ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. XV 



1th June, 1847. 



W. Spence, Esq., F.R.S,, President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



A very highly magnified engraved figure of the proboscis of 

 Musca vomitoria. Presented by Mr. Topping. 



Specimens of the Cochineal insect from Madeira. By Mr. 

 West wood. 



The Agricultural Gazette for May. By the Editor. 



Specimens of Lophyrus Pirn, with a drawing of the caterpillar, 

 several of which were captured on the Harold Hills near Everton, 

 Notts, at the middle of July, ISIG, creeping up the trunks of 

 some fir trees, upon the leaves of which they feed voraciously, 

 having a strong resinous smell. They formed cocoons on the 

 21st and 22nd of July, and the insects appeared at the end of 

 May, 1847. The caterpillar nearly resembles Hartig's figure of 

 the larva of Z. Pini, given in his Tab. IV. fig. 1. Presented by 

 Mr. Evans. 



Robert Davis, Esq., of Pimlico, was balloted for and elected a 

 Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a beautiful specimen of De'dephila 

 celerio, captured at Leicester ; and also of the larva, pupa and 

 imago of Mamestra nigricans, found on the banks of the Thames 

 below Gravesend. 



Captain Parry exhibited a box of Coleojjtera from the west coast 

 of tropical Africa, containing both sexes of Taurh'ina nireus and 

 many other rare species. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a number of very interesting Coleoptera 

 from Ceylon, being part of the collection of R. Templeton, Esq., 

 including a new species of Trictenoloma, &:c. &c. He also ex- 

 hibited from Colonel Hearsey's Collection many new and interest- 

 ing Indian insects, including anew species oi Salurnia, Parnassius 

 Jacqucmoniu ? &c. &c. 



Mr. Westwood also exhibited some potatoe plants, the under- 

 ground stem of which was attacked by the prevalent disease, 

 from his own garden at Hammersmith, none of which were in- 

 fested with Aphides ; the original set being entire and quite sound 

 as well as the leaves, which would of course be the parts first 

 attacked were the disease produced by the attacks of Aphides, 



