PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 91 



Donations to the Library and Cabinet, from Dec. 1th to Jan. 1st, 

 1873 :— 



From 



Land and Water. Weekly The Editor. 



Nature. Weekly Ditto. 



Athenaeum. Weekly Ditto. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



Journal of the Linnean Society, No. 63 Ditto. 



On the Nomenclature of the Foraniinifera. By W. K. 



Parker, F.R.S., and Prof. R. Jones Authors. 



The U. S. War Department Weather Map. 3 copies .. U. S. War Department. 

 The Daily Bulletin of the U. S. War Department. 



3 copies Ditto. 



24 Slides of Starches Mr. Waldron Griffiths. 



Cabinet and 980 Slides Mrs. Farrants. 



The Rev. John George S. Nichol was elected a Fellow of the 

 Societj. 



Walter W. Eeeves, 

 A ssist. -Secretary, 



Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society. 



November 14th. — Ordinary Meeting. Mr. G. Scott, President, in 

 the chair. Dr. Ormerod, F.R.S., and Mr. W. Pnttick, were elected 

 ordinary members. 



Mr. Wonfor read a paper " On Certain Wingless Insects." 



After briefly sketching the changes through which insects passed 

 from the egg to the so-called perfect state, he showed that with the 

 exception of the pediculi and Thysanuridce all insects possessed either 

 four wings or their modifications ; the Jialteres, or poisers, of the dip- 

 tera being, in his opinion, only modified wings, while the fleas in 

 the place of wings had four scales. He then pointed out that among 

 moths, which were characterized by four large wings, were some in 

 which they were either so small as to be quite useless as organs of 

 flight, or altogether absent. 



One group of moths, the Liparidce, closely allied to very swift and 

 broad-winged moths, contained two species, called " Vaporers," from 

 their peculiar flight, in which while the males were good fliers, the 

 females were nearly wingless, and seldom crawled beyond their 

 cocoons, on which they laid their eggs and died. Wingless moths were 

 also found among the " geometers," earth-measurers, so named from 

 the mode of progression, and from the circumstance of looping their 

 bodies while walking called also loopers. Several examples of moths 

 among these were mentioned, and exhibited, in which it was shown 

 the wings of the females were either too short for the purpose of 

 flight, or were altogether wanting, some presenting the appearance of 

 spiders, for which they might well be taken. Another family, the 

 Psychidce, whose caterpillars made cases of pieces of grass, &c, which 

 they carried about with them, and which afterwards served the pur- 

 pose of cocoons, exhibited examples of females not only wingless, but 

 in one case footless, and without antennae. In this particular instance 

 the female laid her eggs inside the cocoon, and died ; while the first 

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