IXX JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Mr. S. Hanson communicated an extract from a letter from Mr. 

 E. Doubleday, containing an account of the destruction of a hive of 

 bees by the Galleria cereana, the inhabitants having forsaken the 

 hive, and the comb being filled with the larvae of the Galleria. A 

 portion of the comb completely destroyed, and filled with the cocoons 

 of the moth, was likewise presented to the Society by Mr. Double- 

 day, by whom also a box of specimens of the moth was laid upon the 

 table for the collection of the Society and for distribution amongst 

 the Members. (Vide Entomol. Mag., vol. iii. p. 414.) 



Mr. Sells informed the Meeting that a honeycomb had been shown 

 to him at Kingston infested with two different-sized insects, the larger 

 cocoons of which produced Galleria cereana and the smaller Galleria 

 alvearia. 



Mr. Stephens stated, that the former moth was very rare in collec- 

 tions ; the only time that he had heard of its having been found was 

 about forty years ago, when several hives in the neighbourhood of 

 Birch Wood were infested. 



Mr. J. C. Johnstone exhibited two living cane-plants infested with 

 the cane- fly, and called the attention of the Society to the rapid 

 and alarming progress made by this insect in extending its ravages 

 at least over two thirds of the island of Grenada. He mentioned that 

 in some plantations, which formerly made as much as 300 hogs- 

 heads of sugar per annum, not more than 80 or 90 could now be 

 made. The fly moreover had made its appearance in the neighbour- 

 ing island of Carriacoo. He begged leave to return the thanks of 

 the Agricultural Society of Grenada to the Society for the report 

 which had been sent out. 



The Secretary exhibited a box of Exotic insects, (chiefly Hymen- 

 optera,) including many new and rare species belonging to the 

 genera Paussus, Xyela, Planiceps, Eucharis, Apterogyna, Psammo- 

 therma, Celonites, Pahnon, &c. 



Mr. Shuckard exhibited a small collection of insects from the Cape 

 of Good Hope, including a new species of Paussus, Pentaplatarthrus 

 Paussoides, &c. 



Mr. S. Hanson and Mr. W. W. Saunders also exhibited various 

 new species of exotic insects of diflferent orders. 



The Secretary gave a short verbal notice of the following ento- 

 mological works recently published on the Continent : 



M. Wesmael, Monographie des Braconides de Beige. 



Dr.H. Burmeister's Zoologescher Hand Atlas. 



Dr. Thon's Die Insekten. 



He also exhibited various proof plates of insects from several Con- 

 tinental works not yet published, and read the following notice of 



