XXVlll JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Bill August, 1839. 

 The Rev. F. W. Hope, President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 2, 

 part 3, and 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society — August to November, 

 1838. Presented by that Society. 



British Coleoptera delineated, Part 4. Presented by Messrs. 

 Spry and Shuckard. 



Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Wurtemberg. Presented by 

 M. van Roser, the Author thereof. 



Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 

 1838, Part 4. By that Society. 



Journal of the Natural History Society of Boston, Vol. 2, Nos. 

 1 and 2. By the publishing Committee of that Society. 



No. 32 of the Magazine of Natural History, New Series. By 

 the Editor. 



The Athengeum for July. By the Editor. 



Monographia Chalciditmn, Vol. 2. By F. Walker, Esq., the 

 Author thereof. 



Description of a New Species o^ Lamia, from the Swan River. 

 By the Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Specimens of Tillus unifasciatus, captured near Camberwell. 

 By J. F. Stephens, Esq. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. Raddon exhibited some new species of North American 

 Coleoptera, obtained from raw turpentine. 



Mr. Hope exhibited some African insects, including several 

 Osvwdermce, which had been hitherto described as American. 



Mr. Yarrell exhibited a small collection of insects, made by 

 Mr. Whitfield at Sierra Leone. 



Mr. Ogilvie noticed the great devastation in Epping and Hai- 

 nault Forests, caused by the Tortrix vlridana, the insects being so 

 numerous as to fall from the trees when shaken like a sharp snow 

 storm, in consequence of which the trees spent all their vital 

 energy in repairing the loss of the leaves, instead of throwing out 

 fresh branches. Mr. Stephens had also observed similar devas- 

 tation in the woods of Surrey. 



