XVI JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. Westvvood exhibited a new British species of Epipone (E. 

 melanocephala, Gmel.), communicated by Mr. Thwaites. 



Mr. Bagster exhibited a twig of a greenhouse plant, the leaves 

 of which were discoloured by the punctures of a minute insect, 

 which had also spun a web on the underside of the leaf. {Acarus 

 telarius ?) 



The following Memoirs were read : — 



" Description of a Minute Species of Insect which inhabits the 

 Common English Sponge {^Spongilla Jluviatills)." By J. O. West- 

 wood, F.L.S. 



" Descriptions of new Exotic Species of Heteropterous Hemip- 

 tera. By Mr. A. White. 



January 7th, 1839. 

 J. F. Stephens, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 

 Nos. 7 & 8 of 1837, and Nos. 1, 2 & 3 of 1838. By that Society. 



Annual Report of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club for 1838. 

 By that Society, 



Genera Insectorum, Nos. 1 & 2 ; and 



Handbuch der Entomologie, Vol. 2, part 2. Both presented 

 by Dr. H. Burmeister, For. M.E.S., the Author thereof 



The Magazine of Natural History. New Series, No. 25. By 

 the Editor. 



Francis Bailey, Esq., Vice President and Treasurer R. S., &c., 

 Captain Ducane, of Southampton, and 

 C. Lamb, Esq., of Beaufort, near Hastings, 

 were ballotted for, and elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited portions of a very large wasp's nest 

 from Ceylon, recently presented to the Zoological Society, being 

 seven or eight feet long, and two feet in diameter, with the view 



