimens of this 

 production were exhibited. 



Mr. Sells stated, that in Jamaica dogs as well as cattle and horses 

 are very subject to the attacks of ticks of large size, and which are 

 occasionally so injurious to the latter as to cause their ears to drop 

 down M-ithout the horses having the power of raising them again ; 

 indeed, it is a regular custom once a week, whilst the horses are out 

 at grass, for them to be driven home to be " ticked," the parts in- 

 fested being rubbed over with lamp-oil, no other remedy having been 

 discovered. 



Mr. Shuckard, in reference to some of the observations in Mr. 

 Westwood's paper, stated that he had repeatedly seen Foenvs Jacula- 

 tor in Battersea- fields entering the holes in wood formed by Stelis 

 phcEoptera and Megachile ceiituncularis , and had also several times 

 captured Trypoxylon figulus with its prey, consisting of spiders, 

 whence it was evident that the account given by Linnaeus, and ques- 

 tioned by M. Saint Fargeau, is correct; and as this insect is totally 

 destitute of spines on the legs, he is induced to believe that Sapyga 

 also is not parasitic, as has been likewise supposed. 



September 1th, 1835. 

 J. G. Children, Esq., Sec. R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Memoires de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, vol. vii., 

 part 1 . Presented by that Society. 



No. 76 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By Mr. Stephens. 



Essay on the Geographical Distribution of Man and Animals. By 

 W. Swainson, Esq., F.R.S., &c., the Author thereof. 



Remarks on the Natural System. By the same. 



The Analyst, No. 13. By the Editor. 



The Athenaeum, part 8, for 1835. By the Editor. 



Nos. 9 and 10 of the Manual of Entomology. By Mr. Shuckard. 



A box of Norwegian insects, presented by Mr. C. Hewitson, of 

 Newcastle. 



Gu6rin's Bulletin Zoologique. No. 1 was also on the table, pur- 

 chased by the Society. 



