ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. XVU 



5lhJuly, 1817. 

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



Donations. 



The Agricultural Magazine for May. Presented by the Editor. 



The London Geological Journal, No. iii. By Edw. Charles- 

 worth, Esq., the Editor thereof. 



Specimen Anatomico-physiologicum de Systemate Uropoietico, 

 auctore G. Ph. Groshans. Lugd. Batav. 1847. By the 

 Editor. 



John Charles Bowring, Esq., of Hong Kong, and 

 Lewis B. Bowring, Esq., of Bancoorah, near Burdwar, in 

 Bengal, were elected Corresponding Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. White, on behalf of Mr. Foxcroft, exhibited specimens of 

 ArgyroJepia ceneana, recently captured at Wormwood Scrubs in 

 considerable numbers, the habitat of which had been subsequently 

 destroyed by a dealer in order to enhance the value of his 

 specimens. 



Mr. F. Bond exhibited specimens o^ Psyche fusca in its different 

 states. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a specimen of /Egeria apiformis 

 recently disclosed from the chrysalis, the wings of which were 

 considerably imbricated with fine black scales. It had been 

 reared with others in an abele tree in Oxfordshire. Mr. Douglas 

 stated that this fact had been noticed in the Entomological Maga- 

 zine by Mr. Henry Doubleday. 



Mr. Westwood also exhibited specimens of Helop/iorusfennicus, 

 which had been observed eating off the leaves of young turnips 

 during the night, but only in certain parts of a field where different 

 kinds of manures (spread in rows) crossed each other. (See 

 Gardeners' Ciironicle, 1847, p. 442.) So strictly had they pre- 

 served this peculiarity that they ate across more than 100 rows, 

 and stopped at the very row where the manures were changed. 

 Messrs. Spence and Stephens stated that these insects generally 

 feed on water plants : Mr. Waterhouse had generally found them 

 on land, rarely in water; Mr. Edward Doubleday had found 

 H. tuberculatus feeding on decayed turnips; Dr. Schaum had 



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