PEOCEEDINGS 



OK THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



For the Year 1882. 



February 1, 1882. 

 H. T. Stainton, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 respective donors. 



The President made some remarks in acknowledgment of his re-election, 

 and appointed Messrs. Pascoe, Godman, and Lord Walsingham as Vice- 

 Presidents for the ensuing year. 



Election of Member. 

 Mr. Richard Todd (5, Princes Terrace, Bayswater, W.) was balloted for 

 and elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited a remarkable variety of Strenia clathrata, L., 

 captured at light at Fordiugbridge, Hants, by Mr. Stansfield R. Rake, seven 

 or eight years ago. The specimen was unicolorous purplish brown on the 

 upper side, with four small white spots near the costal margin of each fore 

 wing, and with five small white spots on each hind wing ; the under side 

 was similar. Mr. Fitch referred to Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1875, p. ii., and 

 Eutom. X. 241, for notices of similar varieties. 



The Secretary also exhibited, on behalf of Lieut.-Col. R. O'Hara, two 

 larvse of Anthocoridce, captured on flowers in Galway, and an anomalous 

 Coleopteron which lived in the nests of the common black ant of Bengal 

 [probably Formica comjjressa, Fabr.], but not as a captive; this Mr. 

 Waterhouse considered to belong to a new genus of CoUjdiidce allied to 

 Cossyphodes. 



B 



