JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. XXIX 



Branches and leaves of the pear and manettia trees, infested by 

 two species of Coccus, were exhibited by Mr. Loudon. 



Short notes upon the metamorphoses of a species of gall insect, 

 found at Neemuck, in Western India. Communicated by Capt. 

 Downes. 



Notice of a mode of preventing Caterpillars, Woodlice, &c. from 

 ascending the trunks of trees. By Mr. Fennell. 



Extract from a letter addressed to the Secretary by W. Knott, 

 Esq. M. E. S., containing an account of the occurrence of a cocoon 

 of the Emperor moth, which inclosed two pupae. 



September 2d, 1839. 

 George Newport, Esq., Vice President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Memoir on Cydippe pomiformis. By Robert Patterson, Esq., 

 the Author thereof. 



No. S5 of the Magazine of Natural History. New Series. By 

 the Editor. 



Catalogue des Lepidopteres de la Belgique. By M. De Selys 

 Longchamps, the Author thereof. 



Description of the Crustacea and Insects taken during theVoy- 

 age of the " Favorite." By M. Guerin Meneville, the Author 

 thereof. 



Specimens of Micralymma Johnstonce, Westw., presented by 

 Mr. A. White, accompanied by the following note of its habits, 

 and of those o^ JEpusfulvesccns. 



" These specimens of ^pus fulvescens and Micralymma John- 

 stonce, are from a point of land about a quarter of a mile to the 

 west of South Queensferry, on the Frith of Forth, a locality for 

 the two species first found by Dr. Greville. In company with 

 his son I took these and several other specimens in August last ; 

 the Micralymma in great abundance creeping slowly over the thin 

 layers of black sandy mud which lie between the surface (laminee) 

 of slaty sandstone rock, of which the coast is composed. The 

 A^pus is more scarce, though far from uncommon, its light colour 

 renders it at once distinguishable on the black ground over which 

 it runs with considerable rapidity. Dr. Greville has found the 

 Cillenum laterale in the same locality, but it seems to be very 

 scarce there, as only three specimens have occurred during a 

 search of two or three years. It maybe interesting to the British 



