JOURNAL OP PROCEEDINGS. XlX 



Sir Robert Kerr Porter, Baronet, resident in South America, 

 Mr. Ezra Downes, resident in the Himalayan Mountains, and 

 John Newman Tweedy, Esq. Swedish and Norwegian Vice- 

 Consul in Hayti, 

 were elected Corresponding Members of the Society. 



The President nominated the three following gentlemen to act 

 as Vice-Presidents : 



T. HoRSFiELD, Esq, M.D. 

 George Newport, Esq. 

 G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited a few exotic Coleoptera, for- 

 warded to him by Dr. Burmeister, including a second species of 

 his genus PHiENOMERis (Eupyga Besckii, Mann.), from Mozam- 

 bique. 



He also made some observations upon the nests of a species of 

 Termes, forwarded to the Society by Mr. Schomburgk, from 

 Demerara, together with specimens of the inhabitants thereof, and 

 of a Solptiga, which was parasitic in the nest. He also mentioned 

 that the nests of Termes, owing to their compactness, were de- 

 scribed by several travellers as being used as ovens for baking 

 food. This was the case in Caffraria and in Ceylon, and he 

 also believed in New Holland, as mentioned in Bennett's work 

 on that country. He also considered it most probable that the 

 Chunam floors in India were composed of powdered Termes 

 nests. 



Mr. Hope also made some observations upon a piece of fossil 

 wood, exhibiting the operations of insects brought from India by 

 Dr. Cantor, who communicated the following remarks to the 

 Society. " The fossil wood was procured by Mr. H. M. Low at 

 Camillah, in the Decca district, and brought by this gentleman 

 with another piece of fossil wood (also Dicotylidinous), to Cal- 

 cutta. Both were found in the same locality ; the one before the 

 Society is siliceous, and bears marks of insects; the other, appa- 

 rently calcareous, has been perforated by a kind of Teredo ; the 

 traces of which agree with those I have observed in the trees of 

 the Gangetic Delta, formed by Teredo navalis. Mr. Mac Clelland 

 has referred to these two fossils in his Reports upon the Coal and 

 Mineral resources of India, p. 29, note." 



Mr. Thwaites exhibited a small collection of insects, obtained 



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