XIV JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Donations. 



The Magazine of Natural History. New Series, No. 23. By 

 the Editor. 



The Athenseum for October. By the Editor. 



The Annual Report of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary 

 Society. By that Society. 



No. 7 of an Introduction to the Modern Classification of 

 Insects. By J. O. Westwood. 



G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq., of Bristol, was elected an Ordinary 

 Member of the Society. 



George Newport, Esq., the Author of the successful Prize 

 Essay upon the Athalia centifolice being present, the President 

 announced to him that the prize of ten guineas offered by the 

 Society, and by the Saffron Walden Agricultural Association, had 

 been awarded to him, which he thereupon presented to him. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. Sells communicated the following passage from a review 

 of the works of Buftbn, in the Edinburgh Review for June, 1822, 

 relative to the construction of the cells of the bee, which appeared 

 to have anticipated Mr. Waterhouse's theory, 



*' A cell which one bee would make round, becomes hexagonal 

 by the mutual collision of seven." 



Mr. S, Stevens exhibited living specimens of a small spider, 

 and a large Lepisma found in a box of seeds from Java ; also a 

 specimen of Catocala Fraxini, taken near Arundel in October. 



Mr. Newport exhibited some cases in which Copris lunaris is 

 reared, and stated that he was able to assert that they had been 

 made by the parent insect, and not by the larva as had been sug- 

 gested. 



The following Memoirs were read : — 



" Notice of recent Entomological Captures." By Frederick 

 Holme, Esq., M.A. 



" Observations on the Construction of the Cocoon of the Goat 

 Moth, and on the Casting of the Coats of the Internal Organs by 

 Caterpillars during Moulting." By Robert J. Ashton, Esq., 

 F.L.S. 



Mr. Newport confirmed Mr. Ashton's statement of the trachea, 



