Tin JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



August 6th, 1838. 

 W. E. Shuckard, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



The Journal of the Natural History Society of Boston, Vol. 1, 

 part 4, and vol. 2, part 1. Presented by that Society. 



The Honey Bee. Second Edition. By Dr. E. Bevan, M.E. S., 

 &c. By the Author thereof. 



Systema Insectorum. Fasciculus Imus; 



Enumeratio Coleopterorum Agri Monacensis ; and 



Description of Mesoclastus jmradoxus {Hypocephalus armatus, 

 Desm.) All presented by Dr. Johannes Gistl, of Munich, the 

 Author thereof. 



Part 3 of an Introduction to the Modern Classification of 

 Insects. By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. Yarrell exhibited a species of Callidium variabile, which he 

 had reared from the larvae which he had exhibited at the May 

 meeting of the Society, and which had been found in the prepared 

 stems of branches supporting a number of stuffed humming birds 

 in a case by Mr. Leadbeater. 



He also communicated a letter from Lady de Grey, of Groby, 

 in which one of the common Elateridce was described as having 

 been observed to inflict an electrical shock which had been felt 

 from the hand to the elbow on suddenly touching the insect. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Eryx niger (one of the 

 Cistelidce), one of the antennae of which was bifurcated. 



Mr. Saunders exhibited a small collection of insects from the 

 Himalaya Mountains, some of which were interesting on account 

 of their resemblance to tropical Indian forms, whilst others were 

 European. Amongst the latter Mr. Shuckard noticed a specimen 

 of Larra ichneumoniformis, and the Rev. Mr. Taylor stated that 

 Himalayan specimens o{ Pajnlio Machaon and Gonepteryx Rhamni 

 in the British Museum were identical with European ones. 

 Vanessa Atalanta was still more widely extended, but the Ame- 

 rican specimens, according to Mr. Stephens, constituted a difl^erent 

 species, distinguished by a minute white speck on the fore wings. 



Mr. Bovverbank exhibited a living specimen of Cermalia — ? 

 found in tlie London Docks in a Ceylon ship ; its movements 

 were exceedingly rapid, and it had been fed for some time upon 



