JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. XXlll 



The Athenaeum, for April. By the Editor. 



Genera Insectorum, No. 3. By Dr. Burmeister, the Author 

 thereof. 



Hymenoptera Britannica {Ahjsia and OxTjura.) By A. H. 

 Haliday, Esq. the Author thereof. 



The Magazine of Natural History, New Series, No. 29. By 

 the Editor. 



No. 12 of an Introduction to the Modern Classification of 

 Insects. By J. O. Westwood, the Author thereof. 



Zeitschrift fur die Entomologie, Vol. 1, part 1. By Dr. Ger- 

 mar, the Editor thereof. 



Twelve Numbers of the Naturalist. By the Editor. 



Various specimens of Macrourous Crustacea in spirits. By S. S. 

 Saunders, Esq. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. Yarrell exhibited a large and hairy caterpillar, evidently 

 one of the Lepidoptera, picked up in South America by Captain 

 Blakeney, R. N., who felt, upon touching it, a sensation extending 

 up his arm similar to an electric shock, of such force that he lost 

 the use of the arm for a time, and his medical attendant considered 

 that his life was for some time in danger. 



Mr. Hope exhibited a foreign Heteromerous beetle, which had 

 been in his cabinet four or five years, from the extremity of the 

 body of which a Filaria, still living, had very recently protruded 

 itself. 



Mr. Shipster exhibited some photogenic drawings made from 

 engravings of insects ; one of the plates of Paussidce, in the So- 

 ciety's Transactions, being very vividly reproduced. 



Mr. Raddon also exhibited some photogenic drawings of in- 

 sects, both of the natural size, and magnified by the solar micro- 

 scope. He also exhibited specimens of GoUathus Drurii, Westw. 

 $, and G, regius, King. ? ; the latter taken on the west coast 

 of Africa at 5<^ north lat. near the island of St, Andrews. 



He also exhibited specimens of one of the minute Tipulidce, 

 reared from the gall upon fir-cones, exhibited at the last meeting, 

 with various species of parasites ; and likewise the net-like 

 cocoon of Cerostoma porrectella, one of tlie Tineidce, the larvae of 

 which feeds upon the Garden Rocket. 



The President read an extract from a letter from Strachan, 



Esq. at Sierra Leone, announcing the capture of another specimen 

 o( GoliaUius (^Eudicella) Morgani, White. 



