JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. XXV 



The Magazine of Natural History, New Series, No. 30. By 

 the Editor. 



The Athenaeum for May. By the Editor. 



Part 13 of Introduction to the Modern Classification of In- 

 sects. By J. O. Westvvood, the Author thereof 



Part 1 of the Elements of British Coleoptera. By VV. E. 

 Shuckard, Esq, the Author thereof. 



Nos. 1 and 2 of British Coleoptera delineated. Presented by 

 Messrs. Spry and Shuckard. 



Sir William Sarsfield Rossiter Cockburn, Bart., 

 Dr. Kidd, Reg. Prof of Botany, Oxford, 

 Mr. Edward Doubleday, of Epping, and 

 Mr. William Masters, jun. of Canterbury, 

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



Exhibitions, Memoirs. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope stated that having violently struck down 

 some worm-eaten carved wood with a hammer, a vast number of 

 the Anohia shortly afterwards made their appearance, whence he 

 considered this to be an excellent method of collecting these in- 

 jurious insects for destruction. 



Mr. Saunders exhibited a very large Prionideous larva, found 

 by himself in Albania. 



Mr. Fennell presented specimens of an Ixodes, found upon a 

 tortoise. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited specimens of Tenthredo testudinea, 

 Klug, the females of which he had recently captured, whilst 

 hovering over and ovipositing in apple blossoms. In the pre- 

 ceding year the apple crop had almost entirely failed owing to 

 the attacks of this insect, the larvae feeding in the interior of the 

 young fruit. 



Mr. Hope stated that he had received from Shropshire speci- 

 mens of a caterpillar which destroys the apple blossom, five or 

 six being found in a single flower. 



The following memoirs were read : 



'• Experiments on old Honey Combs." By W. Sells, Esq. 



" Some Account of the preparatory Stages of Xiphydria dromi- 

 dariusy with Observations on its Aflinities." By J. O. Westwood, 

 F. L. S. 



" Descriptions of some Species of Bulboccrus, from New Hoi- 



