entomological society of london. xxhl 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c, 



Mr. Edward Doubleday exhibited some singular galls from 

 China, of which a cargo had been recently imported as an article 

 of commerce, each of which was about the size of a small egg, and 

 hollow, and contained a great number of very minute wingless 

 Homopterous insects. 



Mr. Evans exhibited a variety of insects from Kong Kong. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a number of specimens of Catocnla 

 sponsa and promissa, taken by sugar this summer in the New 

 Forest; s\&o Pamph'tla Actceon, from the burning cliff, V/eymouth; 

 Margarltia asinaUs ; Spilonota amcenana (a new species) ; Car- 

 pocapsa pupillana, &'c. from the Isle of Portland and the Chisel 

 bank ; Mcisorcus luxatus, and other Coleoptera ; also Acidalia pal- 

 lidaria, Catoptria citrina, and a species of PancaJia, (three Lepi- 

 doptera new to this country,) taken at Southend ; also the following 

 rare Coleoptera from the latter locaWty , Doltchosoma linearis, Ectnnis 

 aterrimus, Aphanist'ichus pusUlus, Thyamis 4:-pustulata, &c. ; also 

 a Gynandromorphous specimen of Colias Edusa, and a specimen 

 of Xy/ojjhasia Polyodon, found impaled on a thorn. 



Mr. A. White called the attention of the meeting to the re- 

 markable locust Petasida Ephippigera, described by him in Eyre's 

 Journal of Discovery in Central Australia (vol. i. p. 432, t. 4, f. 1), 

 which was also figured in Dr. Leichardt's recently published Journal 

 in Australia. He also corrected the synonymy of Saperda vUlosa 

 from New Zealand, which had been figured in the Fauna of New 

 Zealand, published in the Zoology of the Voyage of H.M. ships 

 Erebus and Terror, under the name of Hemona humilis. He also 

 exhibited some other insects from New Zealand, collected by Mr. 

 Colenso, two or three of which were not contained in the work 

 above mentioned. He also stated that the Hijmenoptera, Dtptera 

 and Hemiptera were very European in their appearance. He 

 also made some observations on the habits and history of spiders, 

 especially Actinopus cedijicatorms and Cteniza nidulans, one of the 

 nests of which, brought from Jamaica by Mr. Gosse, exhibited the 

 additional trap-door. 



Mr. Ingall exhibited a twig of poplar covered by the swollen 

 skins of Ichneumonized Aphides, together with specimens of the 

 parasites. 



Mr. Spence exhibited a new species of Nemoptera from New 

 Holland, for which he proposed the name A^. Huttii, in compli- 

 ment to Governor Hutt, from whom it had been received; likewise 

 specimens of the larvae oi A grot us segctum, which had proved very 

 destructive this year to the turnip crops. 



